Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Curating Curriciulum

As the classroom starts to move into the digital age, it is very important to organize and save all of our digital tools and resources.  Soon all my students will have a device.  I want to start creating lesson plans that are based in the digital world.  There is so much available on the web that it becomes very overwhelming.  I know that I often bookmark everything that I can find and then my favorites list is a mile long.  I have to search through all the items to find what I need.  It is going to be very important for me to organize everything as I create my lesson plans.  I do not want to "recreate the wheel" each year.  

There are some great digital tools available to aid in organizing digital curriculum.  I love the idea of creating Symbaloo pages.  I teach 6 different math course.  I plan on creating a Symbaloo page for each of my math courses.  I can share these with my students.  The students and I can edit and make changes to these pages as needed.  

 Another great tool are Live Binders.  You can organize all your favorite websites into a digital binder.  I am well known for loving binders.  If you enter my classroom, I have several book cases filled with overstuffed binders.  These binders are a collection of my 16 years of teaching.  I love the idea that you can create a digital binder.  Maybe I clean off some of those bookshelves!

My goal is to find organizing tools so that anytime I find a great website, I can easily save it and organize it for my classes.  

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