This post seeks to shed some light on the topics of Pageflakes, “pagecasts”, how they’re created, potential uses, and some of the issues to bear in mind when investigating their use.
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Background
Pageflakes is one of a growing number of websites that enables people to establish a personalised and customised space on the web. Unlike the websites of a number of years …

Here’s a quick idea that might prove useful for educators currently using – or thinking about using – blogs in classroom exercises.
One of the challenges of individual student blogs is the fact they’re independent of one another. So by themselves there’s no easy way to keep track of the activity from a single location.
I’ve seen instructors set up a blog to act as an index or portal, where each student blog is referenced with a link and description, or with each student’s blog contributions displayed as an RSS …