We’ve had fairly good success here with Pageflakes. (I know Vicky A. used it with her classes as she mentioned, as did another of our business teachers.)

I also created a Pageflakes page for the vision committee that this blog is a part of and although it’s gone down maybe once, I haven’t had problems with it.

(One of our teachers did tell me that she was having difficulty with it from home. I believe she may have had to adjust her security settings in Internet Explorer to medium in order to allow the RSS feed or the cookies to work.)

But my experience has been that it’s usually available when I call up the pageflake we have created for our committee. It’s been so useful for our committee, because we have a common site with news feeds, blogs, podcasts, etc.

I learned about it at a workshop with Will Richardson and he was suggesting using in a situation where you have each student create a blog, because you could then “subscribe” to all their blogs and it would be an easy way to read through all the blogs students were creating.

I think using it for a library literacy class would be an excellent idea. I’m also a librarian and was thinking of teaching students to use it for some more advanced research projects they are doing. It’s very user friendly, once you understand how to pull the feeds in.

Let us know how it goes! Carolyn