Internet Explorer

Objectives

1. Students will be able to use and understand the favorites feature on Internet Explorer.

2. Students will be able to create folders and add websites to them to store as their favorites for easy access.

Introduction

As a physical education teacher using the internet is a great tool. There are many websites on the internet that are very useful for physical education teachers. You can find neat new ideas for games and activities to use in your class. There are lots of websites to get the history and drills for different sports to use as well. In Internet Explorer there is a great feature called Favorites and this is where you can store all those useful and great websites on physical education. Using the Favorites feature allows you to access those websites in a quick and easy way. You can even separate them into folders so you could have a folder on lesson plans and only websites related to that would be in there. It is a great tool to use and not many people take advantage of it.

Activities

As you surf the web and you come across a great website that you would use again store it in your favorites. Be sure to organize the websites into folders to make it easily understandable and quicker to find the site you are looking for the next time you want to go there.

Here’s how to use Favorites:

Ø First click on the favorites button on the tool bar at the top of Internet Explorer.

Ø You will then see a section appear on the left side of the screen in Internet Explorer.

Ø Click on the button that says Organize and then click on the button that says Create New Folder.

Ø Type in the name of the folder you want and your folder will appear in the Favorites box on the left side of your screen.

Ø Go to the website by typing the URL in the address box.

Ø Now click on the Add button, the website you want to save will appear in the box that says Name.

Ø To place the website in a specific folder click on Create In and then select the folder and hit the Ok button.

Ø The website will now be placed in the folder for easy access.

Assignments

Create 5 folders that you want in your Favorites related to physical education. In each folder I want you to find at least 5 websites. For example, the name of my folder is Soccer and in that folder I have 5 websites that are related to soccer like the history or drills. Once you do that I want you to make an organized table in Word that shows me the 5 folder names and the websites for folder. You can put the title of the webpage and then hyperlink them so that I can visit those sites.

Submission

After creating your table in Word, please email it to your instructor as a file attachment.

Rubric

	Bare Minimum	Developed	Accomplished
Folders	-Less then 3 folders.	-There are 3-4 folders.	-At least 5 different folders.
Websites	-Less then 3 websites per folder.	-There are 3-4 websites per folder.	-At least 5 websites per folder.
Organization	-Not in table format or there is no organization of your folders and websites.	-In table format and somewhat organized.	-Well organized in table format that is easy to understand.