In my next post, I'm going to take the plunge and use Filamentality to create a web-based learning activity of my own. For now, however, we need to take a closer look at the fundamentals of filamentality.
For starters...how did the name filamentality come about? According to the AT&T Knowledge Network website, filamentality "combines the 'filaments of the web' with your 'mentality' allowing you to create a variety of formats that meet your personal or learner needs."
The benefit of using this tool is that each teacher can customize the web-based page to a particular subject area and easily manipulate the page to cater to different learning needs. The filamentlity tool facilitates the setup of the page, along with the online resources that accompany the topic.
For a full description of filamentality, click here.
To check out another sample of a web-based page using the filamentality tool, click here.
A topic to investigate in a later blog: the significance of maintaining active links when creating a web-based page for student learning.
References: The above information (links) and image came from AT&T Knowledge Ventures
2 comments:
I think that teachers would really like using this tool because there are great supporting guidelines and a built in structure. I can't wait for you to create a sample. The ones you've shared with us are nice but simple. I would love to see how are this site can be stretched as far as posting different types of media.
I must spend more time with this topic. You are right, it's much easier than buILder, but the product is very streamlined -- I am fond of the sounds and video clips we can include on buILder. It's awfully easy to get started: I glanced at the training material and in short order I was researchin sites on the Holy Grail! Also, I did not know about all the search engines they list at the very beginning. That was worth the price of admission.
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