Portfolio+of+Quality+Educational+Web+Resources

COUSRE ASSIGNMENT

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.)

How do I keep track of all these quality resources? That’s always a good question and people have gone through many personal transitions from having them bookmarked (or in favorites), on sheets of paper in a folder, on index cards, in a Word document, on a Website (where they created the Web pages), and most recently, using wikis and social bookmarking sites!

For this course, you will use a social bookmarking site to record all of your Web resources! We will categorize our Web resources by topic, and the most important part for identifying bookmarks by topic on a social bookmarking site is the concept of tags. With all of your Web resources, you will need four items: a title, the URL, and a brief description (the brief description can be copied from the site!), and most importantly, the tag.

We are trying not to have too many ground rules, but we really don’t want to see someone having 50 topic areas with 1 resource each or 1 topic area with 50 resources! Remember, this is an assignment to expand your horizons, not to have tunnel vision in one or two places! So, the basic ground rules are a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 topic areas with a minimum of 2 resources per topic area. When you are selecting a topic area, you should look at that topic area as a place where you want to find multiple resources. The bottom line is to expand your horizons by collecting at least 50 quality educational Web resources that are relevant to you and your instructional responsibilities in multiple topic areas.

I am a Business Education Teacher and my process for this assignment was to choose Business topics that are taught in my classes and have available sources for both students and teachers. The following tags or topics can be found on my Delicious site: Entrepreneurship Human Resources Accounting BPA Management Economics Spending Webquests Advertising Ethics Stocks Technology Bonds Career Planning Games Websites Banking You can view my bookmarks at the following website: []

REFELECTION

At first I thought this assignment was going to be relatively easy for me but it was not. I had a hard time using Delicious, coming up with topics and finding valuable web resources. I decided to look in my Introduction to Business textbook to see what topics we discuss and then I started a list. Once I had the list, I was on a mission to complete the assignment. So I searched the topics, added the bookmarks and the process slowly began to make sense and was easier to do. My objective was to find sources that could be used by students to gain additional knowledge of business topics and teachers to use for finding additional activities and lessons. The more I worked on the assignment, I began to realize how valuable it really is to be able to bookmark resources in one specific area to share with others. It is a great way to organize your resources. I must say along the way I found some cool websites to use in my classes in the future. All in all I think it was a well worth activity to do, although I did pop alot of headache meds along the way. Just part of learning something new I suppose.