Pageflakes (Thing #21)

Pageflakes is just one of those sites. It could become a terrible time swallower if you’re not careful! There’s just too much to choose from.

I already use iGoogle (and waste a lot of time there) but really liked the K12 Learning 2.0 template. It gave me some great ideas to customize my own page. I may change up my iGoogle based on what I learned today  but make my pageflakes more student centered.  I like the idea of using stickies to communicate with your class etc. but isn’t that the purpose of a blog too? It took me some time to drill the idea ofchecking the blog into my students’ heads. Student ”I didn’t know the assignment”  Me “Did you check my blog”? student “oh yeah”. So, I would hate to ask them to switch over to a new site for communicating. Maybe next year.

The advantage to pageflakes could be to entice your students to read articles you’ve chosen etc. You could make a cool history or economics centered pageflakes where they could go for their assignments and just a click away would be great resources for them. It’d be like one stop shopping! The Walmart of history class so to speak.