I log onto several different computers throughout the day including the 4 I run at home. Most of the time I am visiting several of the same pages each time. Weather, News, CNN, various technological websites. Six e-mail accounts and other web services. I have for years, customized my web browser to open several pages/tabs upon the initial start. By using a home page, I am able to condense several pages into one simple page that I may access the majority of my daily inquires in one simple location. I enjoy subscribing to RSS feeds, podcast and blogs.
I have had access to a my yahoo page for several years but never took advantage of it. For this project I experimented with an IGOOLE page. I found the webpage very easy to negotiate and able to add gadgets for everything I need; weather, facebook, news, e-mail, horoscope etc. I found a theme that suited my taste, lego characters! In my class I would definitely utilize you tube video widgets and other tech news pages and updates.
In conclusion, keeping everything in a central location on one page will definitely save me some time during my busy schedule. I was also able to open igoogle on a few of my handheld devices, although all the gadgets are not accessible much of the information is still there.
See you all in Thing #5
Nice blog! I love the background you chose for your avatar! Are you skipping thing 3?
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see you getting so much out of this program - I,like you, have been doing the same thing with juggling all of my pages and am hoping to get MY homepage up and running this coming weekend...
ReplyDeleteJoan