In your blog post for this Thing, address the following questions:
•Which start page did you choose? Why did that one appeal to you? Will you make it your permanent home page?
•How can the online calendars be useful to you?
•What about the to-do lists—helpful, too much work…?
•Did you find a tool that has some uses for you at the school or at home? Which tool(s) would you recommend to others?
For my iGoogle start page I chose a zebra theme. I chose this because I really like the zebra pattern, and I find it to be very sophisticated. I do not plan on making iGoogle my permanent home page because there are other pages (elearn.apsu.edu and facebook) that I use more regularly. I also use Google Chrome so I can access those Google pages quite quickly. I do, however, think that the tools Google provides are very useful. Internet is almost everywhere these days. Many people even have internet on their smart phones. This means it is even easier to use tools like the Google Calendar because you can publicly share and retrieve you calendar at almost anytime. Between school and my two jobs my life is crazy. I rely on my calendars and To-Do lists everyday for every thing. Internet To-Do lists are good because you can e-mail them to you or others, you can access them anywhere and people save paper by doing it online. The only thing is that many people want to be able to quickly add and cross off on their to-do list as things arise. I am more looking for an app on my I-Pod Touch so that I don't NEED internet and I can change things instantly if I need to.
One feature on Google that I find to be very useful is the mobile apps. These enable the user to recieve calendar reminders through text message, retrieve certain information, post on your blogger, and send SMS to your Google contacts. It helps an on-the-go teacher keep up with everything on one simple device.
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