THING 21 Pageflakes - They’re greaaaat!
April 30, 2008 by atlantapeachteach
OK - Another great tool that we’ve learned is Pageflakes. The organizer in me really loves this one. I love the idea that I can put everything on one site. First I played with the theme and layout, and I chose “flowers” as my background design. Then I put the weather, my edublog, and a calendar at the top. I also have my gmail account, national news, local news, the market report and a daily comic or two. Driving directions, some news feeds, and a news podcast were also added. I named it “Paula’s Page.”
Basically, for now I have decided to use it for me personally - mainly to organize a lot of my internet use. But I can definitely see classroom use for this tool. I liked Will Richardson’s page about the Crisis in Darfur, and I think that is a great way to use pageflakes in Social Studies. I will definitely consider adding a project using pageflakes.
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Another start page website to consider is Odysen at http://www.odysen.com.
A couple of the key advantages include free formatting widgets, which allow you to make the size of the widget to whatever you want, and integrated news feeds, allowing you to integrate as many news feeds as you want in one news widget.
There is also a blog available that reviews key features and many page examples, located at http://odysen.blogspot.com.
I thought that Pageflakes was fairly easy to use. But when I clicked on Paula’s Page all I got was Pageflakes home page. Got something to hide (;>?