Thing 21 – Pageflakes
Just when i think my brain won’t learn anything else, here comes PAGEFLAKES!!!! What fun. I named my page Fincher’s Frivolous Favorites, knowing that i would spend hours looking through the ADD A FLAKE icon. I did get to page 35 and finally realized it wouldn’t quit. It’s like being in a Baskin-Robbins Icecream store with 100’s of flavors to choose from. I added quite a few fun things to my page, but skipped over things like US CURRENT DEBT and Pubwalks, even though they both look so interesting. I just spoke with our media specialist at SHS and she says she loves Pageflakes and used them all the time to create research links for many of the classes that come into the media center. I am thinking i need to add a page to my Pageflakes with all of my favorite Learning 2.0 things!!!!
Hey Deanie,
Web 2.0 applications are mind-blogging! There are so many free apps out there that it is just so hard to determine which one would best “fit” into the curriculum you are teaching! Loved the Baskin-Robbins thingy!
A teacher cannot use ALL of the ones you have encountered in this course, and she/he will need to decide just which one(s) are best for their students’ learning. Teachers, I think, need to focus on how the apps will engage their students and help them learn, and of course, meet the GPS. (And, there is the “time factor” and it comes up in EVERYTHING! “I don’t have time to do project-based learning”, etc.) What’s the answer? I really don’t have an answer! Just think about those schools that are teaching from a script! They have no time whatsoever to incorporate these great Web 2.0 tool into their classrooms!
Woe is me! I could go on and on, but I will stop ranting for now! I don’t even want to go there with NCLB or Testing!!!!
Jerrie