Week+5

Week 5


 * Social Bookmarking, Publisher, and Rubrics **

** Description ** Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows a user to save their Internet bookmarks online. Instead of saving bookmarks to your computer's web browser, you are saving them to the web and can access them anywhere with an Internet connection. This is a great way that users can collect, organize and search through bookmarked websites, especially if they frequently use multiple computers. The "bookmarking" uses tags which help you to save, organize, and identify all of your favorite websites. So, why is it "social" bookmarking? Users can search bookmarks of other Delicious members and easily share them with co-workers and friends.

What is Social Bookmarking?
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Highlights of Delicious

 * Access all your favorite webpages from any computer linked to the internet.
 * Load Delicious on all the computers you use and add tags at anytime.
 * Tag your sites to stay organized.
 * Share your hyperlinks with others.
 * Make your del.icio.us site public or private.
 * See how many others have your favorite site(s) loaded.
 * Find helpful sites to use with the curriculum you teach within Delicious

As an instructor, how can Delicious be helpful to you and your students?
[|Delicious.com] __Who should register__? Teachers __Does the site require an email address to browse websites on the site__? No, anyone can view public pages. __Does the site require an email address to create an account__? Yes, you must have an account to create a site. __Are there privacy settings available__? Yes.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A great tool for sharing lists of web sites.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Keep track of bookmarks for yourself.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Create lists of relevant links for your students (and share them!)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">See what other people are bookmarking.

Several notable Instruction Technology experts openly share their delicious accounts as well in order to quickly share their resources and those of their colleagues. <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Will Richardson = [] David Warlick = [] Ok, I will share mine as well: Jenn Chloupek= http://delicious.com/jeneuba <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Equipment Needed ** <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">All you need to use delicious is a computer connected to the internet, and a free account. Go to [|Delicious] to sign up. Some users choose to [|download buttons] to their browser that allow them to quickly open their delicious page, and tag a URL to their delicious account. At school, you will need to contact your Technology Coordinator to install them. You can add [|Bookmarklet buttons] in Internet Explorer or Firefox.



<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Assignment
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once you have signed up for a Delicious account and have your username, please share your URL with others by using the discussion tab at the top of this page. Remember you can mark sites "private".

=**P**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**ublisher** = <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

Microsoft Publisher is a program that has wide-ranging uses in the classroom for a teacher and for students. Even though the program is fairly user-friendly, when using it with students they should be slowly integrated into the program and all that it offers. Today we will be exploring different aspects of this program, and how it can be integrated within your classroom.



Do you foresee using Publisher for within your classroom?
 * __Discussion Board:__**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">If no, explain what you think the limitation of this program would be.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">If yes, explain give an example of how you would integrate it (document type/content integration).
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[Make it brief...no more than a paragraph.]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(Two strands have already been started on the discussion board.)


 * R<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">ubric Making **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

Now that you are being to experience how to create projects using technology, you need to determine how you would grade a project for both content and technology. Baltimore County’s Office of Instructional Technology places great emphasis on assessing both content and technology. Review the two websites below to see pre-made scoring tools you can modify to meet your needs

[|BCPS Scoring tools] [|Rubri Star] A free website to construct a rubric-- funded by a grant through the US Department of Education.

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Please make your rubric is sent to either Jenn or Beth by March 10th- we do not have class this week- so please make sure you send it via email.