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Portfolio of Quality Education Resources Eric Walter

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Description: 

The Portfolio of Quality Educational Web Resources assignment is intended to expand your horizons and at the same time allow you to spend the time and effort to find quality educational Web resources for your classroom. Relevant is a key word for this assignment and you are the one who determines relevant. Find quality Web resources that are relevant for you and your 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.) (Taken from Dr. Hartschuh's page)

Process for choosing categories and tags:

Really, it was a fairly straightforward process. I started off by beraking things down into the categories I wanted: the major concepts covered in Middle School, and then the miscellaneous things. I started out with 13 tabs. However, 1 became obsolete ("Tools" was deemed too like "Resources," and Resources won that round of chicken). Likewise, I had separate tabs for Ratios and Probability, but combined them with other tags I felt they would be better suited for. As for the resources themselves, many were sites I used on a regular basis anyway and now have put them some place where it is very easy to get back to them. Some other ones I really had to delve and search on the web to find good things for. What it came down to was either A) if I had used it before, it was grandfathered in, or B) had I not used it before, if I could think of some use for myself or a fellow teacher for a decent application of it, it was pulled in.

List of Tags:
 * Algebra
 * ExtentionActivities
 * Fractions/Ratios
 * Games
 * GenericPrintables
 * Geometry
 * Graphing
 * Resources
 * Statistics/Probability
 * Testing

Reflection:

I have mixed feelings on Delicious. On the one hand, it is really nifty to have a large portion of resources in one place, easy to access, with immediate feedback (from myself) in regards to how the page is. Quick and easy, especially since I can access that from anywhere. I would say that is probably the biggest thing going for it. I could see the school (or each grade-level) making their own page there for the sake of how efficient it is. On the other hand, I am fairly decent with computers. Knowing how to Google things sometimes makes something like this obsolete on a personal level. It might also have detracted from this assignment in regards to having to find 50 semi-unique sites/tools/etc. By around 27, I had sifted through enough crappy websites to last me a lifetime, and I still had to find 23 more diamonds in the rough. Perhaps more appropriate for this assignment would be 25 websites...

Where's my site?!

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