Filamentality

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http//www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil
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Todays Presentation

• What is Filamentality?
• Why you might use it?
• How to use it?
• How others are using it?

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What Is Filamentality ?

• A fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that
• guides you through picking a topic,
• searching the Web,
• gathering good Internet sites, and
• turning Web resources into learning activities

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More Details

• Prompts you for Web site URLs, Titles,
  Introductions, Questions, etc.
• Online support helps you pick a topic, search,
  write good questions, etc.
• Builds the Web page for you posts it on the Web
  for FREE.

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Who Should Use It?

• Teachers
• Librarians / Media Specialists
• Trainers
• Students
• Parents
• Internet Novices
• Web Authors (for rapid prototyping)

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Filamentality is Easy to Use

• Choose one of 5 formats based on your learning
  goal. (Its best to start with a Hotlist.)
• Start a new topic.
• Gather and add links.
• Scaffold the links with a good description,
  instructions, questions, etc.

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Assemble resources

• Add web resources to the current learning
  environment.
• Choose fromHotlistScrapbook

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Hotlist

• Save your learners hours of aimless searching
• Provide a list of resources related to your topic
• The easiest format to make
• The starting point for all the other formats

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Hotlist

• China on the Net
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/hotlist.html
  
• Youth crime
• http//www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listcrimeanh
  o.html

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Scrapbook

• Provide learners with variets of media related to
  a topic (photographs, maps, sound clips, video
  text etc.)
• Create a Multimedia Scrapbook and prepare to post
  it on the Web.

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Scrapbook

• Exploring China
• http//www.filamentality.com/wired/China/scrapbook
  .html

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Promote learning

• Create a totally web-based activityTreasure
  HuntSubject SamplerWeb Quest

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Treasure Hunt

• Develop factual knowledge on a subject
• Find web pages that hold information
• Pose one key question for each web resource
• Add a culminating question

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Treasure Hunt

• Black History Past to Present http//www.kn.pacb
  ell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html

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Subject sampler

• Connect students to the chosen topic
• Students are asked to respond to the web-based
  activities from a personal perspective
• Motivate students to learn the content

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Subject sampler

• Exploring Chinese Culture http//www.kn.pacbell.
  com/wired/China/sampler.html

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Web Quest

• Presents students with task or problem to solve
• Students work in groups
• A student has a particular role or task to master
• Synthetize learning and summarize
• Students present their interpretation

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Web Quest

• Look Who's Paying the Bill!
• http//www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/democracy/debtques
  t.html
• Youth crime
• http//www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/webyouthcrho
  .html

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How Others Use Filamentality

• Use the Filamentality Search to see what others
  have created including
• Web Activities
• Student Work
• Collaborations
• Training (User Guides and handouts)

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Any Questions??
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