iGoogle as a Virtual Planner

I just came across a new feature in iGoogle that allows you to share tabs with others. This has the potential to be very useful if a school implemented iGoogle as a student start page or "virtual planner." Instead of trusting students to put useful gadgets on their start pages, you can give them each a uniform template which they can then customize.

I posted a screencast of how to create the template on my blog. If you're not familiar with iGoogle, I would recommend that you watch the video below. You might find something useful for yourself or your students!

Tags: Apps, Google, iGoogle, planner, virtual

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stange on February 1, 2010 at 6:47am

I agree iGoogle certainly has value. It is one of my personal organizers. An alternative in schools would be to make outlook accessible to students as it is to my colleagues.

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Permalink Reply by John Sowash on February 1, 2010 at 6:58am

Are you referring to Outlook Webmail? Do you outlook web is comparable to an iGoogle page? From my use of Outlook Webmail I don't recall a whole lot of customization options.