So far most of these tools are interactive sites that we use with our students to provide a e more engaging , compelling, interesting, and competitive education for our 21st century learners. Porta Portal is one way to organize them all. A Porta Portal is a site that you design and organize specific sites for students to use in their day to day work for you. The sites are already there and ready. The student does not have to search for them and they are easily accessible. There is no cause to get on a questionable site when looking for something else. So this is a safe place for you to collect the sites you want students to use.
Once you design your site and add you desired addresses, you are pretty much done until you want to add more , change the arrangement , or color. The one thing I try to do each year is make sure that all the sites are still linking, My example needs to be gone over and fixed / removed becasue there are soem sites that are no longer working,
If your class does a lot of web work, always point the students to your portal portal- for an easy way to get students to find out what they need to know.
Here is the link to the portal portal that I designed many years ago. There are a couple of links that no longer work and need to be removed.
http://my.portaportal.com/
Here is the link that will bring you to where you can sign up and design your own porta portal. Follow the prompts on the left hand side to create your own portal. When you are logged in you can begin to organize and add your sites. Create categories that make sense for your students. It is pretty easy to get this up and running. Have fun!
http://www.portaportal.com/index.php
Once you design your site and add you desired addresses, you are pretty much done until you want to add more , change the arrangement , or color. The one thing I try to do each year is make sure that all the sites are still linking, My example needs to be gone over and fixed / removed becasue there are soem sites that are no longer working,
If your class does a lot of web work, always point the students to your portal portal- for an easy way to get students to find out what they need to know.
Here is the link to the portal portal that I designed many years ago. There are a couple of links that no longer work and need to be removed.
http://my.portaportal.com/
Here is the link that will bring you to where you can sign up and design your own porta portal. Follow the prompts on the left hand side to create your own portal. When you are logged in you can begin to organize and add your sites. Create categories that make sense for your students. It is pretty easy to get this up and running. Have fun!
http://www.portaportal.com/index.php
