On teaching this “old dog” a new trick ; I begin by creating my personalized homepage. I chose iGoogle because of all the wonderful things Google offers. Previously I had been using Yahoo as a homepage, I know you can customize it but I have never taken the time to do so. Once I created my new homepage I actually set it as my homepage, which was weird at first since I have been an avid yahoo user for so long. To be honest at first I found myself falling into old habits, I would barely glance at my homepage before I would navigate away to some other site but once I “got the hang of it” I have found that I like my new homepage that has all of my favs right there in one covenant place. It sure does cut down on time. So its here to stay!
As for the calendar and to-do list, I can see their appeal HOWEVER its not for me. I am old school, I keep an organizer/ agenda that I carry around with me and add as needed. Having them on the world wide web can allow for easy access from anywhere, which is great and as a teacher I could use one of these programs to keep my classes activities/important dates where the student or their parents could access it to keep the student on track. Which is great but it just seems like too much work for me right now, it’s a lot easier and convent to tote around my agenda and a pen so I guess you just can’t always teach an old dog new tricks :)
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