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Potential Answers: Assessing Treehouse Page Design and Content
Lisa Schwartz
- Both Weeds in Rylan’s Yard, and What Makes a Primate a Primate follow all of the basic content and design guidelines (see Treehouse Page Design and Content and/or the top portion of the View Assessing Standard Treehouse Page Design and Content Guidelines Assessing Standard ToL Page Design and Content Guidelines Worksheet.
- Reasons that these pages do not follow standard ToL content and design guidelines:
- A Year of Life in Joshua Tree National Park
- There is no page title.
- The page is not attached to a group of organisms.
- Learning information is not complete.
- Color definitely detracts from the page content.
- Color makes the page look disorganized and unclear.
- Text is formatted with color, made bold and italicized with no clear meaning.
- Headings are not used to separate page sections.
- There are no references.
- There is only one internet link.
- Our Endangered Friend the Pygmy Owl
- Learning information is not complete.
- Color detracts from the page content.
- The small size of the text makes it hard to read.
- Text is formatted with color and made bold with no apparent reason.
- There are no references.
- There is only one internet link.
- Improvements that could still be made:
- A Year of Life in Joshua Tree National Park
- References could be added.
- More internet links could be added.
- Image captions could be expanded upon.
- Our Endangered Friend the Pygmy Owl
- References could be added
- Another link could be added
- Learning information could be completed.
- Information supporting and expanding on the idea of how moving pygmy owls to a national forest may help them survive could be added.
- More media illustrating the page content could be added and the captions could be elaborated upon.
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Lisa Schwartz
University of Arizona
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Page copyright © 2005 Lisa Schwartz
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