Thing #16

I had already set up an iGoogle page in another "thing," so I decided to explore Pageflakes for this "thing."  While I like iGoogle better than Pageflakes for mere cosmetic purposes, I liked how Pageflakes organized the material (or interests) I had chosen.  I like that the news is personalized for Clarksville and within seconds I had the weather updated and news stories displayed for my area.  While I enjoyed working with PageFlakes and would recommend it to others, I will stay with iGoogle as my personalized home page.

The online calendars are useful because I am on the computer more than I am in my purse (which is where I keep a hardcopy of a calendar).  I use my online calendar to keep my to do list organized, keep up with family/friends birthdays, and to keep all of my meetings straight.  I keep my to-do list with my calendar.  I think that having a separate tool to keep a to-do list is too much work and too many extra steps to take.  I'd have to post a reminder in my calendar to check my to-do list!  haha...

If I could get everyone on the same calendar, I like the feature of keep dates straight and adding reminders to a calendar that my students/parents can access on the web.

If you need a place to keep everything: a calendar, to-do list, text/images, etc. and all in a neat package, I recommend Scrybe.  This is really more like have a day planner (you know those big portfolio things that has a calendar, notes, reminders, to-do lists, etc all in one?).  If you are online often, Scrybe is a great alternative to those big, bulky, and expensive day planners.