• Filamentality is a service that offers a variety of formats for posting online assignments. The system can create hotlists, scrapbooks, treasure hunts, subject samplers, and web quests based on simple, easy to read form templates.

Lesson Types

  • Treasure Hunts
  • Scavenger Hunts - Do you want to create a Scavenger Hunt? Here's all the help you'll need to turn that boring lesson into a fun activity.
  • Subject Samplers - In a Subject Sampler learners are presented with a smaller number (maybe half a dozen a most) of intriguing web sites organized around a main topic.
  • Virtual Field Trips - Virtual field trips are fancy names for Internet access to places of interest without actually going there. They are beneficial for all ages and all academic disciplines. Virtual tours range from simply accessing information about a place of interest to having live cameras and audio of the site
  • List of resources for online lesson plans - Haven't found that perfect lesson or activity yet? This should help you find everything you've been looking for.

Resources

  • Netscape Composer Tutorials - Who said you need to know HTML? This is a simple and quick way to create your own personalized web page. Great for all levels.
  • Grabbing distant web pages - A short job aid that walks you through the process of downloading a web page to later be edited. Perfect for templates!

  • WebQuests (to be added after Dan's Lunch 'n Learn, Wednesday afternoon)