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trackstar offers teachers a way to control the internet for students. http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/;jsessionid=D1671293B1A30DDCF0425D894C2729D9 With trackstar the teacher generates a list of sites that the students will use to answer a given series of questions. The questions should lead to discovery on the websites annotated in the trackstar. I chose trackstar because it is very easy to use and has been in use for quite a while. This means that many trackstars have already been created for use by other teachers. A quick search through the database could deliver exactly what you need for your next activity.

The Trackstar site provides an online container for lesson materials that could also be used for pre-training activities. The site may help students select and organize mental representations of course concepts by facilitating the organization of related content.

Trackstar - This site allows the instructor of a course to bookmark sites where participants can browse prior to the beginning of the course. These sites can require participants to complete pre-training activities to lay the foundation to what will be learned in the course.

Explanation: This site allows users to create effective lessons and include multimedia and an environment that encourages users to stay in the course or lesson. Reasoning: The site is free, easy-to-manage, and flexible because it allows for all types of medium to be included in the presentation. In addition, since users stay within the medium to view any websites or presentation materials, they are less likely to be distracted.

This site allows educators to create a track of websites on any topic to create an online lesson/ pre-training activity. The educator can add directions for activities that students are to complete while looking through each website. This site is useful, because it is simple to use, even for a novice. It also aids the user by providing a database to search for tracks that are already completed.