Favorites List

 

 

Objective

 

Students will be able to create and use a personal favorites list, including the ability to organize favorites into folders and to import and export a favorites list.

 

 

Introduction

 

 

During this course you have visited many, many great sites.  These are sites that would be worth coming back to, once, twice, or dozens of times!  Internet Explorer, like most Internet programs offers it’s users a favorites list.  This is a place to “book mark” those favorite web sites so you can visit them with ease, never having to remember the whole URL address.  This favorites list can then be organized into folders and even exported and imported from computer to computer.

 

 

Activity

 

In order to gather more information about favorite lists, visit the web sites below:

 

Cool for School - http://www.actden.com/IE4/Unit3/3_school.htm

 

Creating and Organizing Favorites - http://www.gordonrichard.com/internet/lessons/les5orfa.htm

 

Saving your favorite Web Sites - http://www.enetis.net/support_archive/saving_favorites.html

 

Saving Your Internet Favorites - http://www.pageud.k12.az.us/HelpDesk/EOYMaint/SaveFavs.htm

 

How to Manage your Bookmarks and Favourites - http://www.viewz.com/aol/dijit/dijtip146.shtml

 

 

 

Assignment

 

Create a favorites list with at least 3 folders in it.  Organize these folders in anyway that works for you.  Save your favorites list using the directions above and export it into a Word file.  Post your file, along with a list of five examples of how knowing how to do this would be useful to teachers to your index page.

 

 

Other Sites

 

http://www.whitelinks.com

 

http://www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/web/basics/step-organize.htm

 

Rubric

To receive full credit, your assignment needs to have:

·        Atleast 3 favorites folders

·        Been exported to a Word file

·        Five examples of how knowing this skill will be useful.