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I've recently developed a site entitled Web2Teach that is intended to provide a small number of high quality resource sites for teachers. One goal is to identify the best sites available for teachers. To identify the most valuable sites available, I'm using the social bookmarking site Delicious. By looking for tags such as k12, education, lessons and content terms (e.g., science, biology, cells) I'm able to get a good sense of what teachers are finding useful.

Another goal of the site is to provide some specific pages that teachers can use to address more immediate needs. For example, if a teacher is looking for some materials for a unit on matter, first they must find a good science site, then search for applicable materials. Using Delicious and tagging should enable me to provide a much more efficient mechanism to support this type of search.

A final goal for the site is to provide as much context as possible. This context includes teacher reviews, appropriate levels and type of materials (e.g., media, lessons, assessments). Adding this contextual information might end up being the greatest challenge - at least technologically.