Since it is summer, and I’m not reading and writing my National Board entries, I have some relaxing time on my hand.  Yes, it is time for family and friends and leisure, but teachers know it is also a time to reorganize, think, and prepare for next year.  Which practices will I keep?  Which need tweeking?  Which need to go to the recycle bin?

A good friend of mine is going to be teaching 4th grade reading, language arts and social studies to optional and traditional students next year and was interested in some of the websites I gathered last year during my National Board application work. First I thought I’d just copy and paste the sites in an email, but then I remembered  delicious.com.  (It is a social bookmarking/storage site.) I registered and then did some poking around. I typed in “Special Education” and received a whole bunch of new and I might add, exciting sites to explore and make my own.  As members save sites, the sites are tagged with the pertinent categories (literacy, teaching, recipes, politics, etc). Having explored all this, I began transferring my personal favorite Google , Firefox and StumbleUpon bookmarks to delicious.com, tagging each.  I will be adding more daily until school starts, and then I’ll add them as I find them. You should be able to access my bookmarks by clicking on the link(s) below.  If you’re a teacher going through the National Board process this year, or just a teacher preparing for next year, you may find some useful information for you and your students.  I hope so.