Friday, July 3, 2009

Gathering sites

I have been gathering sites that I run across and adding them to a Google document that is a work in progress, for sure. It all started before I heard about any online sites that gather bookmarks like deci.ous.com that I haven't visited more than once. I just got tired of switching computers and losing the link to sites that I might share.

I have had some issues with collaborating using Google, like the people couldn't get to the document that were invited. If you stumble on this blog and want to check out my doc so far, see you can access it by going here http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddp4xrwh_85frrkgtgv&hl=en
I don't know that you can, but if you sent me an email at etickner at gmail.com I'll invite you to collaborate.

Since I teach English, Spanish and ukulele at an Elementary school, most of what I have gathered are websites to help younger students, time wasters that could be used for mousing skills, links to safe photo or video sites since YouTube and Google video are blocked, sites that have some interesting music interactiveness or even lessons, math, social studies and science links are there and some art, too. I like having kids draw so when I find a site that helps them learn about that, it is added, too.

I have strayed away from linking to sites that have tons of links like Schrock's guide http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/ because I figure everyone knows about it and uses it if they want to. There are a couple of those sites, though, because when I started gathering, I saw value in not reinventing the wheel. I guess I could have a whole bold heading for that kind of site. That way I don't have to Google search when I want to use them.