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See all Organizations and their Status as an educational resource.

What do you mean by "Status as an educational resource"?

The majority of these sites are donated to us by organizations or individuals who curate their own repositories of educational resources. Because they have their own reasons for the inclusion of these sites, we also try to include most of them. However, in doing so, we are sometimes left with sites that may not be educational. To remedy this, we mark all sites with a status. There are two: good or questionable.

What does "good" and "questionable" mean?

Generally, for the reasons noted above, we let most sites fall under the status of "good" if they offer some type of resource that can be deemed educational, or if they are organizations promoting innovation in education. In some cases, however, it is unclear whether a site is valuable as a resource; we mark these sites as "questionable". For all questionable sites, there is usually an explanation of why it was flagged in the notes below the info box. We invite you to flag the status of any of these websites, as long as you include your reasons for doing so in the notes. The more feedback we get, the better idea we will have of the various organizations and resources that are valuable to educators and students.

This is a property of type String.

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-This is a property of type [[Has type::String|String]].
+'''[[:Category:Organization | ODEPO Home]]''' ::    '''[[:Category:Organization/FAQ | ODEPO FAQ]]'''
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+See all [[#Organizations and their Status as an educational resource | Organizations and their Status as an educational resource]].
-The allowed values for this property are:
+=== What do you mean by "Status as an educational resource"? ===
-* [[Allows value:=good]]
-* [[Allows value:=questionable]]
-* [[Allows value:=broken link]]
+The majority of these sites are donated to us by organizations or individuals who curate their own repositories of educational resources. Because they have their own reasons for the inclusion of these sites, we also try to include most of them. However, in doing so, we are sometimes left with sites that may not be educational. To remedy this, we mark all sites with a status. There are two: good or questionable.
-=== What do you mean by Status? ====
+=== What does "good" and "questionable" mean? ===
-The majority of these sites were donated to us by organizations or individuals who curate their own repositories of educational resources. Because there is always a reason for the inclusion of these sites by them, we have also included most of these sites. However, in doing so, we have also included some sites that may not be educational. To remedy this, we have marked certain sites with a status---as pertaining to their status as an educational resource.
+Generally, for the reasons noted above, we let most sites fall under the status of "good" if they offer some type of resource that can be deemed educational, or if they are organizations promoting innovation in education. In some cases, however, it is unclear whether a site is valuable as a resource; we mark these sites as "questionable". For all questionable sites, there is usually an explanation of why it was flagged in the notes below the info box. We invite you to flag the status of any of these websites, as long as you include your reasons for doing so in the notes. The more feedback we get, the better idea we will have of the various organizations and resources that are valuable to educators and students.
-=== What does "good" and "questionable" mean? ===
-Generally, for the reasons noted above, we let most sites fall under the status of "good" if they offered some type of resource that could be deemed educational. In some cases, however, it was unclear whether a site was even educational; we marked these sites as "questionable". For all questionable sites, there is usually an explanation of why it was marked so in the notes below the info box.
+This is a property of type [[Has type::String|String]].
-=== What does "broken link" mean? ===
+The allowed values for this property are:
+* [[Allows value:=good]]
-Because the internet is always changing, urls are in constant flux. Sometimes a site is under repair and the links on the site don't work one day, but work the next. Since we have no way of knowing if these links will work in the future, we flagged all sites with broken links, especially if they appeared to offer educational resources via those links. Of course, we invite you to change the status if those links now work.
+* [[Allows value:=questionable]]
+== Organizations and their Status as an educational resource ==