Google or Yahoo Home Pages

As mentioned in our staff meeting, all IDS staff members should set their Web browser's home page to a customized Google or Yahoo! home page with relevant RSS feeds. Here are some ideas for home page features:

• Google Docs and Spreadsheets feeds for IDS docs
  
• The IDS 'blog feed
• A del.icio.us tab with feeds of your recent sites and the sites of other developers in the unit.
• dictionary.com, babelfish, and wikipedia search widget
• Feeds from various instructional design, ed tech, Web design, and usability lists or Web sites.

Our Weekly Challenge showed off some great examples; talk to Jared, Rick, or Richard for help on setting up your Google or Yahoo home page with some of these useful widgets.

A new widget we plan to add in the coming weeks is a course task/course nitpick widget.

--Jared Stein