A Scrapbook is a form of guided research where “learners gather and organize knowledge on a subject. They create a scrapbook by cutting and pasting (not linking) resources. Learners can post their scrapbooks to a forum for others to comment on.”(1)

(1) Horton, W. (2000). Designing Web-Based Training. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 210.

Use a Scrapbook to guide research by having students gather and organize information

• Give overview of the project
  
• Provide instructions
  
  • Have students visit resources provided and collect
    
    • text
      
    • pictures
      
    • statistics
      
    • bits of multimedia
      
    • quotations pertaining to assignment
  • Assemble the collected resources into a Scrapbook
    
  • Annotate the entries by explaining
    
    • What item means
      
    • Why item was selected
      
  • Prepare a table of contents for scrapbook
    

• Instructional Design Scrapbook—Graduate students explore different definitions and models of Instructional Design. The objectives of the activity are to
  
  • Form a definition of Instructional Design
    
  • Identify the basic steps in the Instructional Design Process
    
  • Examine various Instructional Design models
    
  • Analyze various Instructional Design models
    

  One graduate student reported spending 30 hours working on this assignment.

• Horton, W. (2000). Designing Web-Based Training. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Companion Web site: http://208.139.207.99/