Evaluation

Resource Website

For this assignment, I decided to evaluate a website that I allow my students to use when searching for information for their informative speeches. This site is www. askjeeves.com, and it also has a kids' site too, called www.ajkids.com. I prefer to use askjeeves.com as it returns results that are full of information and mature enough for seventh and eighth graders to use.

I went to askjeeves.com and typed in the following question? Where I can find more information about Bermuda? It came back with four results!

Bermuda Department of Tourism

Bermuda Travel Information , by Netweb, a Bermuda ISP

Welcome Bermuda by Patricia Ann Taggett

My Personal Bermuda by Michael Gombert

My Evaluation

**Before settling on one web site to evaluate, I did find that all of the above links worked. I decided to focus on the website from the Department of Tourism

Can move from page to page easily
Navigation on this site is very easy, as it has frames and also a site map.
Good use of graphics and color
This site is beautiful, the beginning starts out with a wonderful flash rendition of flying in to Bermuda, and each section, Dining, Weddings, and Where to Stay, etc. has pictures that match the information contained within.
Additional resource links are included
There are numerous links that take visitors to places outside of the page. These include different florists in the wedding page, individual shipwreck descriptions on the What to Do page, and links to individual places to stay.
Information is useful
The information in this site is very useful as it allows you to plan a family trip, a business trip or a wedding on the island. It even has a great feature that allows you to plan your own itinerary.
Rich content will likely be revisited
Once the information is found and used for either a report or a trip, I don't think that the site will be visited again, unless to provide the searcher with wonderful memories.
How this web site compares in content to similar web sites
I compared this web site to the Bermuda Travel Information site, and found this one to have more extensive content. It provides direct government links to getting forms (such as an application for marriage) and contains information on such things as weather, electricity, currency, water and transport.
All links work and have been kept current
All of the links work, however some of them under the individual links (beaches, hotels, florists) are still under construction
Contact person is stated with e-mail address
There are two points of contact on this web page. One is direct e-mail and the other is for brochure!

Overall, I think this is a wonderful web site which would provide comprehensive information to my students am very happy with the information that askjeeves.com finds and will continue using it in the future.

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