Here’s a useful resource shared by Orli Yakuel this morning. It’s especially useful for learners who benefit from visual supports.
MyClusta offers a start page where you set visual icons for links to frequently visited websites. Once you’ve registered and set it up, you have a start page that you can log in to from any computer. A teacher or parent of early learners can create a custom start page for each child. This might also be a great option for learners with developmental delays.
The screenshot below shows what the MyClusta start page looks like with the first row filled in. There are four rows available, for a potential total of 24 websites.
December 18, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Paul,
For what it’s worth, I like Tizmos (http://www.tizmos.com/home) a lot better. Tons of students at our school are using it now. I think it takes better images, doesn’t appear to have a limit on the the number of pages you bookmark, and you can write comments to go along with them.
I posted about it here: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/11/19/tizmos-again/
I’d be interested in hearing your feedback on Tizmos in case I’m missing something, though.
Larry
December 20, 2008 at 8:43 am
Yeah Tizmos is ok, but the snapshot images of your websites dont look that great.. the cool thing with myclusta is u can pick a really good image to represent your sites and after youve done this for 10 or so of your sites then your myclusta startpage starts to look really cool!