BOOKMARKS

Objective:

Students will be able to create an Educational folder which includes bookmarks that allow them quick access to favorite education websites.

Students will be able to create subfolders within main folder in order to organize bookmarks.

Introduction:

Today with the amount of time we search on the net it is hard to remember all the urls that we visit. This is why the development of Bookmarks, otherwise known as favorites, came about. The bookmark/favorite function allows users to revisit pages directly without always remembering the web address.

Activity:

Choose 2 or 3 search engines and search the Internet to develop a list of 10 educational sites based on your teaching area or level. Then create a bookmark list for the web sites.

Assignment:

Using the Internet locate web sites that are relative to your teaching area or level. After linking to a page of interest create a bookmark/favorite. There are two ways to create a bookmark/favorite. The first is the right click on the web page and select add to favorites. The second way is to go to the side bar and select favorites, then add to favorites key. Doing one of these methods creates a shortcut to the web site for a later time.

After a minimum of 10 web sites have been added to your bookmark/favorites, please create a main Educational folder and a minimum of 2 subfolders to organize your web links. To organize go to side bar and choose favorites then click on organize favorites. Create a new folder. Then click on web link and choose move to folder. Bookmark a minimum of 3 web links under each sub folder. Complete movement of all web links.

When your list is complete right click on the folder and select send to. Send copy of your bookmark/favorite list to my email.

Resources:

My Bookmarks -This is a free service in which it allows you to save your favorite/bookmark list online in order to access them from anywhere.

http://www.mybookmarks.com/

Using favorites effectively - This link offers step-by-step directions for using favorites.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/entry_level_pc_ie_fav.htm

Creating a collection of favorite sites - This link offers directions on how to collect, organize, export, import and view favorites list

http://www.farmingdale.edu/library/bookmk.html

Creating bookmarks - This link explains how to use bookmarks or favorites on numerous web browsers.

http://www.howtoweb.com/websurfing/bookmark.htm

Bookmarks or Favorites - This link offers directions on how to create bookmarks in Netscape and Internet Explorer

http://hsc.unm.edu/wbc/browser_bookmarks.html

About Bookmarks - This link gives a detailed explanation of bookmarks and includes links to other information on bookmarks, including a table of contents

http://www.omnigroup.com/Documentation/OmniWeb/Topics/Bookmarks.html

Using Favorites and Bookmarks – This link offers directions for saving and accessing web pages through Internet Explorer and Netscape

http://www.intel.com/education/newtotech/favorites.htm

Rubric

Components	1	2	3
Number of sites	0-6 web links in one sub folder	7-9 web links in 1-2 sub folders	10 + web links in 2 + sub folders
Activity – email	Incomplete list – no email	Incomplete list – emailed	Complete list and emailed
Variety of links	Links lack variety in information	Links lack some variety in information	Links are varied in information