I must say I LOOOOVVVVEEEEDDDDD this assignment. In the previous weeks I was at a bore do to me being familiar with the tools that were presented. This week was different. I never dealt with aggregating pages before let alone heard of them. Initially, I thought this week would be no different from the others, not because of the familiarity of the task but, because it was something new that I prejudged as being boring. Well I'm glad to say that I was wrong.
Aggregating pages opened a whole new world to me. So much can be done on this application that it is overwhelming (in a good way). What I loved most is that everything that you like to look at on the web is at your fingertips all at once with having to travel through so many sites to get caught up. You can have your feed from Facebook in one corner, a to-do list in the next corner, your YouTube subscriptions popping up in the center and so much more. So many times I find myself pulling up the internet checking Facebook, then Instagram, then Snapchat, then Pinterest, then going back to Facebook (thinking I missed an update within the last 5 minutes) and the cycle continues. So needless to say, I will be creating an aggregating page for my personal use :)
Let's get to the educational use... I think this application will be great in the classroom for those teachers who may not be technology savvy or may not know how to implement technology into their classrooms. This will be an excellent start. Although, Protopage was user-friendly I don't see my students being able to navigate as easily as I could. So I personally wouldn't use it in my classroom until I become a bit more familiar with the program and am able to answer any questions they may come up with.
I really hope the next few adventures are as fun as this one...
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