HIT: Organizing web addresses - Pt 2

[Benjamin School Mary Stewart Lewis]

HIT: Organizing web site addresses Part 2

I bought a portable plastic
file box, made hanging file folders for the alphabet, write or type a
subject
heading on the side of each page, and throw them in behind the letter.
The
subject headings aren't pure Sears, just what makes sense to me at the
moment.  If I clip an address from a magazine, I tape or staple it to
some
recycled paper.   So far, I don't take the time to alphabetize the
subjects
beyond the first letter.
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We then compiled a database using Clarisworks organized by subject
headings and then listed the web address and a brief summary of each
site.
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I've had success bookmarking the good sites - a couple hundred of them!
-
and placing them into subject area folders. As this grows unwieldy, I'll
organize by subject, then grade level. Next step is to download each
subject's bookmarks to disk.
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See
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~wardsboro/catalogs.htm
for the way I have done it.
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Hi. First I would recommend not keeping more than 200  at a time 8=)
I would go through them occasionally to delete dead links.
What I do is give them categories.  At school, I use curricular
headings,
e.g. history, English, science, technology, cultural/ESL, etc.
At home, I use categories convenient to me, i.e. Tucson, education,
computers, web, technology, reference, geography, etc.
I also maintain an extra file (rolodex) by my computer at home for those
things I consider "second tier"
Before I bookmark something I read about (from a magazine, etc.), I go
to
the site and check it out.
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I am in hs library, and I have started a series of starter
pages organized by subject.
Even before we had a server and had the chance to "broadcast"
these, we used them locally to help people find stuff on the
web.
>From the Contents page, one clicks on Search Engines, and gets
a page of choices with some minor annotations; they are of
course clickable if you are connected to your provider.
Then comes a choice for index type pages like Yahoo and some
of the great multi-subject pages out there done by educators.
Then follows separate clicks for each hs subject.
Learn a minimal amount of HTML and start a series of pages
to be used when and where they would be of most help: at
the computer as you log on.
Copy the pages' files onto the hard drive of any computer
that can access the Net. Set Netscape or Explorer to
come up on your local contents page first, not mcom.com
or wherever they normally come up.

--
Mary Stewart Lewis, Director of Library Media Services
The Benjamin School
11000 Ellison Wilson Rd., North Palm Beach, Fl. 33408
marystewart_lewis@benjaminschool.com

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