Monday, July 12, 2010

Thing 4

I completed thing four and created a home-page on igoogle. I chose this one because we are using goggle for our email addresses and I thought that it would keep things simple and easy. It was easy to set up the page, but I feel frustrated because I have been trying to organize the page the way I want it, but it keeps resetting itself somehow. I can see how this might be useful however. It gives you a place to put things you use frequently or want to check often. In terms of instruction, it could be useful in school so that if you wanted to use the fact of the day or art of the day it could be readily accessible for you or students to locate. You can organize/post RSS feeds (which I haven't done yet) that can help you keep up to date on selected topic. I chose the usual widgets of weather, news, mail, dictionary, WebMD, you-tube, and a to-do list. I would like to know if we can add our Microsoft Outlook accounts here (that would be convenient) and if we will be able to access all of this from school.

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  1. I use igoogle as my homepage from school and I'm able to get into everything. It is fairly easy to customize and create your own widgets -- I have all of my student blog feeds visible. I'm not sure about our outlook mail - but it should be feasible.

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