Harnessing Google

Harnessing Google to Accomplish Daily Tasks was a great workshop with Kirsten Mastel as the presenter. She showed us some of iGoogle products.

Personal home page http://www.google.com/ig. This is great way to personalize your home page and feature what is important to you. For you it may be news, weather, calendar, dictionary, or driving direction. Very user friendly to set up and maintain.

Custom Search Engineshttp://www.google.com/coop/cse/ x
Create your own search boxes and place your own URL’s 1st in the search.
When creating this search engine some preparations are needed:
Purpose
Subject matter
Contributors
Possible URL’s
Template
How to publicize it

Google Documents- Great place for your documents if work and travel or use other computers. Easily accessed, good for collaboration, can be done offline and automatically uploads.Has a revision history so you can see what you or others have done, dictionary, and word count. http://www.google.com/coop/cse/