Portfolio+of+Quality+Education+Web+Resources

=//Portfolio of Quality Education Web Resources // =
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// Description: //
// This assignment was designed to assist educators with collecting 50 Web resources that could be utilized for instructional purposes. Once collected the educator would have easy access to these web resources which would be stored and organized in a central source, Delicious.com. It is a social bookmarking web service that was used for storing, sharing, and tagging the 50 bookmarks. Each web resource was required to have four pieces of information associated with it: Title, URL, Description and Tag. // ||
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//Process://
// I first searched through the bookmarks on my personal laptop and discovered that I already had thirty educational web resources which I was currently using for instructional purposes with my elementary school students. I decided to categorize them according to how they were used and what type of information they provided. In order to locate twenty more educational resources, I performed web searches on various topics and subject that I had learned about in my classes at Wilmington University //// with different search engines (Bing, Altavista, Dogpile, and Google) ////. //    ||

//Delicious Site URL: http://delicious.com/chandrawater//
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 * = ==//**TAGS / TOPICS **// == ||
 * < // 1. ANIMALS // || // 9. MATH  // ||
 * // 2. ART // || // 10. READING // ||
 * < //3.// //CURRICULUM STANDARD_LP// || // 11. SCIENCE // ||
 * < // 4. DICTIONARY  // || // 12. SOCIAL STUDIES  // ||
 * < // 5. GAMES // || //13. SPELLING// ||
 * < // 6. HOMEWORK // || //14. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS// ||
 * < // 7. INTERACTIVE // || //15. WEATHER// ||
 * < // 8. LESSON_PLANS // || //16. WORKSHEETS// ||



//Reflection://
// As an educator, I believe it is my responsibility to help prepare my students for the future. However, especially because we are educators in the 21st Century, teachers must begin to embrace and not reject technology. Integrating technology into the classroom is one of the necessary venues that educators must embrace so that our students can be prepared for a technological society. // //T////he Web offers data and information from all over the world.// //It can be a valuable tool for educators. However, because so much information is available, it is necessary to evaluate the resources //// you find. //// Some websites are so poor that they offered little educational support. Other websites had flaws that required closer inspection to detect. // // I searched for web resources which I could utilize with first and second grade students such as curriculum based lesson plans, technology integration, and virtual field trips. // // I also tried to evaluate each web resource on the following five points: (1). //// content layout and quality, (2). content //// level, (3). time loading, (4). links and advertising to other sites, and //// (5). activities or lesson plans. // // Integrating technology does not mean that the teacher only uses the computer to keep his or her grade book or create worksheets, or that the teacher is the only one using the technology. Integrating technology into the curriculum means that the teacher is using various types of technology to enhance and transform the teaching as well as learning processes. Therefore, the students are benefiting by being engaged and by using the various types of technology. // || <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">