Page Flakes or Fish Food

Page Flakes reminds me of fish food for some unknown reason.

1. A 'flake' is a piece of fish food that you feed your pet goldfish. Just joking! A'flake' in page flakes is an application tool that you can add to your page to personalise it. Such things are video toolbar, news reports, blogging station, weather, email, music toolbar e.t.c. Although with the video toolbar you can't put your own videos on it.

2.A page cast is when you publish your page so others can get applications or information off them. They allow you to send them to others and add them to your own page.

3.We could use a pagecast to show our information to others in our class more easily. We could also get information from others who have page casted and that could also help to personalize our page.

Advantages of Pageflakes

-we are both able to log on and edit at the same time.

-It has a sort of blogging sticky note application tool that will help us type our information

-It's very straight forward and easy to figure out how to use

-There is many flakes that we can put onto our page

-Create other pages to organize the information

-The blogging flake automatically minimizes if there is a lot of information and the viewer can click on 'more' to expand the information

-It's free

-You can create the backround of your page and make it more personalised.

Disadvantages of Pageflakes

-We can only put the flakes in certain areas of the page. There is only a fixed position and that's in a column or a row

-If you wanted to upload a video you woul have to put it on a website and grab the URL