Filamentality:Creating Web-based Activities by KacyC.

1. Creating Web-based Activities for a Classroom by KacyC., .

2. Today’s Presentation • Who Should Use It? • Who uses Fil.? • What is Filamentality? • What Fila. does? • How to use it : Activity Formats • Creating a Hotlist • Guided Tour • Wrap-up

3. Who Should Use ? • Teachers • Librarians • Media Specialists • Trainers • Students • Parents • Internet newbies • Web Authors

4. answers two (2) questions: How do I actually • use the Web in the classroom? • make and post the Webpages on the Internet?

5. Idea behind • “Filaments” - fine individual strands of a spider’s web. • “Mentality” - the brain’s thinking capacity. • So, “Filaments" of the Web combined with a learner's “Mentality.” • So...'Filamentality” helps you spin pieces of the Web into your own Web-based learning activities.

6. What does? • Creates a Web-based Activity that targets a specific kind of Learning. • Blends learning goals with the numerous Web resources. • Lets you focus on Instruction rather than HTML & graphics. • Built in Support : guides you along the way to create a web-based activity - like prompting for websites, URLs, titles, introductions, questions, etc. • Builds the Web page for you & posts it on the Web for FREE.

7. It is a fill in the blanks Interactive Website that guides through the complete Instructional design process: • Selecting a topic • Searching the web • Gathering good Internet sites • Turning Web resources into Learner Activities i.e. creation of your own very Web Page.

8. Assemble Resources • Promote Learning

10. The purpose of a Hotlist is to provide a good list of resources , internet websites, related to your topic.

11. Multimedia Scrapbook helps learners explore your collection of exciting variety of multimedia links ( pics., maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos….) related to a topic and decide which resources they prefer and create something new.

12. The Scrapbook allows you to categorize links by type of resource (for example: background info, news, quotations, maps, photographs, statistics, sound files, video clips). • Students then download or copy and paste these scraps into something new: PowerPoint presentation, newsletter, collage, bulletin board, brochure, web page, etc. • The Scrapbook offers a student-centered approach by allowing students to focus on the information and media that interest them. • Adding a title, introduction, and a focus question are the final steps to create your Scrapbook. • You might find it helpful to see a professionally created Subject Scrapbook for ideas. If you don't see any links in the Add Questions section below, you need to add them. Use "Add Links" on the Navigation Menu below. • Fil. helps you create a Multimedia Scrapbook and prepare to post it on the Web. Mentality Tips: Scrapbook Teacher Guide | Guide to Good Questions | Grabbing Images from the Internet | Filamentality Formats

13. Treasure Hunt is like a hotlist, but it develops factual knowledge (questions) based on the content from the sites. • It prompts to add questions ,add a titleand an introduction for each link you've selected • At the end, you can add a culminating question that ties it all together. • Effective questions will prepare learners to pay attention to important details and uncover hard facts as they explore the sites you've selected.

14. Subject Samplers connect students to the chosen topic by presenting a • intriguing websites- multimedia links, • questions based on the content from the sites • how they feel and react to it. • It’s more complex than a Treasure hunt. • It personally engages, creates interests and motivates students to learn the content.

15. WebQuest - a complex activity : • groups stds. with a challenging task, activity, scenario, or • problems to solve involving multiple perspectives • group collaboration • Final project of your choosing. • Within the groups, each student or pair of students have a particular role, task, or perspective to master. They become experts on one aspect of a topic. • Students must then synthesize their learning by completing a final task.”

16. HOTLIST Creating a • Using the power of the Internet for learning is linking to the sites that you find most useful. • Save hours of aimless surfing. ( not an efficient use of class time). • Easiest of the other formats. • Fil. helps, completes and prepares your Hotlist to post on the Web. • You get an opportunity to customize your Hotlist by adding a Title, an Introduction, and Sorting your links. • Examples: • http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listieltska.html • http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/logold-educators.html • http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listenglishka.html

17. HOTLIST

23. Tutorial : Guided Tourhttp://inst.pcssd.org/insttech/OR/ORDocuments/filtour.pdf • Instructions on Filamentality home :http://www.kn.att.com//wired/fil/index.html • After logging in Instructions found on each page, in each section. • To publish a page you, click on the format twice. • Filamentality is pretty easy to use and most people “figure it out as they go,” but if you find it difficult, you may prefer to use one of these free web page building tools. • http://www.weebly.com/; • http://www.simplesite.com/; • http://zunal.com/; http://www.wix.com

24. Wrap-up • An easy to figure-out website that let’s you create 5 formats for web-based learning activities. • Creates a Web-based learning page that targets a specific kind of learning. • creates Web pages without knowing HTML. • immediately posts your Web-pages on the Internet.

26. References http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listenglishka.html