Thing 8 New Start Page

Yahoo!  This was the best Thing yet!  I really enjoyed being able to design things.  I chose to use Netvibe.  I found the application user friendly, in general. I struggled a bit with adding my Google calendar but after some playing around I got it to work.  There wasn't an RSS feed so I pasted the "embedded URL" in the Widget. (Just in case someone else is struggling.) I played around with some page designs and color schemes.  I only wish I could change fonts but I am font obsessed!

I have to admit I am a bit overwhelmed in the sense that I'm not sure how I feel about this compared to Google Reader.  It seems that it could almost replace Google Reader since you can import any RSS feed here instead.  Does anyone have a reason you would use Reader instead?  Am I missing something?

I think the students would have a BLAST doing this!  It would be most purposeful though in the US where they each have there own computer. 

I did choose to make it one of my start up tabs but not the ONLY one.  I still have the ASH faculty site, Moodle, and our Website Calendar as my other tabs. I felt I use them too often not  tohave them readily available.

I hope the rest of the Things are as fun as this one!  Check out my page below.