Showing posts with label Learning2.1; powerpoint; uploading images. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Getting organised with iGoogle


I finally worked out the easiest way of adding a screen shot of my iGoogle page to my blog - knew my coffee-fueled brain would eventually work it out (and yes it was simple). It would be so nice if 'cut & paste' would work but then again, having to think about what it is I'm trying to do as well as looking at the ways others have achieved the same result is also a worthwhile exercise.

So what did I do? I took a screen shot of my iGoogle page and pasted it into a powerpoint document. After I'd shrunk it to a respectable size I then right-clicked on the page/image and saved the picture into the MyPictures folder on my pc. From here I then uploaded the image from my pc into this blog post. Quite simple really but I guess having to come at it from a side angle can be a little disconcerting sometimes especially when I was unable to simply right-click on my iGoogle page and save it as an image initially. A little round-about but heh, it worked.

This second screen shot shows a few of the gadgets I've added reduced to show what I've managed to add to it. I'm a bit dubious now as to whether it actually will do everything I'd like it to do so I may just turn around and explore some of the other options out there.

Later I'm planning to add a Delicious gadget as well as one or two others. I'd like to be able to add straight web-links but I'm yet to work how to do that.

This has been a fun week - it's nice to do something that broadens the brain!!