Reflection from class 9/9

My favorite activity in class today was signing up for my Delicious account.  I’m also going to teach my mother, whose currently a fifth grade math teacher, how to set up an account.  I’m excited to start adding websites and preparing myself for future lessons plans.  It makes my dream of becoming a teacher so much more real and tangible for me.  I also love the idea of being able to share resources with other, more experienced teachers so easily.  I know I’ll benefit from exploring their collections of findings from over the years.  There are many interactive websites my teachers let me explore in school, especially games practicing math and reading skills that I know my teachers would love to share with me.  I can now start organizing all that information in one, easily accessible place.  This is going to make it so much easier to help individualize lesson plans for the students who are significantly above or below the average class level.  For example, if a child is far ahead of his grade level in math, I can let him explore more complex puzzles and math concepts using interactive gaming websites while I personally address the rest of the class with the lesson for the day.  If I had many of these helpful websites on file, using Delicious I could search “interactive math” the great websites I’ve complied with that tag will come up.  This will save me a lot of time because I will not have to go home and search Google and test out every math website.  I will already have found, or other teachers have found and tested the ones I add to my Delicious account.  I will definitely utilize this tool when planning my lesson plans in my classroom.