Pageflakes



Pageflakes is your personalized homepage on the Web. Your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere. What's more, you can collaborate on your page with your friends, or publish it to the entire world.
 * What is Pageflakes?**

Individual OR group/class pages (collaborative projects) Digital storytelling: Example from Will Richardson: [|This page on Darfur/Sudan] is built on tag feeds from [|YouTube] for videos, [|Flickr] for photos, the [|New York Times] AND the [|Sudan Tribune] for news, [|del.icio.us] for what people are bookmarking, and [|Google Blogsearch] for blogs. Project based activities Organizational site for students and teachers Examples from [|Daniel Schneider] Keep track of student blogs using the RSS feeds Organize blogs or news feeds on a topic that you want to keep up with and read
 * Educational Uses**

Pageflakes has 3 levels of access: Private (individual), public (everyone), and shared (group)
 * Creating a Pageflakes Site**
 * 1) Go to the [|Pageflakes] homepage and register. There is also a [|Pageflakes for Students and Teachers]
 * 2) Add flakes
 * Add Flake (top right button).
 * Add pages if needed
 * Move flakes from one page to another by dragging them over the tabs.
 * 1) Click the edit button to customize your flakeSharing:


 * Helpful Flakes (from [|techwithme wiki])**
 * Writing**:
 * [|NotePad] (e.g. to write small accounts, announcements, etc.)
 * [|Blog] (small blog with basic functions: articles, commenting, formatting and picture insertion).
 * [|Note] (Sticky messages, e.g. to be used for directions and announcements)
 * [|Zoho Writer Documents] (Interface to Zoho, one of the better online tools).
 * Communication:**
 * [|Mail] let's you get mail from major online provides (e.g. Google) plus your own popup.
 * [|Message Board] (sharable).

**Planning:**

 * [|To-Do-List]
 * [|Class Schedule]
 * [|Calendar]

**File Management:**

 * [|Box.net Online Storage] (your free 1GB harddisk)

Pageflakes FAQ (Courtesy from FAQ/Pageflakes)
 * [[file:PageFlakes.doc]]**