Teachor Mentoring

So far, my partner and I have not met with our teacher. However, she did email me yesterday explaining that she is excited to listen to our ideas and such on technology. She mentioned that she wanted my partner and I to talk to her high school students as well and help them out with anything they need. I am not really sure how I feel with this proposal, because I'm sure most students in high school know all about the current web 2.0 technologies such as facebook, twitter, podcasts, etc and I feel it may be a waste of time. But, if this is what she desires and if this is what her students actually need, then I have no problem sharing my knowlege. MJ had a great suggestion that I may use, which was to talk to the students about different research tools they can use. I have a few tools that may be helpful for them because just recently I actually had a workshop with a librarian who simplified it for me. So I can be some assistance in that area. I am excited to hear back from Ms. Linda Jackson, so Ginny and I can start "mentoring" :)

iGoogle

Because of my WRLD 203 class that I am taking at VCU, I've been introduced to "iGoogle". iGoogle is basically your personalized google page. You can put anything that you desire on this page including news, weather, photos, etc. You can gather information from anywhere across the web without ever having to leave your iGoogle page, if you design it to fit your needs. I feel that by viewing someone's iGoogle page, you can probably get a decent perspective of that person's interests/personality.

Currently on my iGoogle I have a "gadget" for; weather, blogger, the date and time,nytimes, tvguide.com, newsday.com long island, facebook, gmail, healthy eating tips, my recipes:dinner tonight, sports scores, celebs by access hollywood, music, and filixer movies. With all of these gadgets I can do multiple things without ever leaving igoogle.

You can also tell what my main interests are. For example, you can tell that I am interested in Long Island News by the newsday gadget. This is where I am originally from, and where my family currently lives, so its convenient for me to be updated through iGoogle every time I use the internet. I like to be kept updated with sports scores from my NY teams, so the sports scores gadget is also convenient. The filixer movie gadget is one of my favorites because I am informed on the newest movies to hit theaters. Having facebook on iGoogle is awsome. I can log onto my facebook account through the iGoogle page, or just simply click the link to take me to the facebook homepage. The last gadget I will mention is the blogger gadget. I like this gadget because it allows me post on my blog directly from iGoogle. Not only is it easier for me to do it this way, but having it on my page is a constant reminder that I 'have' to blog for WRLD 203.

In close, I love that I have become introduced to iGoogle. It's extremely convenient for me to have my top web pages and interests all on the one page in front of me. Not only is it convenient, but its also very informative and keeps you up to date with whats going on in our world.