It appears that Edtec 448 and Weles are popular tags for our group, as well as the tag "explore," which tells me we are focused on finding things that can enhance our students understanding of topics. Other popular tags incuded chemistry, visual aids, technology, projects, professional development, student applications, and teacher resources. With the exception o the chemistry tag, all the others are in keeping with our group's classification system. There were many minor tags, including current events and assessments. Those tags were part of our classification system as well. I think the most interesting thing was the fact that the "explore" tag was among the more popular tags, although it was not in our classification system.

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this site has a feature story in the middle school section which explains the engineering of a squirt gun

[livemark:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/default.stm]

NASA site on climate change with maps. This can be used to deliver lessons on climate change

This site has great images of cells that can be used to enhance our cell unit. Images could be used in a power point or smartboard presentation to help kids visualize cells

This site has a simulation of the Peppered Moth that can be used to demonstrate natural selection

This is an educational wiki site. It is free for educators. I have just started using it with my gifted class and so far it has been well received by them.

free wiki pages for educators; students do not need an email address to access page

This SIte features sounds that could be used in a power point or smartboard presentation

sounds you can use in a power point or smartboard presentation

This Site features Video Clips that can be downloaded and used to enhance a lesson or introduce a lesson

small video clips you can use to introduce a lesson

This site contains still science images that could be used in power point or smartboard presentations

This site features an Animation of cell mitosis

free power point presentations you can download by subject and "tweak"

This site has both a tutorial and simulation of how to use and read a triple beam balance

tutorial and simulation for how to read a triple beam balance

smartboard templates

Jeremy,
Thanks for getting us started on this!
How about teacher resources? I don't know what to call it...but I am thinking something with rubrics, clip art, templates, etc. Ideas? General resources?

How about science news sites? (I think someone mentioned that)

Maybe animations/interactive sites?

We need to get enough tags (maybe 5 or 6?) that are broad enough we can each post 10 sites to

Is there someone who wants to volunteer to post our "tags?" I won't be able to be able to get to it until tomorrow night. Let me know if you want me to do it then.

Thank you Dawn!!! It looks great; I am looking forward to getting everyone's sites...the power of sharing really is great!

I had a lot of tags which I had imported from Delicious, so at first my classification system appeared overwhelming to me. Delicious has a way of bundling tags, but Diigo uses lists, so it took me a while to organize my sites. I ended up with several categories, some of which only have a few tags at this point (such as watersheds), others of which have many tags (such as lesson prep). I think that as I use Diigo that I will gain confidence in organizing my work. I tried to lump items together that made sense to me, but may find I have to move things around if I run into issues. So far I like Diigo and am very excited about the highlighter and sticky note function; what a great way to make notes on sites as I prepare my lessons.

Hi Jeremy,
We are supposed to comment (similarity/differences) on each others classification systems. Similarity: I also organized my system by content area so make it easier to find bookmarked sites. Differences: I also included professional development and teacher tools (places to find clip art, for example) in my classifying. Next we are supposed to pick several main classes (tags???) and agree on them to build them. Do you have any suggestions for those we would have in common? We all teach different areas of math/science.

Hi Jeremy,
I like how you are organizing your work. Is there a way to make "levels" in diigo? I couldn't really figure it out (kinda like folders within folders?).

I'm not sure what you meant by your organization in delicious. Are you saying you are not incorporating essential elements and instructional methods in your classification scheme? If so, I agree with you since that is not how I organize by nature. I'm more of a topic person, with the topic being driven by my curriculum. I really feel like I need to go back in and look at each of my bookmarks to see if I need to add additional tags to them (to make them easier to find).

It sounds like we did the same thing with regards to our classification system. This is pretty cool to form a group; guess we can tap into other people's bookmarks which may make our job even easier.

Hi again,
We are supposed to comment on similarites and differences b/n our classification systems. Next, we all need to agree on a set of main classes (tags, I guess?) to build a community system of tagging.
Similiarities: like you, I classified by content/subject taught (I think we all did). Differences: I put generic teacher prep items in a different class, as opposed to placing them in a hierarchy like you did.

Ideas for shared classes: how about professional development as one? teacher tools as another (sites for rubrics, ect). We all teach different types/levels of sciences/math. Can you think of any overlapping tags for content?