Bendin Blog

I had a little bit of trouble finding the template (you have to type “template” onto k12 learning 2.0) but when I did it was easy to load it up. I wasn’t able to edit the to-do list so I finally just deleted it. I liked browsing through the themes and page edits for different looks. There are a lot of cool features, almost too many to wade through. I grabbed a few and changed a few that were on the template. It was fun moving things around until I got it the way that I wanted it to be.

For students, I think that they would enjoy and find this tool useful. I teach 6th grade and many of them don’t belong to social networking sites yet (although this is changing) and this might be a way for them to have a way to personalize a page without belonging to a networking site. For the classroom, students could contribute to a class page themselves or just go to a teacher created page and review posted class information, see class assignments, use the calendar to see what is due when, or check out web sites/RSS feeds/podcasts that that the teacher thinks are important.

Professionally, I see our English department using this as a tool for contributing professional ideas to share with each others. It could be accessed by all of our department and folks could add things to share with the group. We could also use the calendar for upcoming meetings and dates of relevance to our department.

Even though it is a good tool, I must say that I probably won’t use it. Our school has a very good technology network and I think that a lot of what pageflakes can do, we are already doing. I’m thankful to have such a good tech program already in place.