1. A fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil

2. 2 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Why use Filamentality? Let’s you select the sites your users will explore It’s quick and easy You can create several different formats You can edit and update your web page We serve it for at least one year for free

3. 3 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Getting Started Go to http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/ Click “Start a New Page” button Let every Filamentality page completely load

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5. 5 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Basic Information Main Topic: Keep this short. It’s not the title; it’s the subject of your activity page It will be used as default text throughout Filamentality including sub-title introduction, and other fields What’s the main topic of your page?

6. 6 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Basic Information Username and Password: Choose a username and password that makes sense to you and is easy to remember Do not use odd characters and symbols which might cause Filamentality to fail Your username and password can never be changed, so choose carefully

7. 7 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Spin This Thing Click “Spin This Thing” to save your information

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9. 9 Check Basic Information After you click on the “Spin This Thing” button, you have a chance to double- check and edit the information you entered Use an email address that you feel comfortable posting on the Internet You could print out the page with your username and password and save it

10. 10 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Add Links Click on the navigation menu at the bottom of the Filamentality page to “Add Links”

11. 11 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Add Links Cut and paste the URL, Title, and Description (optional) into the correct fields Keep clicking “Add Links” to insert links in groups of three until you are done Location (required) Title (required) Description (recommend) http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/tips/search_tips.html Filamentality Search Tips Provides a brief description and links to several popular search engines to help you locate good sites.

12. 12 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Edit Links Click “Edit Links” to check your links Use this page to periodically update your links

13. 13 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Edit Links Use the hyperlink to open a new window and make sure your link works Check for typos in the title and description Location Title Description http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/tips/search_tips.html Filamentality Search Tips Provides a brief description and links to several popular search engines to help you locate good sites. Filamentality Search Tips

14. 14 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Edit Links To completely eliminate a link, simply delete the information in the "Location" field Location Title Description Filamentality Search Tips Provides a brief description and links to several popular search engines to help you locate good sites. Filamentality Search Tips http://www. /tips/search_tips.html

15. 15 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Hotlist Once you are satisfied with your links, click “Hotlist” to save your work and start your activity page

16. 16 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Hotlist A Hotlist provides a good list of resources related to your topic A Hotlist is the easiest format to make A Hotlist is the starting point for all other formats (treasure hunt, scrapbook, sampler, webquest)

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18. 18 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Customize Your Hotlist Add Your Title:Your title can be creative, descriptive, or simply the subject/grade you teach. You can come back and edit this later. The Wonders of Filamentality

19. 19 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Customize Your Hotlist Add Your Introduction: Edit, delete, or add to the default text to let your students know what they can expect from this page or activity. In addition to using books and magazines to find out about Using Filamentality, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links below will get you started.

20. 20 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Customize Your Hotlist You might want to provide assignment instructions, due dates, and background info that you think is necessary Take advantage of this opportunity to create your own unique text Once again, you can always come back later and edit

21. 21 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Categorize Your Links After you customize your Title and Intro, you can categorize your links into 6 different categories or subsections Type your categories into the boxes provided

22. 22 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Categorize Your Links If you don't categorize your links, they will appear under the default heading "Internet Resources" Categorized links will appear underneath “Internet Resources”

23. 23 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Hide Links If you don't want some of your links to appear on a page, you can “deselect” them A checked box means link will appear Filamentality Search Tips

24. 24 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Finishing Your Hotlist Colors (Optional): You can customize your page by choosing background, text, link, and visited link colors Let’s skip this and finish creating our hotlist. You can return to this page and change your colors later if you want

25. 25 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Finishing Your Hotlist Click on Hotlist below to save your changes and post your Filamentality page on the Internet If you click on any other format, you will be starting a new Filamentality page!!

26. 26 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listusingfilw.html

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28. 28 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Finishing Your Hotlist Your Hotlist is now on the Internet You can click your URL to see your page on the Internet You are also given a “Quick Look” at your Hotlist You can use the navigation menu to add more links, edit links, or edit text if you don’t like what you see.

29. 29 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Finishing Your Hotlist We host your Hotlist on our server for free for at least 12 months past the date it was built Your file can stay longer than 12 months if you login and update your page before it expires

30. 30 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Additional Tips Use the Filamentality search to see what others have created http://www.kn.att.com/kne_search.html#filFilamentality search Once you have a good hotlist, you can create one of each of the other formats from the hotlist and it will automatically populate with your links intact

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32. 32 AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All rights reserved. Thank You! You can find this and other Filamentality support materials at http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/handouts http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/handouts Locate your Education Advocate for free training at http://www.kn.att.com/support http://www.kn.att.com/support