Igoogle+and+Netvibes

=Igoogle and Netvibes: Summer Institute 2009=

Igoogle [|www.google.com]
Show and tell: Are you a google club member or not? Sign in at the gate.

RSS is your best friend, time saver, tutor, delivery person 1. Decorate first: themes 2. Content Widgets (What's a widget???) 3. Personalized widgets 4. Adding pages based on interests 5. Making igoogle your homepage 6. Having multiple pages

Of interest for techies: igoogle can be your reader as well

Practice adding something to our pages, not from the widget:

We like Seth Godin's book, //Tribes//, and discover he writes [|a cool blog], with short, but interesting insights. We want to see what he has to say more regularly.

I stumble on this while surfing [|Martha Stewart]s webpages. Cool. She'll send me a recipe for each day of the week. I can go home and spend two hours making it after teaching and grading papers when I get home!

Netvibes [|www.netvibes.com]
Netvibes and Pageflakes and their ilk. . . what's the point? 1. Private Homepages (not in googledom) Same rules apply: decoratation, content, widgets pages, homepages, multiple pages) 2. Public Pages (bonus feature) Classroom use: pros, cons 3. Reader (probably more visually appealing than google reader)

Same sorts of techniques apply from one to the other.

If you like netvibes, check out [|pageflakes example] This is Mr. McCann's pageflakes site. Lovely.