Pageflakes – Teacher Edition – Teacher Education Classic Award Winner
Cris Guenter – California State University, Chico
David Wicks – Seattle Pacific University
If you know me, you know I like online video. If you know me well, you know that a large part of why I like online video is that you can often embed it in other places. I love anything embeddable. I really feel that there is a lot of potential in reusing bits of the web in this way. So, thought I know Pageflakes, Netvibes, and iGoogle very well, I came to the PageFlakes session in case there was a reason that Pageflakes was honored above Netvibes (in particular).
- So many teachers were using the site that they created a template: teacher.pageflakes.com.
- Showed an example of start page. Talked about how you can add widgets and RSS feeds. Talked about how you can publish your start page.
- Showed examples of all the things you can embed in the site.
- Can put almost anything you want on the pages.
- Compared with iGoogle, Netvibes, and Pageflakes: NV and PF seem to tie; iGoogle has limited customization and not sharable
- People were really blown away by the demonstration, so I guess I should say if you haven’t poked around with this type of thing, please go give it a try. I mean, really, people in the audience gasped when they showed how to retheme or move widgets around on the page.
I read about a site on John Chow’s blog today called http://www.43marks.com – its like Pageflakes and iGoogle but better cuz you can add you all your bookmarks and the bookmarks can be websites not just gadgets and RSS feeds although you can upload your favorite RSS feeds too. Its free and totally customizable re-arranging categories and bookmarks in anyway you want. I really do like 43marks much better. It’s great for teachers! They give you a unique URL (43MARKS.com/username) where you can upload bookmarks that are of interest to the class your teaching Just give out the URL so the the whole class can see the bookmarks