1. Spinning Your Own Web Activity
Filamentality
Spinning Your Own Web Activity

2. Presented by Sandy Turner SCILnet - Fort Lewis College
Adapted from Filamentality Presentation by Jodi Reed & Tom March - Pacific Bell Education First

3. What you will learn today:
What is Filamentality
Why you might use it
How to use it
How others are using it

4. Some questions...
How do I actually use the Web in the classroom or library?
How do I make Web pages and post them on the Internet?

5. Filamentality One possible answer...

6. 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 and graphics

7. Okay, Okay... we’ll tell you in real English:
provides you with a web-activity template that prompts you for Web site info., titles, introductions, questions, etc.
builds the Web page for you and posts it on the Web
provides online support that helps you pick a topic, search, write good questions, etc.

8. Who is supposed to use it?
teachers
students
media specialists/librarians
technology trainers for schools
Internet newbies
Web authors (for rapid prototyping)

9. Hit me over the head with it one more time!!!
You can create a Web-based learning activity that targets a specific kind of learning!
You get to create Web pages without knowing HTML!
Your page is immediately posted on the Internet (that’s right, you get your very own www-dot-thingy)!

10. The Filamentality Process:
start with a topic
choose a format based on your learning goal(s)
gather links
scaffold the links with instructions, questions, etc.
see the “guided tour” once you are in Filamentality

11. Filamentality Formats:
Hotlist
Treasure Hunt
Sampler
Scrapbook
WebQuest
see guides for details

12. How others are using Filamentality...
Web activities for students (check out the Filamentality registry)
Training (see guide for Trainers)
Student-created and published work
Collaborative activities

13. So what’s the idea behind the word “Filamentality”?
“Filaments” are the fine individual strands of a spider’s web.
“Mentality” is the brain’s thinking capacity.
So...”Filamentality” helps you spin pieces of the Web into your own Web-based learning activities.

14. Before we begin “the spin”, return to the tutorial:
Use the “Go” menu above and see if you can go all the way back to the Filamentality Module Intro page (should be toward the bottom of the menu)
If you have lost the this page, go to the following address: