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Definition
A topic hotlist
is a collection of useful and interesting sites related to a specific
topic.
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Curricular Goal
- Enhance an existing
unit of instruction. Goal depends on objective of unit.
- Teach students
to locate and evaluate relevant resources.
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Uses
- An instructor created
hotlist can be used to enhance an existing unit of instruction with
web resources.
- Saves students
hours of searching
- Insures that
students use quality sites
- Makes instructor's
bookmarks or favorites available to all
- Students can find resources on a topic
to create a class hotlist.
- Practice search
skills
- Learn to evaluate
the quality of web sites
- Distributes
work which saves time for everyone
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Steps for Creating
- Instructor created
hotlist
- Locate relevant
sites and bookmark
- Organize sites
into categories
- Develop a web
page or word processing document that lists sites, URLs, and a brief
annotation
- Student created
hotlists
- Assign a topic
for exploration
- Ask students
to locate relevant sites
- Provide discussion
forum in a Course Management System (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.) where
students share the results of their search. Be sure to specify criteria
for the posts.
- If students
have the skills, assign a small team (2-3 students) to organize
the posts to the discussion area, edit them for consistency, and
write a web page to be posted and shared with the class.
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Examples
- Instructor Created
- Resource
List for a Graduate class for classroom teachers learning to
use the Internet with students.
- Student Created
Hotlist
- Hotlists on the Internet
- Frank
Potter's Science Gems--a list of science resources for K-16
teachers that contains more than 14,000 Science Resources sorted
by Category, Subcategory, and Grade Level
- Blue
Web'N, an online library of 1800+ Internet sites; has
hotlists of sites by subject area.
- Black
History Hotlist--a list of links from various sources on the
Internet
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References and
Resources
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