As I’ve noted previously, pageflakes.net is an awesome example of a widget based start page (widget and feed aggregator on steroids) that has tons of options in an educational setting. Today (thanks to a post by Jane Hart), I just realized that pageflakes also has a tailored start page for students and teachers under a “students” tab. I also stumbled on the edutechwiki pageflakes page that outlines how-to suggestions for using pageflakes in education (for class management or as a PLE). So simple, yet so powerful. Cool!
p.s. The edutechwiki, created by the edtech research and teaching unit at the University of Geneva, has some really interesting edtech and instructional design content – worth a close look and more commentary in a future post!
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The Pagecast Feature is great. It allows me to setup a page for my students (7th grade) within minutes. The http://student.pagflakes.com template is a good starting point but there so much more in their galleries to choose from.
Jim
i spelled the URL wrong, should be: http://student.pageflakes.com
jim