Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
School House Rock Mother Necessity
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
iGoogle
Formerly known as the Google Personalized Homepage, this personal start page is also known as a web portal -similar to Pageflakes, Yahoo, MSN, and Netvibes. It made it's debut in 2005 and it's features at the time, included Google Gadgets with the capabilities to add web feeds (a data formt used for providing users with frequently updated content), with the distinguished orange and white web feed icon. iGoogle Gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API(application programming interface). With iGoogle, users can select distinctive themes for their Google homepages and Google also allows users to create a special gadget that does not require the use of the Gadgets API, and the gadgets created can be shared with family and friends; but the special gadgets have to be created using an online wizard which must be from the following: Framed Photos, Free Form, Google Gram, Daily Me, Countdown, Personal List, or the YouTube Channel. The name was changed to iGoogle in 2007, and is currently available in 43 languages, in localized versions of the Globe and in over 70 country domain names.
Visit the site at http://www.google.com/ig or fontbonne family and friends keep in touch with me at collinsk711@gmail.com you never know, your fontbonne email account, may not last forever-plus I would love to keep in touch.
Visit the site at http://www.google.com/ig or fontbonne family and friends keep in touch with me at collinsk711@gmail.com you never know, your fontbonne email account, may not last forever-plus I would love to keep in touch.
Netvibes
Want to do a little remixing on the web? Then try Netvibes. Netvibes is a personal web portal, a place that presents information from different sources in a cohesive manner. Web portal like Netvibes, offer other services such as email, news, stock prices, entertainmnet and other information and MSN, Yahoo, iGOogle, AOL, Live Pageflakes, Sthrt, and Wakooz are examples of web portals. You can personalize a page using existing themes or by creating a theme of your own. Visit http://www.netvibes.com to learn more.
Monday, June 22, 2009
My blog and My delicious
Netvibes.com was one of the sites that I selected from the CED580 delicious site. Other sites that I added to the list were: iGoogle -I really like google reader, ikeepbookmarks.com, Organizing Your Bookmarks and Favorites and a new project based learning tool called Notestar.
I find these new technological tools to be quite helpful and resourceful for educational sites.
Take a moment and visit me on delicious at: http://delicious.com/collinsk
I find these new technological tools to be quite helpful and resourceful for educational sites.
Take a moment and visit me on delicious at: http://delicious.com/collinsk
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