As a classroom teacher, I often encountered a seemingly simple task that was deceptively challenging, namely, sharing a collection of web pages with students. In most cases, writing a URL on the board or a handout is completely ineffective, resulting in a good deal of lost instructional time while the teacher helps students fix typos and correct other issues. URL shortening services, like bit.ly and TinyURL can help, but can also lead to problems of their own. The solution I usually adopted was to post the links to any web pages I wanted students to use in class on the course web page.Because this was a site that students were familiar with, it was easy enough to ask students to use it as a sort of portal to pages I wanted them to look at in class.
What if, however, you want to present students with a list of web pages you want them to visit in a particular order? Again, you create such a list on a course web page, but you won’t be certain that students visit the indicated pages in the specified order. That’s where the tool reviewed in (more…)
