Looking for PageFlake ideas

[*anj*]

Hey everybody,
I am finally ready to put this excellent resource to use, but I'm thinking that I could do a lot more with it if I had ideas. Does anyone use one for planning life in general and school in particular?

I'm trollin' for ideas! :D
Thanks!

[nancypants]

You rang? :D

What do you want help with specifically?

Here (http://www.pageflakes.com/nancypants/20089945) is my sample one that I share with people... There is a lot you can do. I also keep lists that my kids are supposed to memorize either on sticky notes or on anything flakes.

[*anj*]

Nan,
That's perfect. Thanks so much!!
I'd give you a thumbs up thingy, but they won't let me give any more today! :(

[WagsWife]

http://www.pageflakes.com/WagsWife/

See what you think. I have a friend who has all kinds of education flakes, but that just tends to distract my daughter.

[*anj*]

Tammy,
I love it!!
How did you get the NYT for kids link and the others?
I haven't figured out how to do that?
Where did you get the cork background? I don't think I saw that.
Thanks a bunch!

Remind me to give you a thumbs up tomorrow when I'm allowed to again! :D

[nancypants]

Tammy,
I love it!!
How did you get the NYT for kids link and the others?
I haven't figured out how to do that?
Where did you get the cork background? I don't think I saw that.
Thanks a bunch!

Remind me to give you a thumbs up tomorrow when I'm allowed to again! :D

When you go to browse for flakes you can click "browse all flakes" and you will have a ton to go through. Not sure where she got the NYT for kids but it's probably in there somewhere or it's an RSS feed. You can do an RSS feed once you hit the flake also. It's at the bottom left of that window.

If you want to upload a different background you can do that through "create your own" in the "change theme" section. You can either find another background on the internet somewhere or use one of your own pictures. hth

[WagsWife]

Tammy,
I love it!!
How did you get the NYT for kids link and the others?
I haven't figured out how to do that?
Where did you get the cork background? I don't think I saw that.
Thanks a bunch!

Remind me to give you a thumbs up tomorrow when I'm allowed to again! :D

For the links, I just put in a bookmark flake. I think the one I used was the flake that comes up when you click on Browse Flakes-Tools I. After I inserted the flake, I just added in the websites I wanted her to read through the week for current events. Her favorite is the Channel 1 site. The cork background is one of the themes on there...just scroll down a bit and you will find it. We do not use that one. *I wanted to, but since I wanted her to use it, I let her pick the theme...lets just say our theme is quite a bit more obnoxious!

[astrid]

Nan, I love it. But do you use this in place of a lesson planning book, or in addition to it? Do your boys just log on and get their assignments on pageflakes? I'm going to have to check pageflakes out more fully.

Thanks for any more info!

P.S. How's Brucie-boy?

[*anj*]

Okay, I'm getting it now. I thought that Tammy got all of those great kid links from some secret spot on the pageflake site. So now I just have to paste in the urls and I'm all set.

You guys rock. Thanks!!

[nancypants]

Nan, I love it. But do you use this in place of a lesson planning book, or in addition to it? Do your boys just log on and get their assignments on pageflakes? I'm going to have to check pageflakes out more fully.

Thanks for any more info!

P.S. How's Brucie-boy?

Yup, this is all I use. You can also print it each week (either before or after crossing it all out as completed) from your menu/file bar at the top. I don't have to keep records though, so I don't (yet.) I usually pull both of their pages up in two different tabs so we just have to go back and forth between the two. Pageflakes is my homepage in Firefox though (for everything else I now use Camino but Pageflakes doesn't work in Camino yet) so he knows, if it is not up yet, just to click on Firefox and it will pull it up automatically for him. They both love crossing things off all by themselves.

Brucie is doing great! He loves Cooper now... kisses him, lets him sit on him practically... doesn't flinch even when the boys come running through the house with their light sabres. He just joins in the foray! LOL He had a bone this evening (managed to get it out of the gated area because one of the kids took the gate down) and did sort of do a low growl when one of the boys came too close for comfort but he stopped right away when I corrected him (and I took the bone away of course) but over all he is doing much much better. It is slower going getting him used to guests but he is even doing better with that. Baby steps with that though... he now warms up rather quickly if it's a small gathering (like a family of four coming over) but still doesn't handle the larger groups too well. He just stays in his kennel then though.

[Kelli in TN]

Do you do a separate page for each child? Or do all the children's assignments go on one pageflake page?

[nancypants]

Do you do a separate page for each child? Or do all the children's assignments go on one pageflake page?

Kelli, I do a separate page/tab for each child. It's simpler this way, they can make them look how *they* want them so it's fun to personalize them. It's no extra work really (once you get it set up)... it just makes sense to do each on a separate page. hth:)

[WTMindy]

what *is* a pageflake? I saw your examples and they look cool. Can you explain a bit more?

[nancypants]

Hey Mindy, if you just go to Pageflakes.com it will automatically get you started on setting one up. It's pretty easy to navigate. Once you sign up via the prompts, you simply click the snowflake in the upper right hand corner and start customizing your page. When you hit the snowflake the most popular flakes will automatically come up but you can click "browse all flakes" (or whatever it says) and have access to hundreds more, from newsy things, to do lists (which is the main "flake" I use for my homeschool planning pages), games, "sticky notes," podcasts, blog RSS feeds (the RSS feed flake button is at the bottom left of the "flake window" once you hit the snowflake.)

Basically it's a customizable homepage similar to iGoogle but I find it more intuitive than iGoogle.

HTH

[WTMindy]

That looks nifty!:)

[astrid]

Glad he's behavin' himself. Sounds like he's really fitting in well.
Thinking of you!