The Summary/ Reflection of Creating Hot Lists
The topic of this writing is about creating hot list by considering the following web-sites: www.filamentality.com, Del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us, WebQuests- www.webquest.org, and Podcasting - www.podomatic.com. By examining these web sites we can understand what creating hot lists.
Firstly, by using Filamentality, we can mix our learning aims up many online web sources; that is, it helps us to combine our learning and teaching goals with the available internet contents. We can find useful internet sources and also we can create our lessons without knowing anything about HTML; in other words, we can create our own web sites for our specific purposes about education. We can just start with choosing a topic and related format, collect the related links and give the titles and questions to the links. Its formats are Hotlist, Treasure Hunt, Sampler, Scrapbook, and WebQuest. In this tool, we can find web activities for the students, training, student-created and published work, and collaborative activities.
Secondly, Del.icio.us… It is a social bookmarking web-site and a product of Yahoo. By using this free-charge web-site and simply signing up it, we can start to make our online bookmark lists. We can save any links to our bookmarks and access to them from anywhere that is possible for the internet access. Therefore, it is very useful and practical. For example, you bookmarked a web site on your PC, but you were far away from your PC, what would you do if you had to access that bookmarked link? You should go to use your PC, or simply you used Del.icio.us, which is very practical and economical. In addition, we can share our bookmarked list with any other people that use Del.icio.us, and also we can access their bookmarked list which it is good chance to have a look at what the other people are doing on Internet… and by this way, people become a part of virtual social world. Moreover, it is easy to use. We can edit our bookmarks and enjoy using this useful tool.
Thirdly, WebQuests… it is a kind tool that was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995, and it aims at helping students and teacher in education sense. As a teacher, you can create your online class activities and publish it online, and also you can share it with the other teacher in addition to using their web quests. While creating a new one, you can select different patterns or frameworks for the different education purposes. However, I think all these stuff is very time-consuming; that is, you should plan every detail to publish it and additionally it is boring, I think. Actually, being planned in detail is good thing but we should find people who like to study on that. We can add images and then edit the appearance of our part. To sum up, besides time-consuming like preparing a new course, it is not practical, I mean, it is too complicated to use and more importantly, it is not free-charge, and you can only use it free for a 30 trial days.
Lastly, let’s examine and think about Podomatic which is kind of audio and video casting web-site, to understand better the creating hot lists. Podcasting is a term for audio and video casting, and you can upload your audio and video files to share with other people. Necessarily, you are not just uploading, but you can have an access to other people’s files. Also, you can record videos and audio files online, and by sharing these you can have a enjoyable and educational virtual environment, because we can comment and discuss on them. Of course, we can use it in educational purposes, for example, we can watch Japanese learning videos online, and we can also share some video and audio files to contribute to the learners’ listening skills… By these ways, Podomatic becomes a hot list to explore what we need and we add new things; therefore, it becomes a social and interactive tool.
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