OK, now this started as one of those "where have you been all my life?" moments. What a great idea--I can see immediately a great application for any subject specialist. As a matter of fact I was so jazzed I added my first searchroll (http://rollyo.com/ecrowe/islamic_art/) to my art history web page. Go to the section on "Middle East & Islamic"--I used that because it had a decent number of sites listed, and a lot of art students take classes in this topic.
The biggest downside is those [expletive deleted] "sponsored links." That kind of trashes the whole concept of "trusted links," doesn't it? I tried a search on Hagia Sophia and what shows up as the very first link? A site called 1MillionPapers.com that offers to sell you a term paper on Hagia Sophia! I hope the students do the plagiarism tutorial first. Might be useful as a way to discuss evaluation & ethical use of information, however.
If not for that very serious downside, this would be a perfect service. I'm so irritated at them I might write a letter...
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