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iGoogle:  personalized home page with immediate access to your favorite resources

Ninth grade students in all social studies classes have set up iGoogle pages.  They can add:

Þ Teacher calendars (if RSS feed available)

Þ Resource widgets (search boxes to credible sources)

Þ Current Events

Þ Personalized themes and other gadgets

Þ Calendar

Þ Task/To-Do Widget

iGoogle is a great tool to organize and locate important information.  No longer are students interested in visiting a bunch of different websites to find one piece of information.  Students prefer technology customized to fit their needs.  iGoogle allows students to customize their needs and integrate teacher calendars, library resources, and other organizational tools.

To see a list of available widgets so far, click here for the libguide page.

Want to know how students can add your teacher calendar?

See Stacey’s Video:  How to set up your calendar so students can add to their iGoogle pages

How can students add the calendar?

Katie Bonnema

Katie Bonnema, Special Education, asked her senior  students if they planned on going to college next year.  Every student said yes.  She proactively organized a small research paper for her senior students focusing on skills that would be beneficial at the college level.  She worked with the librarians to create a research assignment that would be individualized for each student.  Not only did this prepare the students for the upcoming CAIV Senior Research Paper, but they are more prepared for the next level.

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