Monday

**Delicious** -
I think I will like using Delicious as I become more familiar and comfortable with it. I like the idea of having a place to save items that I can retrieve from anywhere. I can see myself using this as a part of my weekly newsletter that I send home to parents. I could post sites here that parents could view to give them ideas on how to help their child at home and also links to games that would be beneficial to have their child play at home. With a team of six teachers in my grade level, it is not always easy to keep everyone updated on the items we are each using in our classrooms and this will be a great way to help keep everyone informed. Finding sites to include in my Delicious bookmark was a valuable activity in that it gave me lots of practice to learn this technique and I was able to find many sites that will be valuable in implementing technology in my classroom. CKO I really enjoyed the walk through WORD. I had no idea how to use most of the things that you showed us. Hopefully, I will remember some of it and make good use of these tools in the future. CKO === I find this web source to be extremely useful when working with group projects, within a department, or cross content. Our media specialist is constantly posting links we may find helpful and then sharing what she finds with the school. As a department, we benefit because many sample plans and projects have now been put into one easily accessable area. KS === As for the websites below, I found the first newsmap to be different and exciting but visually overwhelming. I can see how the site //could// be distracting to some students but it is a fun new way to get students interested in some current event topics. This seems better suited for a government class but I would be able to use this tool when working through a persuasion unit with my English class. KS

The second news section seems to be visually calm but less exciting-I could see how students would pass up this page for the first one. KS

Delicious is a great resource for educators to share and exchange resources from the comfort of their homes. I would use it to establish guidelines as to what websites students may use, like a modern-day webquest. ~SML ​ I thnk these sights will be very useful in my classroom since we use the newspaper each day to do current events. The studnets would be able to look up current events according to regions and topics from around the world. Nic The front page news site would be neat to have studnets compare news stories from across the country and different opinions. Nic

Looking at the websites, I can see myself using the sites as a daily warm up. The students that I teach have a hard time with daily prompt writing, but I wonder if I had a current event up on the board for them to read they would be excited. After they complete their reading I could possible have them write their feelings about the event in their journals. The students could also talk with classmates and then write in the journals. My students have very poor social skills and writing skills, so I believe that if they are able to interact with classmates and the comment on the reading they will feel more comfortable.

I also teach the different states and the regions. It would be interesting will talking about a region or state to be able to pull up a current event on the area, so that they could read about it. Social Studies is a big hit in my class and I could see my students wanting to look up a lot about things going on in the world daily.

Delicious I found to be a very good resource and I will be placing all websites that I have on home and school desktop on this site. This is definitely going to make life easier for me and I will be able to share this with staff at work, so that we are able to have a site that we can all go to and share information instead of having to email it to everyone.

Everything that we have talked about today in class is new to me, because at my school we don’t use these: Moodle, Wiki, Delicious, etc. ~ LMP

My Information Technology curriculum is in the process of being upgraded and updated--a real face-lift. The Web Development Cell includes no 2.0 Websites. Knowledge in this area will be of great value when I prepare my new lessons. KMB

Today I learned some new tricks and tips in WORD. I cannot wait to share my added knowledge--especially with using shortcuts and working with pictures. WORD 2003 is the backbone of my Keyboarding class---and I have learned how to make it stronger. KMB

** I could use this as part of my weekly newsletter home to parents. I would give them the web site and information on how to access delicious, then I would tag sites with games and tips on things to do at home to help their child. CKO ** In the classroom, I could easily bring up a site to use with the children by having it tagged and able to get to it quickly when needed. CKO ​ ​

The delicious site/link could be very helpful with tagging information with my department in Special Education and how we are scatter all over the York/Adams county we can stay connected with great sites and information. NIC

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