Just Started my Portaportal

I can see that Portaportal is going to be very handy, especially if I have to turn in the laptop I am currently using, and risk losing all my bookmarks.  I have categories for school (reading, writing, math, science, social studies, teaching) and for the other side of my life, calligraphy.

One of the concerns I have heard many teachers express is how to know that a site is useful and appropriate for their students.  We want to be sure that we are giving our students the best resources available.  If a site has been vetted by other teachers and added to their own Portaportal, that is certainly a step in the right direction. I know I will be checking out other teachers' pages to see what they recommend.

When my kids were in elementary school, their favorite teacher had an incredible webpage (Yay, Mr. T!).  He encouraged kids to check out all the links he had collected for them, and in so doing, gave them the freedom to explore the web in a safe way.  As long as they were on a link from his website, parents were assured they were not in danger from the scary www.  (This was a few years ago, when not everyone was as comfortable with the internet as they are today.)

Although I am not as tech-saavy as Mr. T, I hope that my portaportal page will eventually become a similar sort of resource for my students.