But for now, A Scrapbook is a collection of multimedia sites from which students download and reformat text, graphics, sounds, and other materials into multimedia reports. For your students to succeed with a Scrapbook, they will need to understand how to download graphics from the Internet, how to cut and paste, and how to work with the products they capture in a word processor or presentation program. You should also plan on discussing copyright. Scrapbooks give students a good chance to practice creativity, work with multimedia, and enhance writing skills. A Hunt is a collection of Internet sites and questions.
Students visit the sites to find answers to the questions.
The questions can either be connected to a particular web site, or the lists can appear separately, so that students have to figure out which sites answer which questions. Hunts are excellent as self-guided activities, as a test of content knowledge, or as a motivation for reading skills. A Sampler also collects web sites, but the focus here is on using a few sites for a variety of activities. With each site, students are given several activities to try. This is a good way to give students exposure to a new topic.