When I saw what Thing #7 was I got excited. I've been wanting to explore the Google tools for some time to find some things I could use but never seem to have any quality time to spend with then to get down and dirty with them.
Last summer after our district's Tech Camp I set up an igoogle page and used that some this last year. This year at Tech Camp Tammy Worcester came and showed us lots of neat stuff but what I found cool was that you could add tabs to your igoogle page.
So I added tabs to my igoogle page and a different theme and gadgets to each one. I have a cooking page with all kinds of recipe hints and recipes of the day. I have a news page with gadgets from all the news sources. I linked to Facebook and my emails so reading my email will take a lot less time now.
I also set up a google alert for me and my husband and have already recieved an alert on my husband. There are actually a couple of people with my husband's name somewhere in the states, a doctor and a lawyer, and the alert was for one of them.
Most of the other Google tools I have already been using. My daughter puts pictures of her kids on picasa and I get to see them that way. I did a lesson last year with Google Earth after learning about it at our Tech Camp.
I didn't care much for google scholar but maybe with more investigation it will grow on me. I love the advance search and will be using that more next year as it will make looking for certain files much easier, especially powerpoints.
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