Reflecting Pools

For every 7th grade student who’s ever said, “I couldn’t find it; I lost the URL; I couldn’t remember how to get to it; I couldn’t remember what we were supposed to do, look at, read, create, study, or anything else–there’s Pageflake.

It will take me some time to gather all of the resources that I’d like to embed and link for my language arts classes, with another page for my honors American history classes, but I can imaging a number of ways to create great resource centers.

With a presidential vote in November, I can envision an election Pagecast with feeds from conservative and liberal US newspapers/services (for comparison), as well as international feeds to see how the process is viewed around the world. Feeds from the Democratic and Republic headquarters would also provide party and platform differences. I can’t even begin to imagine what feeds I might find in terms of polls, predictions, and election results.

I can imagine a pagecast on the Olympics, complete with RSS feeds by country (US being one of the definites, as well as China as the host city), individual sports and events, medal count, individual athletes, personal interest stories, videos and podcasts from events, history of China and of the Olympics, and on the list would go.

My language arts classes would love the Pagecast I’d create for them: calendar with due dates, dictionary, advanced Google search, Quizlet portal, Library Thing portal, school database portal, topical links, portals to view Google presentations, links to citationmachine.net and other writing support sites, and much more! It would be the one stop resource center.

It’s easy to use Pageflakes. I just need a bunch of time to get myself organized! Meanwhile, the ideas keep coming….

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