For years I’ve owned the domain labanca.net.  I would point my domain to a school server and use my address to phantom to the school’s address.  Recently the cost of domain forwarding has been increasing to the point of it being illogical for me not to just own the site myself.  To that end, I recently migrated my site to Bluehost and have been very happy with the way the system works. 

So, even though I have not migrated my homepage, I’ve been enjoying converting my “pet projects” to the bluehost account. I like the way my name appears for website addresses instead of some third-party host.  My blog changed from:  problemfinding.blogspot.com to problemfinding.labanca.net

Suprisingly, I was able to add LimeSurvey software, and this has made a simple data collection method.  For my dissertation, I coded my own instruments, then had to collect data that came via email, transfer each individual file to an Excel spreadsheet and then analyze.  Now it’s a one-click operation.  Easy and user-friendly.  surveys.labanca.net

Finally, I’ve added a wiki as part of a Statistics Course I am teaching at Western Connecticut.  I am using the Wikipedia sofware:  mediawiki.  Although there have been a few glitches, I am pleased with the 21st-century concepts that I often speak.  These tools allow me to focus on concepts and content instead of web coding.  Type it and view it.  My job is that of an educator, not of a web designer.  I need to help my students understand ideas.  If I had to spend time worrying about code, I think I would not have the time to develop ideas (hopefully) well.