Pageflakes

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[|From Wikipedia] Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Netvibes and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes. Each Flake varies in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, social networking tools like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email and user-created modules. Pageflakes has 250,000 Flakes and over 130,000 Pagecasts (publicly shared pages created by users with individual URLs).

The advantage of all the web 2.0 tools is that they are available on the Internet. You can be on any computer anywhere in the world and all you need is an Internet connection to access the tools and your documents that are saved there.

What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is what allows information to come to you automatically through aggregators, news readers and music sites like iTunes. You can see if a site has an RSS feed. It has one of these images on the page

Learn more about RSS from [|Quentin D'Souza's presentation] at the K12 Online Conference

rss url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/susanvg/pageflakes?" link="true" number="10"

Pageflakes Video Tutorial on [|TeacherTube]

Learn More
Learn more at: [|LEARN]


 * Embed the trafic cameras... check the drive home!
 * Get my news stories in the morning with a good coffee!
 * Building expertize by tapping into professional blog feeds etc.
 * Read blogs by other professionals

How can I use this with my students?

 * Students looking at multiple sources of news, points of view
 * Organize bookmarks and sites for projects or LES
 * Have an account per course and add pages for different LES
 * Use the task manager to remind them of tasks and deadlines