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Today’s Presentation What is Filamentality? Why you might use it? 5/00 Today’s Presentation What is Filamentality? Why you might use it? How to use it? How others are using it? Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank, don’t need to know any HTML solution that guides you through a simple process for making a web page. At the end of the process, you will have a URL which you can share with the world and a web page you can return to and edit whenever you want. You can use Filamentality for organizing your bookmarks or for creating online activities for learners. You can use it at home, in the library, or in the classroom.

FAQ’s How do I actually use the Web in the classroom or library? 5/00 FAQ’s How do I actually use the Web in the classroom or library? Find good sites: Blue Web’n Model Activities: Filamentality Formats Searching for China Using the web in the classroom or the library starts with finding good web sites. To find the very best, use Blue Web’n, an online library of internet sites that can be searched by grade level, subject, and activity format. Use these sites and Filamentality to create web pages for learners based on your learning goal: assembling resources or producing knowledge. Filamentality lets you create a variety of activity formats (Hotlist, Treasure Hunt, Scrapbook, Sampler, WebQuest). “Searching for China” provides examples of professionally done activities that were developed and customized over the course of time.

FAQ’s How do I make Web pages and post them on the Internet? 5/00 FAQ’s How do I make Web pages and post them on the Internet? Find good sites Cut and paste the Title, URL, and a brief description of the site Select “Hotlist” from the Navigation Menu Filamentality takes out all of the guess work. All you need to do is find good sites and then cut and paste the Title, Location (URL), and a brief description of the site into the blanks spaces provided for you. You can add as many links as you’d like. You can even organize your links into five different categories (highly recommended for larger hotlists!). Each time you click on the Navigation Menu to Add Links of Edit Links, you save your work. When you’re done, you can use the Navigation Menu to spin a Hotlist, Treasure Hunt, Scrapbook, Sampler, or WebQuest.

5/00 What Is ? It helps you combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality.” The name “Filamentality” comes from Filamentality’s original author, Tom March. Filamentality is now trademarked and fully owned by Pacific Bell.

What Is ? A fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that 5/00 What Is ? 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.

What Does Filamentality Do? 5/00 What Does Filamentality Do? Blends your learning goals with the many resources available on the Web. Guides you through the complete instructional design process. Lets you focus on instruction, instead of HTML & graphics. Because you are guided through the process and are provided with fill-in-the-blank fields, all you need to do is concentrate on the content you want covered in your activity. The technical aspects are left to us.

5/00 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. You don’t have to worry about downloading the file and then figuring out how to load it on your network/server. You don’t have to ask anyone to upload changes when you edit your page because you can access/edit your page online whenever you want. Pages remain on our server for about one year. After that, it will automatically be removed UNLESS you have gone back and cycled through the Filamentality process. You don’t even have to make changes, you just have to go through the process in order to change your file creation date. You cannot add graphics or any other media. If you really want to customize your page, you need to download it to your server.

Who Should Use It? Teachers Librarians / Media Specialists Trainers 5/00 Who Should Use It? Teachers Librarians / Media Specialists Trainers Students Parents Internet Novices Web Authors (for rapid prototyping) Students can generate online bibliographies for reports. Parents can make a page of safe Internet sites for the family. Librarians can make “webliographies” and path finders for library users. Teachers can progress from making simple lists of good resources to creating complex learning activities that promote higher learning and problem-solving.

Filamentality is Easy to Use 5/00 Filamentality is Easy to Use Choose a format based on your learning goal. (It’s best to start with a Hotlist.) Start a new topic. Gather and add links. Scaffold the links with a good description, instructions, questions, etc. All of these steps are demonstrated in the Filamentality Guided Tour using still graphics of the various web pages that users will encounter. Start the Filamentality Guided Tour from the KNE homepage by clicking on Filamentality and then click on Filamentality Tour.

5/00 What is your Goal? Do you want to provide good resources for students/library users, or are you trying to create some kind of learning activity? ASSEMBLE RESOURCES: Searching the Internet can be frustrating and time-consuming. You can save time by providing links to sites that you know are worthwhile and that contain the content you want users to see. Hotlist: simply provides a list of links and is also a good starting point for creating other Filamentality formats. Scrapbook: provides a student-centered approach in which students explore and select web-based photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, etc. and then download them to make a newsletter, slide presentation, collage, bulletin board, or web page. PROMOTE LEARNING: Filamentality can integrate the Internet into your activities and goes beyond merely providing a list of resources. Treasure Hunt: helps students learn factual information by asking specific questions and then challenging them to locate answers from the sites that you have selected. Subject Sampler: presents learners with a smaller number of intriguing web sites organized around aspects of a main topic. Students are asked to respond to the web-based activities from a personal perspective. WebQuest: presents students with a challenging task, scenario, or problem to solve. Students work in groups, each has a particular role, task, or perspective to master. They become experts on one aspect of a topic. When the roles come together, students must synthesize their learning by completing a summarizing act such as e-mailing congressional representatives or presenting their interpretation to real world experts on the topic.

How Others Use Filamentality 5/00 How Others Use Filamentality Web Activities Check out the registry!! Training See Teacher, Librarian or Trainer guides Student Work Collaborations REGISTRY: You can search the registry to see what others have created by clicking on “Wanna see what other Filamentality users have done? TRAINING : You can get to the guides by click User Guides from the Filamentality homepage. Several handouts are available from the Guide for Trainers section including Filamentality Facts, Filamentality Flow Sheet, a pdf version of the Guided Tour, and this PowerPoint presentation. BRAINSTORM TOPICS: There are 2 brainstorm activities embedded into the User Guides. Check them out and see what you think ( http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/teacher_ideas.html )

Any Questions?? http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil 5/00 Any Questions?? http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil (Filamentality Tour)