Homepage Startup

Three posts in three days. This will never happen again (my goal is a weekly post). Call it beginner's enthusiasm. I wanted to be sure to have some content up before I shared the exciting news about the birth of this blog!

This is supposed to be a blog about technology tools for educators, but I have yet to feature one. Today is the day. I was recently asked by a teacher how to access web sites on her classroom computer which she had bookmarked on her home computer. I explained social bookmarking sites (like del.icio.us), but after going to Lori Cooney's "Best Free Web Sites" session at the MassCUE Technology Leadership Symposium I think there may be a better choice for elementary school teachers. Lori showcased a site called Homepage Startup. This site provides you with fast access to your favorite web sites in a visual form. You can create multiple tabs to organize your sites and customize things like background color and number of columns and rows. Accounts are free and you can easily share your Startup page with others. I've been playing around with the site - here is a link to what I've created.

If you are interested in checking out more of the sites Lori showcased, visit her NetVibe's page (another cool tool), which has links to all the sites she showcased in her presentation.