Students can benefit from having a "personalized home page" that gives them access to key information from across the web. iGoogle is one way of allowing students to create their own "virtual locker". Personalized gadgets can be added to this self-designed page, including news, local weather, a personal calendar, to-do lists, encyclopedias,and many other time-saving tools that will help students organize and complete their school work. There are educational gadgets such as the SAT/ACT Word of the Day and powerful gadgets like Google Reader, which brings together information from many sources.
Activity #1 - Create an iGoogle page to be used as your homepage.
Activity #1 - Create an iGoogle page to be used as your homepage.
Choose a theme. Add and arrange gadgets as directed.
Begin with the following:
- Google News
- GMail
- Daily Literary Quote
- USA Today News
- Optical Illusion of the Day
- Google Map Search
- Wikipedia Search
- Dictionary
- Online English Grammar
- Calendar
- Livestrong Fitness Tip of the Day
Activity #2 - Add an RSS feed from your blog and from my blog.
Activity #3 - Add a post to your blog describing 3 of the gadgets you added to your iGoogle page and why you chose them. Include the # of current users for each gadget. Also add a link to your iGoogle page.
