Building Technology Coordinators

iKeepBookmarks & Del.icio.us

Janny Kerkhof — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:35:51 +0000

Friday - 10/24/08

It’s a miracle! I have had two days of slick and smooth iKeepBookmarks, the way it ought to be with our deluxe, super-speedy subscription. CTS intervention? iKeepBookmarks cleaning up its act? Whatever and however, let’s keep this going - I don’t know if anyone will read this but I’ll just keep at it. TGIF! J.

Wednesday, 10/22

Fellow BTCs: Submitted this to our BTC Groupwise mailbox a couple of days ago and no response so far. So, decided to put this on our BTC blog hoping someone out there has a magic solution for me ….. even though it was an “up” kind-of-a-day for iKeepBookmarks. Anyone out there?

http://ww2.iKeepBookmarks.com/reiche_elementary_school

iKeepbookmarks has been extremely unreliable since school started! Teachers just can’t rely on it anymore and this after an entire year of rebuilding and promoting the use of it both in- and outside school! I don’t know whether this problem is on our side or theirs but my guess is the latter. Here’s the problem: in the past I was able to get to iKBmarks with Firefox when Safari failed but Firefox is not working great either or let’s just say, differently this year (Firefox interface has changed as well …).

At this point I’m really thinking seriously about copying all my Reiche iKBmarks over to Del.icio.us so that I can use our bookmarks library again. Here’s the problem: the only way to get to Del.icio.us is through the authentication, Novell, login. So, if I want to use Del.icio.us as an iKBmarks back-up, the “world” will need to use my novel username & password. We have a Reiche teacher who is in that pickle - she built her own bookmarks d’base with Del.icio.us and can’t use it with her class.

Q1: Is there a way to free up Del.icio.us so that teachers who have a Del.icio.us account can use it with their students?
Q2: If that is not possible, is there a way to establish a second log-in for teachers with D accounts that can be shared with others? I.e. lee/ppsd or reiche/ppsd or whatever.

I’m waiting to hear from Jay. Any suggestions? Let me know what you’re thinking.

TX - Janny

Our New Year… 2008 - 2009

nilsec — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:38:07 +0000

We are off to a rocky start… some folks are scrambling around trying to make things work… and others are hitting the wall trying to get working on their work!!

It’s not been fun… on either side of the network. More updates to follow….

Thanks for visiting.

Hello world! First Post… September 2007

nilsec — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:52:52 +0000

We are the group of dedicated, industrious, energetic technology go-to people at each school site within the Portland Public Schools! Most of us in this group have well over 10 years of experience in this position; we hold a living history of the development and advancement of the use of technology across this large district.
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