Pageflakes - RSS Feeds

Through the Middle School Science Teacher group I belong to, I found out about PageFlakes, a FREE website for RSS or XML feeds. You can customize your Pageflakes to whatever topics you are interested in.

I added the RSS or XML feeds from my favorite science news sites so we can keep up with current events and I can use them as examples in class discussions. Instead of going to each separate news site, I can quickly see all the latest news headlines from all my favorite sites in one spot!

Lets say you are doing a weather unit, you can have the weather for selected US cities or foreign countries all on one page.

If you are doing a space unit, you can have feeds for phases of the moon, constellations visible that night, or other astronomy/space information.

You can list podcasts that you want your students to listen to. On my site, I have a link to a great news feature called 60-second science podcasts from Scientific American.

Most websites have an RSS or XML feed. When you click on either one, it will give you a web address that you can copy and paste into your Pageflakes page.

If you already use Pageflakes, how do you use it in your classroom?