Thing 8 is Great!

This may be my favorite thing yet. One, because it is something brand new to me, two, I love working smarter, not harder and three, I don't think educators share enough with each other and this is a great way to do that! As soon as I started adding bookmarks to my delicious site, I couldn't wait to tell all my co-workers about it. It seems like such a simple idea: I have some good sights, you have some good sites, we both teach math-lets share. I try to use the internet as a resource form my at-risk students. We go to the lab and find videos, notes, games... on whatever topic we are learning is class. We print several different versions of notes for students to choose from, we copy and paste instructional video clips into Word and make copies for everyone to take home and do the same for interactive practice games. This would be a great application for social bookmarking. Not only would it save paper and time, it would eliminate students duplicating the same sites. (Sometimes several students will print the same notes from the same website to contribute to our class.) Next year, I would like to build a class delicious site to compile our websites throughout the school year. I think this would also help students review things covered earlier in the class (since I am sure they will have lost all notes by then). I would also like to use this within my department. I seems silly to have 5 math teachers in one building and not share good information. This may be the one "thing" I really use daily. I am hooked!