Personalizing the Internet
There are many tools on the internet which allow an individual to mold the internet for their own use.
RSS feeds and aggregators allow a person to get the information they want pulled to one place. With these tools I can check new information on blogs, get updates from my favorite magazines and news sources, read event information in Detroit, etc. all in one location. I no longer have to visit each individual website or blog. Similarly, google alerts bring updates on selected search terms. iGoogle is a personal homepage which helps organize all of these things, and allows me to set up separate pages, add gadgets, a calendar, and more.
Typically, these resources are used to help an individual organize the internet in a way that helps him/her. The internet can also be personalized in this way for a class of students. Resources on studied topics could be collected in an aggregator, iGoogle pages could be created for each subject. The class could subscribe to other class blogs around the world. The possibilities, as usual with technology in schools, are endless.
