Share Your Treasures with the World!
Ever find a great site at home but have it bookmarked on a different computer? These sites will let you store you bookmarks online so you'll have them no matter what device you are using. Our teachers have been using portaportal for years and have bookmarked literally thousands of sites based on Virginia SOLs for elementary students. Looking for other ways to get to your information? Try a social bookmarking site like delicious.com to see how many other people have also bookmarked that site plus get the added bonus of being able to bookmark and categorize (tag) links directly from the page you are on. Want even more control of your bookmarking? Try Diigo. Instead of just bookmarking, Diigo allows you to highlight text and attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages. Diigo highlights and sticky notes are persistent in the sense that whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!
PortaPortal
- The talented third grade teacher from Jackson Via, Megan Wortman, shares “mwortman”
- The amazing math specialist from Johnson, Summerlynn Thompson, shares “mathisfun”
- The wonderful media specialist from Venable, Donna Morris, shares “morrisd2”
- The incredible second grade teacher from Greenbrier, Becky Horal, shares “horair1”
- The spectacular first grade teacher from Jackson Via, Abigail Amoako, shares “amoakoa1”
- The awe-inspiring third grade teacher from Greenbrier, Carmella Johnson, shares “gbr”
- The tremendous math specialist from Clark, Tracy Watterson, shares “wattert2”
- The ingenious first grade teacher from Clark, Mary Johnston, shares “clarkfirstgrade”
- The supporting ITRT, Becca Gibson, shares “gibsonr1”
- The fantastic reading specialist from Johnson, Deborah Ward-McKeon, shares "wardd1"
Diigo
Make sure that when you sign up for Diigo you get an educator account. What are Diigo Educator Accounts? These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators. Once your Diigo Educator application is approved, your account will be upgraded to have these additional features:
- You can create student accounts for an entire class with just a few clicks (and student email addresses are optional for account creation)
- Students of the same class are automatically set up as a Diigo group so they can start using all the benefits that a Diigo group provides, such as group bookmarks and annotations, and group forums.
- Privacy settings of student accounts are pre-set so that only teachers and classmates can communicate with them.
- Ads presented to student account users are limited to education-related sponsors.
Delicious
The Web is a big place, full of new and interesting things to discover. The problem is finding the good stuff and keeping track of it all. This is where Delicious can help.
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you. Join Now!
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you. Join Now!
