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Guided Tour/Hotlist Activity
Like Guided Practice in a lesson where the teacher
guides the student through new material, the Guided Tour/Hotlist is intended to
guide the new Internet user through a series of activities that will
familiarize the students with content and the use of the Internet. The
guided tour activity limits the need to use search engines. It focuses
the student on a specific content and offers opportunities for the student to
make limited choices by limiting the number of sites to be visited. This
activity is an introduction to information on the web. The intent is to
assist the user who is not familiar with searching or to limit a class of students
so that material may be covered in a limited amount of time. This web
site is a guided practice that leads users to specific locations determined by
the web page creator. This activity
maximizes the use of computer lab time and minimizes the time spent in needless
surfing.
For more information on the Guided Tour Activity
and many samples
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/Guided.html
A sample hotlist
The Multimedia
Scrapbook can be the result of using a hotlist.
Learners dig through a collection of Internet sites organized around
specific categories such as, photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations,
sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, etc. A Multimedia Hotlist provides
links to the content types and the students then can download, copy and paste,
and choose the elements to create their project. Learners use the Scrapbook to find aspects of
the broader topic that they feel are important. Students could create a variety
of formats: newsletter, desktop slide presentation, collage, bulletin board,
PowerPoint, or web page.
A sample
Multimedia Scrapbook Turn of the
Century Child
More InformationMultimedia
Scrapbooks