Tour of My New Pageflakes! (UPDATE)

I found this great site that lets me set up my own webpage completely devoted to my research topic. Anything you wanted to know about children's programming or the effects of television on child development can be found on my Pageflakes!

ON THE RIGHT SIDE

If you need something specific check out my RSS Feeds. They allow you to take a link from certain pages on a website. This way I can go directly to the page on the site that relates to what I am looking for. You can find all of my RSS feeds on the right hand side. Some of them are articles and some of them are blogs. Each gives me and anyone else who explorers my page a window-sized view into a specific page that has the content that I want. The fact that I can click on it from my pageflakes and be right at that site is the best part of RSS feeds. If you want to start adding RSS feeds to your page, go to a website and find the little orange button in the URL box. Click on that and save it.

I also have a section that gives you a chance to view some other more academic resources that I found. Within the bibliography, I have also included an annotation that gives a bit of background and summary of what the particular book or article is about. I used Zotero and Citeline together to create a bibliography from all the works I had collected through my tireless hours of research. I would pay particular attention to my abstract for the book, Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent Behavior: The Recontact Study by Daniel R. Anderson, and also read my abstract from the journal entry entitled, TV distracts young children: study; Could be hazardous to their development by Shannon Proud. Both these and my other sources provide a more specific outlook on some of the effects television viewing can have on a young child. Anderson's book also holds multiple information on various studies he has gathered from other researchers and scientists.

I thought you might like having the option of reading something more academic than just my featured blogs through my RSS feeds.

ON THE LEFT SIDE

If you look to your left you will see my social bookmarking soulmate on my pageflakes as well as a snapshot of my Diigo account. Diigo is another awesome way to gather websites, bookmarks, and tags, but also network with other people interested in your field of study. Do you remember when I found Claire_drinkwater on Delicious.com? Well, she has a bunch of great bookmarks and tags that relate to children's television and even some that talk specifically about its effect on younger kids!

But that's not all. Instead of spending hours on Google search, my Pageflakes has a Universal Blog Search and a Universal News Search. I have entered certain key search terms like "Kid TV" and "Child television." This way I can log into my account and each box has something new updated in it that has to do with my search topic.

FUN FOR ALL AGES

Last but certainly not least, my comic strip widget gives my page just that added touch of character. I'm not gonna lie, I love how much freedom I had in making my very first pageflake! I could choose my own background, the fonts, colors, and size of my text, and where I wanted each flake to go.

I really enjoy it and I hope you will too!