thing #16--Getting Organized With Web 2.0 Tools

For my start page, I chose Reg Mombassa.  I chose it because it has a desert kind of look to it and there is a certain kind of serenity I feel when I see a desert landscape....not to mention that I thought all of the other designs were weird and not to my liking.

Online calendars are going to be useful to me because I am constantly on a computer so it is no big deal to do my calendar business online.  

I chose iGoogle because I am somewhat familiar with Google and am comfortable with it.  I added National Geographic-Picture of the Day......because sometimes there is a neat science-related picture I will want to share with my students or colleagues.  I added a to do list because I sometimes have too many things going on to keep track of....so this gives me a reminder every time I log on to the Web.  I added Live Weather because I LOVE weather activity...our atmosphere rocks........and sometimes I may actually NEED to know what the weather is doing as opposed to just being interested in it.  

I noticed that the more tools I added , the longer it took to load the page, so I stopped adding tools at that point.

I chose "remember the milk" for my to-do list. It was a lot of work for just wanting to jot things down.  To me, there were too many steps to create this to do list.