Web+Resources+Portfolio

=Web Resources Portfolio =

Description For this assignment students were required to create a site on www.delicious.com. This website is used to tag and bookmarks websites. Students needed to find at least 50 websites that are relevant to his or her subject area and bookmark them on delicious. Along with the bookmarks there needed to be a minimum of 10 tags and a maximum of 20 tags that the bookmarks are filed under with at least two bookmarks under each tag. I created 14 tags for specific subject areas with 59 bookmarks. The tags that I used were for specific skills and strategies that I teach in the classroom. I also included a teacher resource tag for lesson plans and tutorials.

Process I had a hard time coming up with the tags for my bookmarks. Since I work with three grade levels with special education students it was hard for me to get only 10-20 tags. I came up the idea to lump some things together into one tag. For example, third and fourth grade have a lot of things that they teach that are alike and a lot of my students need help for the same things. I decided to pick topics that my students have a lot of trouble with understanding and create tags for that. For example, I used fractions as one tag because both third and fourth teach that. I also included tags that I could for lesson plans for all age levels because it gave me different ideas of how to teach students in different ways. I also tried to include tags for students' goals. For example, I included main idea, story events, letter sounds, money and time because most of my students have goals for these subjects.

Tags  Area/Perimeter DataAnalysis Fractions LetterSounds MainIdea MoneyTime MultiplicationDivision Numbers StoriesOnline StoryEvents Study TeacherResources Virtual Writing

Reflection I really enjoyed this assignment. It gave me the chance to research websites that I could use in the classroom and sites that I could use as resources for myself to use. I enjoyed taking the time to find many new sites that I didn't even know existed. I was surprised at how many resources that I could use with students in both third and fourth grade to help them understand concepts better and to practice the strategies that I am trying to teach. There are many times when I am teaching that I wish I had a website ready to show the students when they don't understand a skill I am teaching but it takes time to find the correct website to use with students. I enjoyed using the delicious site. The site made it easy to use and follow. I even showed some of the other teachers in my school about the site and how they could use it. This assignment has helped me get a great start to resources that I could have ready for the students to use and practice with in the classroom. I have started using some of the sites for the students to use during station time. Some of the sites I have used for goal collection because you can print out the results of the students games and how they completed the assignment.

Link

http://delicious.com/luvingelmo