The Federal Judiciary’s website, www.uscourts.gov, today unveils a host of enhancements.
The site has been redesigned to make it more attractive, accessible, and useful to its diverse audience of users. The improvements further the website’s mission of increasing public interest, awareness, and understanding of the federal court system and its functions, and to serve as a source for disseminating Federal Judiciary information to the public.
The website is a primary source of information on the structure, function, and operations of the federal courts. It plays an important role in how the Judiciary communicates to the public, with useful and timely information for students, news media, attorneys, academics, government officials, associations, and others – both in the United States and worldwide.
The new design reflects the input of a wide range of users who expressed their needs, preferences and interests during usability testing and focus groups.
Among the objectives of the redesign are a more dynamic website that can integrate emerging web technologies, such as RSS, podcasts, and multimedia.
Podcasts in a Pinch are video and audio narrated by judges and students. They are geared for high school teachers, students, and interested adults. In addition to the podcasts, a featured resource is an explanation and interactive exercises about the process of confirming nominees for the Supreme Court of the United States and other positions on the federal bench.
The podcasts, and classroom-ready information about the confirmation of Supreme Court nominees, are featured in the Educational Outreach Resources section of the federal courts' newly redesigned website at www.uscourts.gov. Podcasts in a Pinch stimulate involvement, information sharing, and inspiration among high school teachers and their students. For teachers, the podcasts can be a quick infusion of new media to stimulate classroom conversations.
Shirl's note: This new stuff is all well and good, but the site seems to load much more slowly now; Flash is the likely culprit.
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