How 2 create a self-playing webquest

Teachers often create lists of websites they want their students to use for a project - but the challenge becomes: how do you get the students to go to those sites, not wander all over the internet, and not get frustrated by the challenges of typing in a bunch of addresses when the internet is very unforgiving of type-o's?

Enter "Furly", which can be found at www.fur.ly


You can enter any number of addresses - each time you click on the field to enter one, the next empty field appears. When you're done, click GO.

The website will give you a very short url like this one --> http://fur.ly/e63

When a student enters this short url, they will see your first site with a navigation controls bar across the top that allows them to click back and forth among the list of sites in your list.

Go ahead and try the one I created to see what it's like. The address is permanent, at least it is as permanent as anything on the internet is...

It would be a very easy thing to require students to only work in your list of pre-approved sites, and very easy to monitor by looking for the orange navigation bar across the top.

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