http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-17727 Jim Farmer Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:22:00 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/#comment-17727 I am excited about the extremely useful Web 2.0 tools that educators have access to. The one tool that has been my savior is netvibes. This site, more than any other Web 2.0 tool, has so many features and is so customizable that I can't live without it now. I can easily add and check any RSS feed I want (this one included), check email (school accout, gmail account, and any other account), have a flickr show running for as many accounts as I can stand, access my box.net, writely, and irows files with a single click, and sooo much more. I truly believe that the potential of having an easy to use netbased jack-of-all trades service is finally being realized and it's called netvibes. I swear I don't work for them. I'm a tech coordinator and teacher in a small town in GA. Open up your web experiences to whole new levels, checkout: www.netvibes.com I am excited about the extremely useful Web 2.0 tools that educators have access to. The one tool that has been my savior is netvibes. This site, more than any other Web 2.0 tool, has so many features and is so customizable that I can’t live without it now. I can easily add and check any RSS feed I want (this one included), check email (school accout, gmail account, and any other account), have a flickr show running for as many accounts as I can stand, access my box.net, writely, and irows files with a single click, and sooo much more. I truly believe that the potential of having an easy to use netbased jack-of-all trades service is finally being realized and it’s called netvibes. I swear I don’t work for them. I’m a tech coordinator and teacher in a small town in GA. Open up your web experiences to whole new levels, checkout: http://www.netvibes.com

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-17479 Graham Wegner Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:24:13 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/#comment-17479 Wes, I think that the use of StartPages that use RSS and website shortcuts would give educators a more dynamic and multimedia tool. See my <a href="http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/09/16/startpages-a-quick-comparison/" rel="nofollow">recent post</a> on rating StartPage tools as a quick start - there are so many more features and they offer a great way to start gluing all of the web 2.0 tools together. I tend to agree with Tim's assessment - but it is exactly his familiarity with Web 2.0 tools that allows him to quickly do so. Wes, I think that the use of StartPages that use RSS and website shortcuts would give educators a more dynamic and multimedia tool. See my recent post on rating StartPage tools as a quick start – there are so many more features and they offer a great way to start gluing all of the web 2.0 tools together. I tend to agree with Tim’s assessment – but it is exactly his familiarity with Web 2.0 tools that allows him to quickly do so.

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-17470 Education/Technology » Blog Archive » PortaPortal Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:56:07 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/09/24/portaportal-and-flexibly-learning-new-tools/#comment-17470 [...] Web Fryer has a post about a bookmarking tool called PortaPortal. Some folks in my school district have also looked at this tool and I am having a hard time understanding why they find it so interesting. Here you have a tool that does not support RSS, does not even have a bookmarklet for teachers to use to add sites. The process for adding sites is cumbersome, and you can’t add any descriptive information about the sites that you are pointing people to. Finally, the site looks like it is stuck in some 1997 web site time warp. I mean, come on, look at those goofy buttons. [...] [...] Web Fryer has a post about a bookmarking tool called PortaPortal. Some folks in my school district have also looked at this tool and I am having a hard time understanding why they find it so interesting. Here you have a tool that does not support RSS, does not even have a bookmarklet for teachers to use to add sites. The process for adding sites is cumbersome, and you can’t add any descriptive information about the sites that you are pointing people to. Finally, the site looks like it is stuck in some 1997 web site time warp. I mean, come on, look at those goofy buttons. [...]

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