Pageflakes

Daiimah Coleman Web Tool 2.0

Page Flakes

Name: Page Flakes

Website: []

__General Information__

Page Flakes is a social personalized home page where people can customize their pages and make them their own. Users can place all their favorite web pages when they create home pages on the page flakes website. Users can also participate in a blog or web sharing community called “pagecast” in order to connect with others all over the world. Users pagecast can be listed on various sites such as myspace, facebook, twitter, and youtube.

__Help Sources, Tutorials, Videos__

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__Challenges__

You must be 13 years of age or older to set up an account on page flakes

Page flakes does not monitor or can limit third party sources from accessing users information placed on website

__Educational Objectives and Curriculum Area__

Curriculum Area:

Technology and Design, Literacy, Research

Objectives:

Promotes teamwork and collaboration Express creativity Improves student-teacher relationships by allowing both to explore Web 2.0 Increases Drive to be independently creative Keeps students and teachers up to date with modern technology Fun learning experience Drives new interest levels around subjects that were viewed as “boring”

__Lesson Plan__

I will model to the students how to set up page flake accounts

Pair students up and let them complete the tutorials on page flakes

Students will then build themed pages based on characters from their favorite books that they read in school or on their spare time. This would also be a form of compiling digital stories.

__Student Reactions__

Page Flakes was a big hit among the students in my classroom. A lot of students created digital stories about the characters in the book titled Diary of A Whimpy Kid, which was a big, hit among the 5-7th graders in my school.