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Delicious Social Bookmarking Service

One of my favorite Web 2.0 tools is my Delicious account, which can be found at []. Delicious is a social bookmarking site that provides users with a way to find, tag, save, manage and share web pages all in one place. So.....why is Delicious such a yummy site? In my opinion, it's because it makes it easy to access many different websites, documents, and videos from any computer at any time. I can also share bookmarks with people and access bookmarks that they send to me. This, of course, will help me quickly find what I'm looking for when I need it, which sure beats having to dig through a stuffed file cabinet or scan the seemingly endless list of bookmarks found in my "Favorites". Additionally, it is an excellent way to organize information, because I can categorize my bookmarks into different tags. Delicious lends itself to increased differentiation, as information specific to a certain student's area of disability and learning style can be found and then utilized to facilitate their success within the curriculum. One the drawbacks of Delicious is the time it will take to explore, read, view, and select the appropriate information or intervention component for a student. However, that is the nature of the Web 2.0 beast -- so much information, so little time! I plan to use Delicious to find, organize, and share information relating to curricular content as I support students to be successful within the curriculum. Many of the available sites will also be an excellent resource to use when working with students with language delays, learning disabilities, speech intelligibility challenges, language memory deficits, autism and other speech and language impairments. I have already found some great videos that I plan to use during therapy with a student who stutters. Finally, I will use Delicious to gain knowledge and develop staff in-service training tools.

Wiki: Another Web 2.0 tool that I think is awesome is Wiki. Although I was already a member of several Wikis, I had not independently created one until taking this class. I have now created a Franklin Public Schools website which will offer a collaborative forum for sharing and discussing autism related information. As a member of the Franklin Public Schools core Autism Support team, I have sent out countless e-mails with attachments and snail-mailed articles and flyers in an effort to consistently communicate with other core team members and our school-based autism liaisons. This wiki, although definitely a work in progress, with facilitate communication and collaboration, and can be found at [], The autism support team wiki will facilitate differentiated instruction, as staff will be able to learn about and discuss different strategies specific to learners with autism and apply them to students in their classrooms. Wiki participants will learn about specific communication systems and instructional methods that can be proactively put into place, and information about sensory integration and social anxiety related to autism can be shared. The wiki will also serve as a central location for members to gain and share information on a 24/7 basis. However, as I know that I am guilty of neglecting wikis that I have joined in the past, I predict that one of the main drawbacks will be that team members may not consistently check on the autism wiki to find updated information. We may be able to off-set this by establishing an agreed-upon review timeline that can be determined when we meet in the fall.

//**My KHN Chart Before Instruction:**//


 * //My KHN Chart After Instruction://**

Here's the address for the cool new wiki that I developed in class -- thanks for the insight! http://fps-autismsupportteam.wikispaces.com/

Below are my results from one the multiple intelligences surveys taken in class: **__My Relative Multiple Intelligence Strengths__**