Steps to Creating a Hotlist
A simple activity…
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To learn how quickly and easily you can create a web page we will do the following activity
We will begin by looking for sites you would use with your students. To be as relevant as possible,
choose a topic that you plan to teach and focus on that
Limit the time you spend looking for relevant sites
Remember to bookmark the sites you find interesting or want to use
Netscape Communicator- things you need to know
Netscape Communicator, a complete package with several components, allows the user to browse the
internet, create web pages, e-mail and collaborate with other users. We will be using two of
Communicator’s components, Netscape Navigator to browse web pages and Netscape Composer to
create or modify pages.
To create our Hotlist we will use Navigator to do searches and find useful sites for our students and
bookmark them. We will use Composer to create, from our bookmarks, a web page of internet resources
(hotlist) for our students to use.
Steps to Quickly Creating a Hotlist using Netscape Communicator
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Using Netscape Navigator, search the internet for useful sites
Bookmark the sites you find interesting and useful
 To save a site’s location or “bookmark” a site, click on Bookmarks in your Menu bar and
highlight Add a Bookmark. This will automatically record the name and location of the web
page you are looking at
Once your search is complete you are ready to create your Hotlist page
To view your Bookmarks press the Apple+B keys (Windows users, Control+B)
You may Edit your Bookmarks here by highlighting and deleting anything you do not want to use
Next, Go to File, highlight Save AS to save the Bookmarks as a separate file
Name the file. For example: Shakespeare Hotlist
Click on OK to save the file but Be sure to Save the file to your folder located on the network
Close the Bookmark window so that you are back in the Netscape browser
Next, Go to File and Open the bookmark file you just saved
To Edit your new Hotlist page go to File in the menu bar and highlight Edit Page
You may now edit the page using the “word processing features” of Netscape Communicator
 Change the Title of your page- For example: Shakespeare Links
 To change the page’s background color, Go to Format in the menu bar and highlight
Page Properties
 Add text to the page. For example: Your name and name of your school
Congratulations your Hotlist is complete and ready to use!!
Teaching with Technology
Workshop Handout- Creating a Hotlist
SCM
6/28/2016