Powerful Personal Portals

Perth (Oct 23)
The term "portal" is kind of old Web 1.0-ish concept (remember when everything was "My_"?) that is being reinvented using Web 2.0 technologies. Learn how to use free web tools such as Google Home Pages, PageFlakes or Netvibes to quickly and easy build custom portal-like web sites that aggregate information from multiple web sites, RSS feeds, and offer add-on "widgets" or small useful tools built into a web page; use to create topic hubs, student generated information resources, etc or to organize your own private web dashboard.



Old Portals (1990s buzz words)

• My Excite (1997) http://web.archive.org/web/19971211035704/http:my.excite.com/
• My Yahoo (1998) http://web.archive.org/web/19981212015816/http:my.yahoo.com/
• MyNetscape (2000) http://web.archive.org/web/20001206012200/http://my.netscape.com/

Examples

• iGoogle (demo form logged in) http://google.com/ig
• Alan's WA Demo http://www.pageflakes.com/cogdogroo
• People, Place and Pastimes
• Pageflakes - Tourism Hospitality networkED (THED)
• Helen's ProtoPage on ePortfolios
• Crimson Connect

More examples tagged in del.icio.us
[ http://del.icio.us/rss/cogdog/pportal+examples]

Personal Portal Tools tagged in del.icio.us
[ http://del.icio.us/rss/cogdog/pportal+tools]

Widgets
[ http://del.icio.us/rss/cogdog/pportal+widgets]

Simple PageFlakes Demo
Show steps how to produce http://www.pageflakes.com/cogdogroo/16044698
Need feeds/tags from sources
Blogs

• http://cogdogroo.wordpress
• http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/
• http://betch.edublogs.org/
• http://www.nswlearnscope.com/

Photos

• http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/
• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/perth/
• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/surf

Bookmarks

• http://del.icio.us/cogdog
• http://del.icio.us/tag/math
• http://del.icio.us/tag/perth