To get you in a good mood for our next activity, read the following story:

Last summer, the President and Mrs. Clinton were vacationing in their home state of Arkansas.On a venture one day, they stopped at a service station to fill up the car with gas. It seemed that the owner of the station was once Hillary's high school love. They exchanged hellos, and went on their way. As they were driving on to their destination, Bill put his arm around Hillary and said, "Well, honey, if you had stayed with him, you would be the wife of a service station owner today." She smiled and replied, "No. If I had stayed with him, he would be President of the United States."

Are you in a good mood now? Then let's hit the surf for miniactivity 3. Turn on your netscape navigator and get started. We will be starting our activities on Tman's TESOL Page <http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~thompson/>

Let me suggest you create a bookmark for this page so you can load it up fast and find it again quickly if you get lost. To bookmark, you just push the bookmark button and push save. If you open the bookmark again, you will see "tman's TESOL page" listed. To load up the page fast, you now only have to push on bookmark and then select Tman's TESOL Page.

For miniactivity 3, we are going to limit ourselves to checking out the links in the first section of Tman's page--the activity section.

Before you start checking things out, think of what aspect of TESL/TEFL interests you the most--teaching composition, pronunciation, vocabulary, culture, testing, whatever. With your topic in mind, select one of the websites and start surfing for information. Of course you may decide to change your topic once you get started. That's fine.

There are three words you need to keep in mind when surfing the internet.

You will soon see why. Try out every link you can find. Try out the activities. You might be surprised what hidden treasures there are.

As you surf, jot down interesting ideas you find--if you want, you can bookmark them to find them later. If this is your first time on the internet, you might want to read p.7 of our Sperling text, _The Internet Guide_ and the "Working with the Web" section of our Boswood text.(p. 131-137)

As you find things of interest to your topic, make a preliminary ranking of what is most interesting,, next most interesting, etc. according to lessons you might teach in a class. Which site seemed to be the most useful as far as having a collection of interesting links for the kinds of things you might want your students to do?

I will know you are finished with your task when you:

____1.send me an email clearly marked "miniactivity 3" which gives the topic you decided to focus on,

____2.have given me the URL's of the five (5) most interesting links you have found,

____3. have ranked the top five (5) sites in the activity section

____4. have explained why I said that the three most important words to keep in mind are patience, serendipity, and curiosity.

Happy Surfing Tman
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