Importance of Link Viability
Curating online content for 23 years from a school website to Wikispaces to my own website L. Houle's Ed Tools, as well as my LiveBinders, it's been important that I keep all shared links up-to-date. There is nothing worse than following a link and finding it no longer viable. Here on my site's home page and under each individual resource page I keep my viewers notified when I last updated and/or verified links. With my website integrated with my LiveBinders viewers can always see that information along with checking my binder descriptions.
Since it's not possible to check links within a binder, other than visiting each tab, my webpage links are my means for checking viability. Anyone can design the means for checking resource link viability by creating a list whether it be in a doc published to the web or a list on a Google site, etc. can use one of these 3 to verify and keep things up-to-date.
When a site does not respond, before you delete consider testing the URL with one or both of these sites I use to investigate. |