New Site Design and More
Face lift for the MIP website, other news, and resources
Earlier this month we quietly introduced a new site menu and method of organization to the Mental Immunity Project Website. Here we’ll give an overview of the changes and why we made them.
The MIP site has grown into an online library of resources for cultivating MI, and this growth necessitated a reorganization of its content. Previously, the site menu had four sections: About, Guide (link to our Guide page along with a drop-down to select a particular section of the guide), Resources (a drop-down menu for various site pages), and Act (another drop-down menu).
We hope these changes improve the user experience on the site and help everyone better access the information they’re looking for.
What we chose to do was to make the site menu simpler by focusing on two of our main audiences: educators and learners. In addition to this, we’ve re-emphasized our Start Here page by adding it to the site menu.
The new site menu keeps About and Act, but instead of Guide and Resources, you’ll find, Start, Teach, and Learn, all of which are simple links. Essentially, we opted to trade off the convenience of page access for navigational simplicity. To do so, we created two new pages: the For Educators page1 and the Learn page. These two pages act as hubs for navigating to other parts of the site.
Additionally, to better accommodate other audiences, and to make it easier for people who don’t know where to start and may be coming to the site via a link to a page other than the home page, we’ve added a link to our Start Here page in the site menu. The Start Here page has also been updated for simplicity and ease of navigation, particularly with regard to the “How MIP Can Help You” section.
The new “How MIP Can Help You” section of the Start Here page is much more streamlined. In the old version, you had to click a button for each audience category in order to see suggested pages in a pop-up window. The buttons are still there for the Educators and Learners audiences, but instead of opening a pop-up with a list, they open up those new pages. For the other audience sections, there’s simply a list of key links, no pop-up windows.
We hope these changes improve the user experience on the site and help everyone better access the information they’re looking for.
Let us know what you think in the comments!
NAMLE Media Literacy Resource Showcase on October 5
On Saturday, October 5 at 2 pm ET, Mental Immunity Project Operations Director, Luke Johnson, will be giving a 15-minute presentation for NAMLE’s Media Literacy Resource Showcase. He’ll be showcasing the What Works resource and other resources we have on offer for educators (all for FREE).
This is a FREE event and many other organizations will also be presenting too.
Resources
From ClearerThinking.org a fun quiz to see how rational you are.
Take the Quiz.
From the News Literacy Project:
[FOR EDUCATORS] Grade band expectations for news literacy
[FOR VOTERS] Misinformation Dashboard: Election 2024
What We’re Reading
Youth Perspectives on AI in the Classroom from NAMLE
Reality Check Commentary: The Satire Trap from NewsGuard’s Reality Check
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accessed via “Teach” in the site menu