Mon August 26: fun with portaportal, part one

Greetings, and welcome back!

Last week, I introduced you to the concept of online file storage. We made use of a website called box.com, and began exploring some of it's many uses. Trust me, children, we will be making use of "the Box" over and over again. But today we will begin a new topic: online bookmarking. I would like to begin by explaining the two basic reasons why it is important that you are all able to do this:

A) we will be using a huge number of websites during the rest of the year. There will be many classes where I instruct you to go find websites that support some work you are doing

B) Since you aren't using your own personal computer, you can't just set up a "favorites" list that can only be found on one computer

To work around this, I have discovered a website called PortaPortal, which allows you to save favorite websites to one single place online.
CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED-->

http://www.portaportal.com/

HERE IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU GET THERE1) when you get to the website, click on the big "SIGNUP" button off to the left

2) on the next page, you will see a place to type in your first and last name, your login name, your password and your email address. It might be helpful to you if you use the same login name and password for this as for your email, but that's just one man's opinion

3) On the next page, it says that you are already logged in AND that a confirmation email has been sent to your email account. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, GO TO YOUR EMAIL FIRST, and find that email that portaportal has sent to you. It should say something like "portaportal membership"

4) When you read that email, you will find your username and password. Just below that, there is a link to click to confirm your account. CLICK THAT LINK!

5) Clicking that link brings you to a screen which says "thanks for confirming". Next to that, you will see a link that says "Return to Portal" Click that link.

When everybody is at this point, we can begin part two. If you get there early, please feel free to check out some of the features on your own while you are waiting

Cheers,
Mr. L