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iGoogle
You and your students can collect useful content from across the web and see it all in one place on iGoogle. From current events provided by numerous news providers to local weather and your school's events calendar, you can select any number of customized items and place them on a page that's specific to all of your own personal interests.
Here are a few of the hundreds of features that are available for your homepage:
- A date and time clock
- Your class calendar, easily accessed by students
- Bookmarks for quick access to your recommended sites for students
- Headlines from a variety of trusted news sources
- Link to your class Blog with messages to students or families
- New! Access to searchable elections videos through Google's Elections Video Search.
If you can't find the "gadget" you want, you can even ask tech-savvy students to create one for you as a classroom assignment (you can find directions for creating gadgets here). You can also use information from gadgets like Quote of the Day or Google News as a trigger for a quick daily class discussion.
Your students, meanwhile, can get organized and stay that way by easily adding multiple gadgets to their personalized homepage that will help them with their studies and schoolwork. Suggested gadgets for students include calendars, to do lists, maps, blogs, weather, Gmail, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and news and elections videos from various accredited sources.
To use iGoogle, all you and your students need is an email account. You can register your current email account at Google Accounts or get a new Gmail account. Gmail is now available through your cell phone or through your school itself, via Google Apps for Your Domain.
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