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Net Cards So you'd like to take the learners out on the World Wide Web! You might think that it would take a few hours to prepare the lesson. Well, Net Cards are a short-cut to get you started. Net Cards are index-sized cards with an Internet address, a
description of the site, and a few activities to do while visiting the site.
Learners enjoy the cards because they cut through a lot of the confusion of the
surfing the net. Instructors like the cards because they are tiny, Like any work on the internet, the better your equipment, the faster the process, but even on very old equipment, these cards are fun and educational. Learners need to know how to enter an address and what the back key does. Other than that, it just involves reading the cards and following the links on the screen. The sites have been chosen partly for their easy reading level, and I found that even beginning readers can find and follow links on the net since they are often accompanied by pictures. The cards include addresses on many topics including eagles, wolves, baseball, cars, learner writing, recipes, outer space, and volcanoes. There are addresses where they can watch videos, look at pictures, play games, or take virtual trips.Assignments on the cards include retrieving information, printing out pictures and writing starts. Learners say "Wow" a lot and are keen to take home the information and/or pictures they print out. Net Cards are developed in the U.S., so some of them are not interesting to Canadian students. However, many sites such as Old Paw's Fishing Page include Canadian information. I found that the cards led me finally to take advantage of the many other places I see possible URL addresses presented: Literacy BC Newsletter, the Movement for Canadian Literacy Newsletter, and, of course, NALD. |
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