Aside from that, I really liked page flakes. I am not big into a special home page, but this one was pretty neat. I set it up with sudoku and gossip and all sorts of widgets that will keep me from doing what I'm supposed to (like working on this blog which is due in just under 24 hours! ARGH!!!) Page flakes is really easy to set up, but not to edit. I liked that they really has some great news stories specific to Ft. Campbell (that didn't show up in our weekly paper, it was a surprise!) But I couldn't really edit the music selection. I liked that it automatically has NPR for the music, but I would rather listen to Fresh Air than their music. I never could get it to change, but it could be me. I had a recipe widget on there, but it wouldn't set to healthy only... the recipes were just randomly generated from an "epicurious" webpage. Which isn't very helpful for me- I like finding new recipes, but I am trying to be a more health conscious eater. I don't want to be eating my carrot sticks while looking at a home made brownie thumbnail!So I didn't think it had a whole lot of choice... certainly not compared to google. Which is weird because google came in third.
From an educational perspective...I think it would be neat if one could be set up where one widget is an assignment calendar, another some online resources that can aid the student in reinforcing or remediating concepts. Just sort of set up the entire home page as a way for students to be immediately clued-in about what is going on in class. This would be especially handy with portable labs... the moment each student turns on the lab top there's everything they need to know for class. It's especially helpful for easily-distracted or forgetful students.
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