Portfolio+of+Quality+Education+Web+Resources

= Portfolio of Quality Education Web Resources =

Link to: My Delicious Page
=Process to Complete the Assignment= In creating the Delicious page I first had to figure out how I wanted to categorize my links. I was not too sure of exactly what I was doing because I have never used Delicious before and was not aware of social bookmarking. I was also unsure of the assignment and how many categories of links we needed to have. I decided to create 5 groupings to begin with: **USHistory** that would include links that had primary sources or other infromation that would be useful in the US History class. The second grouping was similar but titled **WorldCiv**; these would be for my World Civilizations class. The third grouping is titled **USHistoryLessons** that include different lesson plans I have collected over the years. The forth group is called **Wikis,WebquestsandBlogs** that include several links to Wikis and Blogs that I frequent for lesson ideas. Finally the last group is called **Development** and that includes many of the links that I have used in the EDT classes. These are valuable for the development of technology in my classroom.

I'm excited to use Delicious now and have volunteered to create one for our department to use so that all the students will have access to the same links. This will enable us to coordinate assignments between different teachers. We feel this is important so that each student will have the same access to infomation and so that we are consistent throughout the department.

=12/8/09 - Update= As I said in my earlier posting I was unsure of the assignment as written. I have since learned that I needed to include between 10 and 20 tags for the Delicious site. I had originally thought we needed to have 10 links under each tag and that we would be adding different tags as we progressed throughtout the masters program. I'm glad that this is cleared up now because I find Delicous much easier to use now that I can have more tags. As a result of this clarification I have added tags for: **Technology** - This includes some of the new sites that I have 'discovered' duing the course of the masters. **India**- Many of these links will be useful in my World Civilizations class and for the production of the Webquest. **MiddleAges** - This groups all my World Civilization links dealing with the Middle Ages into one group. **1930's and 1960's Tags**- I added these tags so that I can easily find the links by year from my USHistory links. **Colonial** - This was added to group all the colonial era links together so quick reference. **Writing** - I tried to include all the links that I frequently use to check writing assignments. This includes information about MLA (our school choice) and ideas for DBQs.

Having now completed the assignment the correct way (or at least what I hope is the correct way) I find Delicious much easier to use. The ability to include multiple tags for a specific link make Delicious a great tool. It makes it much easier to find tags based on a specific topic. With the addition of the new tags I will have a much better time locating specific links. I have also done more work on the department Delicious site and really see this as a great tool for the students to use. Researching is so difficult for some of our students (especially with History Day) so having a site that all of them can access that would have links available for research will really make their (and our) job easier.