Thing 12

I chose to do a Google alert and use iGoogle to customize my homepage. For the Google alert it lets you type in anything you want and to the right it will actually show you the Google results so you can decide if that is what you want. You can customize it to alert you "once a day", "once a week", or "as it happens". You can also customize the result type to News, Blogs, Videos, Discussions, Books or Everything. It also lets you choose "only the best results" or "everything". I really like this because it sends updates straight to your email. When I clicked on the iGoogle, it gave me options for news updates that interested me right on my homepage such as sports, entertainment, news, music, and technology. It also gave me a choice of five designs for me page. After choosing the ones that I wanted my page had updates of all the things that I chose. Google alert will be helpful to me when I am a teacher because if there is an important issue going on that I need to stay updated on, Google alert does it for me. All I have to do is check my email.