Tips on Picking Links
Suggested by Tom March
http://www.ozline.com/learning/thinking.html
Hotlists
- Hotlists collect web sites and divide them into subcategories.
- Hotlists provide learners with a wide range of resources that allow for expansion research and individual interests.
- The main thing to look for are comprehensive sites. Resources are collected to supplement a unit of study and provide an abundance and variety of information so that students can explore based on their own research goals.
Multimedia Scrapbooks
- Multimedia Scrapbooks collect web sites, but divide them by media type, e.g., photographs, maps, sound clips, videos, quotations, facts, etc.
- Multimedia resources are available as raw material to use in newsletters, desktop slide presentations, bulletin boards, collages, HyperStudio stacks, web pages.
- The main thing to look for are comprehensive sites. Resources are collected to supplement a unit of study and provide an abundance and variety of information so that students can explore based on their own research goals.
Treasure Hunts
- Treasure hunts collect web pages that contain specific information about the domain being studied.
- Treasure hunts target specific knowledge acquisition outcomes; questions encourage reading for meaning.
- Informative web pages, not comprehensive sites, should be collected.
Subject Samplers
- Subject samplers engage students in aspects of a topic they find personally interesting or motivating as a strategy for developing positive attitudes and affective connection to the topic.
- The main thing to look for are sites that evoke human interest. They may touch our emotions, excite our imaginations, or make us particularly feel our humanity.
- Students respond from a personal perspective, provide personal interpretations of art or data, and make comparisons to experiences they have had.
WebQuests
- WebQuests prompt learners to inquire and construct meaning through collaborative research and decision making.
- WebQuests collect web sites grouped by opposing or overlapping roles to create a thick sense of complexity and multiple truths. This may be because the topic is controversial, but it may also be that the topic is so large or connected to other issues that it requires a team approach.
- WebQuest resources illustrate diverse perspectives and pose strong opinions so students can critique and discriminate.
Collections of WebQuests
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