Bree Smyth

Nov. 25, 2003

SLM 521 MC

Course Module

Favorites!

Goals: Students will learn how to save their favorite websites to “My Favorites” and organize their folders in IE.

Content Overview: Oh no! Yet again, you can’t remember the website you need for your class in 5 minutes! You swear you wrote it down somewhere… In this module, you will be able to organize and save all of your favorite web addresses so that you can come back to them in the future. You will be able to easily find a website by topic –all at the touch of your fingers!

Activities: Take a look at these tutorials and find one that you like. Make a list of five to ten websites that you would like to add to your favorites. Include several different topics so that you can create different folders for each topic.

Management of favorites- This is a simple tutorial to create a new favorites folder, add, and delete favorites. http://www.eiu.edu/~mediasrv/ie2/manage.html

Using Favorites in Internet Explorer – This tutorial takes you through four steps in the favorites process. Make sure you understand how to do step one and step two, and take a look at three and four. You are not required to know how to do those, but it is handy for when you want to move your favorites. http://www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/tutor/favorites/setFavorites/

Assignments: Now that you are an expert at creating a new folder for your favorites, adding favorites to your list, deleting favorites, and maybe even moving your favorites to another computer, it is time to get down to work. Create three or more folders for different subject areas and add at least 3 favorites in each folder. Once you have done this, use your favorites several times to see how much they can really help you. Write a 300-word paragraph explaining the usefulness of favorites to you. Include any difficulties you had with adding, deleting, or creating new folders.

Submission: Email your paragraph as a Word attachment to your instructor for credit.

Rubric:

	1	2	3
Ideas	Ideas are jumbled, not clear.	Ideas are weak or are not supported.	Strong ideas and support, very clear and concise.
Organization	No organization.	Some logical organization.	Clear, logical organization.
Spelling/Grammar	Many spelling or grammar mistakes.	Few spelling or grammar mistakes.	No spelling or grammar mistakes.