Introduction
Before I started this adventure in this new Web 2.0 technology, when I saw the word aggregating page I had no idea what this technology was. Even the examples I was still kind of trying to figure out the educational benefits of it. However, as my adventure continued this week figuring out how to use this in the classroom was pretty easy.
My Adventure
During this weeks adventure we were asked to create an aggregating page, like I mentioned above when I first was asked to do this I thought it was a very strange adventure. However, after I began to play around with the protopage I thought I love this organizational tool. See for me I am a very organized person and one of the problems that I have with pages like Twitter, is that it is hard to organizer your thoughts. I like to be able to find what I am searching for with easy. Protopage allows that because you can create different widgets to fit your page. Like if I wanted to set this page as my home page and see my twitter feed or instagram feeds, this would make it easy to divide up the different feeds by topic. Such as on my page the ETEC 527 twitter feed is on there. Then you could make a page just for twitter feeds for news, education, whatever you need. It is a very useful organizational tool.
As I was playing around with my page, I realized that as a portfolio tool for your students work this would be great. If you had been having your students upload videos to a class youtube channel or twitter page. It would be a great way for you to track what your students were doing. But deep down your students could use a protopage as a portfolio for a project. They could create a page for each topic that you want them to cover and put the class twitter hashtag as one feed. But ultimately each page could be a different aspect of the project. It would be there, you wouldn't have to have paper copies of everything and your students wouldn't have to worry about loosing things.
However, professionally as an educator this would be a great tool to network. Use your protopage as a way to show other educators what you are doing in the classroom or to just simple work together on a project. It would be a great way to show different aspects of your teaching style and what you are doing as a professional. Its a great advertising tool for teachers.
Conclusion
All in all, I could see me using this more than anything that we have learned about so far. I know that I do want to keep playing around and see what other things I can place on the page.
