Websites are really shaping up now.

This week Erin and Buffy visited our classes to provide feedback on the current drafts of the sites.  Among other things, we learned about 

• Clarifying and being proud of the student-authored nature of our sites, and the fact that they are based on a limited but valuable set of interviews and documents
  
• Introducing home pages in a way that would clarify Community Service Learning and link it to Volunteerism
• Introducing all pages in a way that orients readers to their purpose, audience and their context within the website 
  
• Making good use of our site titles and page titles within the opening sentences, and similarly explaining and using images
• Providing charts, lists, and visual metaphors and other ways of breaking down information into subcategories
• Focusing our April 14 presentations on what we learned "about" CSL from research (themes/sources overview), how we organized and visually designed our sites (only 2 mins!), what we learned "through" CSL methods in 463, and our recommendations for the future of CSL locally

Buffy and Erin provided "blurbs" about their organizations and themselves so that we are using approved information on our sites.