Thing #16

I went with igoogle and I added widgets to the homegpage as described in a previous post. I created a to do list using Tada and added it to my igoogle page. I also explored mindomo and empressr. Mindomo is a better mind map then what I saw available in the previous posts. It allows for emoticons, emphasis, bold, italics, relationships, topics, subtopics, you can attach videos and pictures and it is FREE. I also looked at empressr. Empressr is a online presentation tool that is similar to powerpoint. It does have some functionality that power point does not and allows for multiple users to work at once. You can also import jpeg to work on. Powerpoints be imported edited and then exported as jpeg. Unfortunately the website does NOT work for .pptx which is the version of powerpoint that is installed on our macbooks.

Google appealed to me because of the options and ease of incorporation of widgets. Also the majority of tools that I use our google based so it makes it easy to use. An online calendar is useful because it is not tied directly to one desktop I can add and edit at home and then be reminded at school or vice-versa. I am more likely to use the online to do list because I usually have 3-4 lists that I lose during the course of the week so having an online list is a definite plus.

I would definitely recommend mindomo as a conceptual mapping tool.

I already use google docs, gmail, To do, and google reader all of which I recommend as well.