M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

After setting up bookmark sites for the students & the staff, I finally set up one for myself. These are the links that I use most often when setting up a golden drive.  I’ll start moving in more links as I use them.

My new bookmark site is:

http://guest.portaportal.com/mlbvtech

After last week’s Oaks/Tesa training, I realized that I couldn’t put off making a bookmark site for our staff, similar to our Student bookmark page.  Here is the result:

http://www.guest.portaportal.com/mlbvstaff 

Like all sites, it started with just one or two categories but it is already growing by leaps & bounds.

Having bookmarks available all in one place, no matter which computer you are on, is a pleasure. It makes things so much easier and faster. Best of all, it is easy to share with others.

The Internet has been an amazing place. I’ve been using it for over 20 years and messages and ideas that I sent out when I started still come back to visit me.  I had a message from some one in South Africa who wanted to know about a project that I did in 1988!

Two of my favorite Mac newsletters are from Small Dog Electronics. They are fun, easy to read & very useful.

http://www.smalldog.com/subscribe.html

Tech Tails is the more technical newsletter while Kibbles & Bytes is a more general newsletter. This is also where I hear about useful Widgets for my MacBook.

Today, I posted a blog page that is an article from their newsletter about transferring files from a Windows to a Mac.

Even better, here is a tip from the latest newsletter. Check out the screen shot below. Click on it to open in another window.

I love this bookmark manger. It’s easy to use and, most importantly for students, a very clean and uncluttered look. They have now added the option to use it without any ads. The price is quite reasonable too. $15 per year for 5 accounts.

We only have one account so far but have talked about adding two more: one for parents and another for staff.

http://my.portaportal.com/ 

You can see the links for MLBV and Howard Elementary portaportals on the right.

I’ve decided that the best place to keep the notes and ideas about the various projects I am working on would be here in a blog. Until now, I would write up how I did things in a Word document and file it on my computer. I think a blog would be a better place.

1. I can access it from anywhere.
2. I can get ideas from other people.
3. It can be a resource for other users.