The school librarian sent me a useful list of internet resources this past week.  One that caught my attention was www.pageflakes.com.  It’s a free service that lets me create a homepage for my web interests.  I then turned it into a “pagecast” that places it on the web.  I created one in just a few minutes and here is the link; http://www.pageflakes.com/Mr.Richmond . 

I always have websites bookmarked for daily news/current events at the start of class and for projects.  Pageflakes organizes this content for me (and includes a feed to local news stories).  I am continuously able to add and delete content to my “pagecast” as well.

Pageflakes.com is new to me so I will be spending time learning all of its applications.  I do know that it will provide resources for my students that I can compile….keeping them from always using “google” and “wikipedia”.  This is definitely a service worth looking into!  More about pageflakes can be found below.  (from their site http://company.pageflakes.com/aboutus )

Be sure to check out the “idea of the week” and “website of the week” at www.energizetheclassroom.com

-Paul Richmond

  E.T.C.

Pageflakes, the social personalized homepage, is revolutionizing how we how we start with and use the Internet. At www.Pageflakes.com, you can easily customize the Internet and make it yours using ‘”Flakes” – small, movable versions of all of your web favorites that you can arrange on your personal homepage. You can also participate in the Pageflakes community, sharing your page as a “Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe. Over 235,000 Flakes and 140,000 Pagecasts are available for thousands of uses and interests, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos, music, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the web at school, work and at home. The Pageflakes user community creates and helps each other discover more new Flakes and Pagecasts every day.

Pageflakes has thousands of Flakes (widgets or modules) including Facebook, a universal News Search, YouTube, Twitter, message board, blog, and hundreds of RSS feeds to choose from. Design and create a page that you can have for yourself or share with anyone you choose.

Pageflakes was founded in Germany in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Pageflakes Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LiveUniverse.