I started with a Google Alert page for Clarksville, Tennessee. I am not able to watch the news everyday and most weeks I miss at least three days of news. It will be nice to have important news sent to my email account that I try to read once a day. At the moment, I can think of two examples to use Google Alerts in a pre-kindergarten classroom, the Olympics and Election Day. These are two topics that, in the past, the students have loved watching and keeping up with. I also set up an iGoogle page. I am not sure how much I would actually use this page, unless I set this as my homepage. It is a simple set up, which I like. There is a place to chat with friends, that may be used to talk with parents and the option to open a Gmail account, which could also be used in the same manner. Newsletters and important reminders could be sent to parents through either of these applications.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en iGoogle page
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&gl=us alerts
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