【正文】 Calendars – Widget and applications modules Pageflakes Pageflakes ? Pageflakes is your personalized start page on the Inter. ? Your address book, local weather information, todolist, news, blogs and much more – all on one page that you can access from anywhere. ? You can also use Pageflakes to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds. ? Flake is our word for those little modules which you can see on the screen. Pagecasting with Pageflakes ? ―Pagecasting‖ means publishing your Pageflakes page for others to see. ? You can share your Pagecast with the world or with a private group. ? You can even let others edit and contribute to your Pagecast! Pagecasting ? Broadcast the URL address and invite others to collaborate to maintain dynamic page content ? Helpful hint: – You can shorten your Pagecast URL with the following applications: Grazr ? Grazr is a free and easy way to gather and anize information from all over the Web. ? Use our drag and drop editor to collect feeds and links to Web pages, and then share them with others on this site, or place them on your own pages with our free widget. Creating Widgets with Grazr Grazr ? Embedded Grazr feed reader Grazr Widget ? Reading feeds through embedded Grazr widgets Blogs Blogs ? Weblogs are easily updatable personal websites, often used as personal journals. ? The social aspect of weblogs can be seen in the ability for readers to ment on postings, to post links to other blogs and, through using pingback or trackback functions, to keep track of other blogs referencing their posts. – This enables bloggers to know who is referring to and building on what they say in their blogs. Blog Hosting ? Blogmeister – – (school code required) ? Edublogs – – ? Blogger – – ? 21 Classes – – (free service is limited) Podcasts Podcasts ? iPod + Broadcast = Podcast – Amateur radio – Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files over the Inter using RSS syndication formats for playback on mobile devices and personal puters. Podcasting Resources ? Audacity ? GCast ? Voicethread Audacity – Audio Editing Software ? Publishing Your Podcasts GCast VoiceThread ? A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make ments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. ? A VoiceThread allows an entire group39。s changes as they happen ? Mindomo ? A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, anization, problem solving, and decision making ? Mindomo maps allow users to: – Manage and retain information more efficiently – Communicate information more effectively – Enhance thinking and learning – Recognize trends, clusters, and other patterns in your information – Synthesize separate pieces of information into new knowledge Mindomo Learning Networks Affinity and Social Networks ? Personal works are shared contacts systems databases of contacts, and contacts of contacts. ? These are often geared to plain sociability (. Friendster) or for business contacts (Linkedin). ? Affinity systems allow people to register their membership of groups – such as old school friends or work colleagues. ? Profile matching systems require individuals to enter personal details which are either matched against the profiles of others or searchable by others. This is the typical mechanism for dating websites, but this approach can be mapped onto any need to find people of a particular profile. Social Networking in Plain English Affinity and Social Networks ? Ning ? LinkedIn Ning ? As part of Ning39。t already have one ? Go to ? Use the subject line: Ad Removal Request for K12 Education Site ? Put in your work ID at the beginning of the Describe your issue box, then just give a onesentence description of your work usage. ? Email if your work isn39