Jessica Michaelson

SLM 521

June 14, 2005

Activity for Favorites in Internet Explorer

Goal: The student will learn about the purpose of

the feature called “Favorites” within Internet Explorer.

Goal: The student will save web pages that are

of use to them to their own Favorites list.

Introduction: Have you ever found a great web site that

you want to visit again and again? Have you then forgotten the address and how you found it? With the help of Internet Explorer, this will never happen again.

Internet Explorer has a feature entitled “Favorites.” With this special feature, a person can save as many URLs as they would like for their favorite web pages.

In this activity, you will make a Favorites folder that will be useful for you to use, either within the classroom, or for personal use.

Reading and Visit the Tutorial website to learn what

Discussion: the Favorites feature is, and how to save websites to

your favorites list.

Next, read through the Organizing Favorites website to learn how to create a specific folder within the favorites feature.

Is the Favorites feature one that is worthwhile? Why or why not. Answer this question with your group members and instructor through an email, and then think about websites that you would like to add to your favorites list and why. Feel free to share these with your group members as well.

Activities: After reading through the above links to

get an understanding of how to use Favorites, and how it works, begin to think of some websites or pages that you would want to add to a favorites list.

Visit the following sites to get ideas of web pages that are worth saving:

· Worksheets

· Clip Art

· Web Links

· Web Index

Feel free to search through the Internet to find other web pages that you may like.

Begin to think of two different categories that you often search on the Internet.

Assessments/ After visiting the Tutorial web page and

Assignments: the Organizing Favorites web page, create two separate folders within your Favorites feature on Internet Explorer.

These folders may be of personal or professional use.

By using the links listed above for ideas, add at least three URLs to each folder. You may add more if you would like.

Write a brief summary about the two folders you chose and why, as well as stating why you chose to add those specific URLs to each folder.

List step by step what you did to create the folder, and then to add the web addresses to your Favorites list. You only need to do this once, not for every web site.

Submission: Make your summary and steps of creating your Favorites folder a word document, and send it as an attachment in an email to your instructor.

Rubric:

Components	Unacceptable	Developing	Accomplished
Summary	Single statement of folders that were created.	Single sentence stating which folders were selected.	Stated in the form of a paragraph, which topics were chosen for folders and why.
Steps	Shows that there is no understanding of how to add a folder to the Favorites feature	Shows some of the steps, but not all steps that were taken to create both folders.	Shows mastery of adding folders to the favorites list, as well as a bulleted multi-step explanation of how it was done.