Portfolio+of+Web+Resources

The Portfolio of Quality Educational Web Resources assignment is intended to expand my horizons and at the same time allow me to spend the time and effort to find quality educational Web resources that can be used by teachers in my school. As relevance is the key word, the respurces that I find will be specific to the needs of teachers in my building. On my Delicious page, I have found quality Web resources relevant to my instructional responsibilities. (Note: A common complaint among teachers is they don't have time to search the Web for material - this assignment is intended to give you that time.)
 * __Desctiption of Assi​gnment__**


 * __URL to My Delicious__**

http://www.delicious.com/leoladenson


 * __Explanation of Delicious Tags__**

In my capacity as Technology Coordinator, I am expected to be able to provide assistance in curriculum integration for all subject levels. I usually try to refer teachers to web resources that reinforce the New Jersey State Core Content Curriculum Standards and that can be used across curricula. I also try to find resources that require minimum navigation and that can be used almost immediately.The tags that I chose reflect the most frequent requests from teachers in my building: //education,literacy,interactive, reference,free, games, technology, collaboration, resources.//

The Delicious assignment was quite daunting. As a technology coordinator in my school district, I imagined that it would be child's play to come up with fifity web resources that would be relevant to my field and useful in my efforts to further the integration of technology in the elementary classroom. However, I quickly realized that the challenge would be to find fifty resources that were varied enough in content as not to be redundant. Also as I explored websites for inclusion on this project, I found that many were poorly formatted, confusing, or so lackluster as to be rendered useless. Many of the ones that I included are personal favorites of mine. Several are go to sites that I refer to time and time again. Along with these favorites, I wanted to include new, previously unfamiliar sites that would be good for collaboration among colleagues and peers presenting opportunites for sharing ideas and joint lesson planning. I also learned a lot about the Delicious site itself which I had not known existed before tackling this assignment. Because of my exposure during this class, I felt confident enough with the medium to present it to other tech coordinators during our last monthly meeting.
 * __Reflection__**