BP2_iGoogle Screen Shots

I am really seeing the value of iGoogle! Rena pointed out in her first Wimba that it would be a good idea to create a tab in iGoogle for each course because it goes so fast that things get forgotten. I am definitely going to do that. During the break I hope I can get the previous courses done, so I'll have those tabs too. Below you'll find my screen shots of iGoogle!

My first iGoogle Home page from the first month.

My new iGoogle Home page.

iGoogle FSO tab

iGoogle AR/CBL tab

iGoogle ETC tab

BP1_GoogleReader

There are so many RSS feeds that I wanted to follow, but I have narrowed it down to 5. These are the best of my rss feed search.

RSS feed 1 - Mike Darga's Game Design Blog
http://mikedarga.blogspot.com/
Since I'm a high school game design Instructor I thought it would be great to keep up with at least one game design blog. I chose this one because I like some of the games he talked about and that he is working in the game design field right now. Also, there are links to real interesting articles that I can show my students in the Fall. For instance, “21 behaviors of Great Designers” which has a wealth of information for beginner designers to avoid pitfalls and not have to reinvent the wheel. The image to the left is a screenshot taken on 6-30-2010 of what's in this article on Mike Darga's Blog, http://mikedarga.blogspot.com/ Scroll down on this page and look to the right.

RSS feed 2 – Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/

Edutopia has 12 different blogs and I really only wanted to rss feed 5 of them, but there was no option to do that. So I subscribed to get the following 5 feeds: Education Innovation, Education Technology, News and Opinion, Project-Based Learning, and Student Engagement. If you want to see the whole list of blogs go to their site and view the dropdown navigation bar link for “Blogs.” I looked on the iNACOL site but they didn’t a feed to subscribe to, unfortunately.

RSS feed 3 – Gaming and Culture CNet feed
http://news.cnet.com/gaming-and-culture/?tag=mncol

All the current gaming news is here! If you wanted to talk with your gaming friends about the latest games coming out or the possible delay of the game you want, this is the feed to subscribe to. The image to the right is a screen capture of CNet's Gaming and Culture Blog taken on 6-30-2010, http://news.cnet.com/gaming-and-culture/?tag=mncol

RSS feed 4 – The Social
http://news.cnet.com/the-social/?tag=mncol

I think this one will prove to an interesting one! If you want to be on the cutting-edge of how social networking is shaping our world, then subscribe to this feed. In one of the feed articles Facebook announces the first-time-ever VP of Global Public Policy. She’ll be based in Washington DC, but start in July at the Palo Alto, CA office.

RSS feed 5 – The 404 Podcast
http://www.cnet.com/the-404-podcast/

The feed is rich with current information on social media, video games and tech gadgets. Got to love those gadgets!