Educational uses with Portaportal

Portaportal is a great resource to use in the educational setting. It is a convenient method to share websites with colleagues and students.

Portaportal is a quick and easy way to pull up websites during teacher in-services. If you want to share a specific website during an in-service, you can just pull up your portal and click on the website. If a teacher cannot make the in-service, and you still want them to see the website, you could give that teacher your portal username and they could logon as a guest and view the website at their convenience.

Portaportal can also be used with students. On the portaportal home page, a teacher praises portaportal because of its time saving ability. The teacher says with portaportal, “the kids don't get bored while I peck away trying to type in an address.” Portaportal makes it easy for teachers to share numerous websites in the computer lab without having to bookmark the site on every computer in the lab. The teacher can save their portal on the goodies drive and have students access it there. Students can also access the portal from home using the guest access. This would allow the students to complete projects at home using the websites.

Check out the portal I have created to share websites with my colleagues and students.

A few other social bookmarking sites are Delicious, My Book Marks, and Diigo.

Here you can find the Top 30 Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Sites as of October 2008.