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Resources = Hotlists
Everybody knows what hotlists are--big long lists of hypertext links to other places. They were one of the first applications to hit the Internet. They were the first attempt to fight the information overload that occurs during normal web searching. They are the net version of library pathfinders and bibliographies.
Just about anybody can put up an Internet site and that's one of the problems. The majority of sites have not been through any of the evaluative processes of which published print materials are subject--and so hotlists were born! Most hotlists are lists of resources (links) that have been assembled and evaluated by someone who is concerned about providing access to reliable, authoritative, and current resources. If they are obsessive and compulsive, all the better! At the heart of every good web-based lesson or activity, is a good hotlist. Here are a few hotlists that I hope you will enjoy, learn from, and use in some meaningful way in the classroom or library. These hotlists are intended to supplement the information provided in the Big6(tm) overview or to augment your use of the Big6(tm) game. To see more about this website, go to the Nuts and Bolts of Big6(tm) homepage .
- Information Literacy: What is it? What can you do about it?
- Other Big6 sites
- Asking Questions
- Locating Resources
- Using Information
- Self-assessment
- Problem-based learning by the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges, Tempe, AZ. This site includes an overview, lesson plans, and links to other resources.
- Try a webquest entitled, Investigating PBL from San Diego State University used for a 1996 CSU Faculty Development Institute. (Use the hypertext resources to complete the webquest; see what others wrote).
- Make your own hotlist using Filamentality!
Last revised December 7, 1999 by
Linda Woods Hyman,
Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer,
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