The Gordon Rule requires students to write 3,000 words in order to receive liberal studies credit. For the Gordon Rule, you are required to write ten, 300 word Ancient and Medieval history related web site reviews. These Gordon Rule reviews will be graded S/U. S grades count 10 points and U grades count 0 . Each week one review will be due at the beginning of each Wednesday's class. Ten reviews will be combined to count for a potential 100 points. The entire Gordon Rule assignment will count 10% of your final grade. All reviews must be typed or computer printed in courier 12 font. They must be doubled spaced with one inch margins on all sides with page numbers. There will be no extensions on paper deadlines. For each class day that one of your papers is late, a penalty of one letter grade will be levied on that paper. Your papers will be graded for content, spelling, grammar, punctuation, language, organization, originality and ability to follow instructions. To meet the State requirement for the Gordon Rule, you must make a C-, or better, on these papers to pass the course and get liberal studies credit. If you do not do these assignments, you cannot get any better than a D in the course, regardless of test grades.
Assignment
Your assignment each week is to go to the lecture section of the course syllabus and click on the internet sites that have been assigned for that week. You must then write a 300 word review on one of the sites, telling me which of the sites you liked best and what kind of information is available on the site that you picked. You should address the following questions.
Name: Labyrinth
Address: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html
Authors: Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine
Primary Sources: Yes
Useful: To anyone interested in Medieval Studies
The Labyrinth is one of the most amazing history site on the WWW (World Wide Web). Stored on the server at Georgetown University, the Labyrinth is a global information network that provides free access to electronic resources in medieval studies. This site provides easy-to-use menus and hyperlinks that connect to databases, services, and electronic texts on other servers around the world.
On the index page of the Labyrinth, there are many different options for searching information. At the top of the page is a hyper links to the Labyrinth Library. In the Labyrinth Library the user can search by language, country and period. There are additional links to monographs, articles, journals, reviews and biographies. The last topic in the Labyrinth Library focuses on "Special Topics." Subjects covered in this area include Arthurian Studies, Medieval Women and Vikings to name a few.
The second major section of the Labyrinth Library is Pedagogical Resources. Under this section the user can link to course materials, language learning aids, software and multimedia, and general resources on using the web for teaching. This section is especially valuable for teachers preparing to teach using the World Wide Web. The third and fourth sections of the Labyrinth are links to professional information and organizations. These sections of the Labyrinth would only be useful to advanced Medieval historians.
The last topic on the index page of the Labyrinth is Daedalus's Guide to the Web. In this section there are hyper link to the WWW Virtual Library, search engines, universities on the web, and citing electronic resources. This section has a tremendous amount of possibilities. For example, the link to universities on the web connects the user to hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world.
The Labyrinth webpage illustrates the enormous potential of the World Wide Web. For the first time in human history it is possible to sit in the comfort of one's own home and search virtually millions of historical documents, biographies, articles and images. The Labyrinth webpage is highly recommend for anyone interested in Medieval history or the power of the World Wide Web.
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