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Filamentality helps you integrate the Internet into your handouts, research, lessons, and activities. Students and other teachers can access your pages from any Internet connected computer (or from your network if you choose to download and save your pages there). Below you will find examples of professionally created pages that vary from the standard Filamentality format and plain Filamentality pages created by real users.

Treasure Hunt: Teachers (and students) can create Treasure Hunts to facilitate learning factual knowledge on a subject. The basic strategy is to find sites that hold information that you feel is essential to the given topic. After you've gathered these links, you are then prompted by Filamentality to pose a question for each site. At the end of the Hunt, you add a culminating "Big Question." I f learners are already emotionally connected to the topic, then ask the question, "Are they learning enough background information on the subject?" If the answer is no or if the best information on the subject is "hot off the press," that's another reason to try a Treasure Hunt. You can take a look at a very basic treasure hunt, or view one of our own professionally designed Hunts: Black History Past to Present*