Portfolio+of+Quality+Educational+Web+Resources

=Portfolio of Quality Educational Web Resources= This is a collection of websites I feel are useful tome as a teacher of English and social studies, as well as a teacher trying to integrate meaningful and relevant technology into the classroom. The assignment required a minimum of 50 sites, with a minimum number of 10 tags and no more then 20.

As an English teacher, I want sites revolving around reading, writing, and the writing process. For this reason, I chose **Ebooks**, **Grammar**, and **Writing**. As a social studies teacher, the focus shifts to history and geography and site which specifically deal with primary sources. These sites are found under the **History** and **Geography** tags. Writing research papers is an important component of both subjects, so I included **Organizers** and **Research**. In an effort it incorporate relevant technology, I choose sites relevant to me, **Teaching**, and sites relevant for my **Students**. Although wikis are a wonderful tool, I hope to graduate past them to full websites, so I also added **Webdesign**,

Tags

 * Ebooks** - sources for either audiobooks or digital books. Most sites are free, but not all.
 * Grammar** - sites with explanations and exercises to help improve grammar
 * Writing** - tools and tips to help improve writing skills
 * History** - resources of historical data, artifacts, and pictures
 * Geography** - maps and information about the world we live in
 * Organizers** - sites with graphic organizers to help students begin the writing process.
 * Research** - reference cites about writing styles, citations and references.
 * Teaching** - sights meant to make the life of a teacher easier
 * Students** - sights meant to make the life of a student easier
 * Webdesign** - someday, I hope to graduate past wikis to full web design

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Reflection
This was an assignment with two distinct agendas. The first being the need for teachers to find relevant websites for their classroom. the second is the concept of social networking through the internet. In this case the vehicle is social bookmarking through delicious.com.

With so many websites out there and so many more being added every nano secon, its hard to keep up. When we finally find a site which works for us, we tend to hold on with both hands. This assignment allowed the students of this class the time we rarely get to look for quality sites. The fact that they are all saved in one convenient place which can be accessed is convenient. The question becomes, how many websites can we really keep up with. My fear is that the list would become so large that I may as well just use Google.

The second part of the site is the social bookmarking side. Everyone shares bookmarks. Does anyone want to share all of their bookmarks? So know I have to maintain two bookmarklist which have about 70% of sights in common. In addition, I'm not overly enthusiastic about the site used - Delicious. The site works fine, but the name is not very professional sounding and not one I would want to use in open conversation. In addition, in order to use delicious, Ihad to sign up with Yahoo!, which means yet another email and password I need to keep track of.

All in all, I found some awesome sites and I hope to keep up with the list.

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