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iGoogle themes: make your homepage more beautiful!

February 13, 2008 While working on an article on using iGoogle with learners, I made a stunning discovery. (You know, I have no real life. And pretty things matter a lot to me.) 

Well, it is time to cheer, my friends! We are no longer limited to 6 themes and each of your tabs can now host a different theme.  iGoogle now offers pages and pages of themes to shop through.  And so, I was able to successfully delay serious writing yet again to explore the prettiest ways to decorate my demo class pages. 

One problem. I wish we could search these themes. Though you can resort the themes by newness and popularity, you'd think that a search tool would offer a search tool.

Nevertheless, here are a few examples of my newly decorated tabs for my homepage, for science, for global studies, for Spanish, for games, for library stuff, and for puzzles and games. I like this and I think the kids will like it too.  And I think it will encourage them even more to organize their information spaces.









Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on February 13, 2008 | Comments (8)


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February 13, 2008
In response to: iGoogle themes: make your homepage more beautiful!
Alice Barr commented:

This is a great way to help students organize their research and school work. I hadn't thought about using iGoogle this way, Thanks for sharing. Interestingly, I was not able to locate the library book template that you show, I went through all the templates to no avail. Did you make it?




February 13, 2008
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joycevalenza commented:

Oh my, Alice! It seems to have disappeared. I'll keep you posted.
joyce




February 14, 2008
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Laura commented:

I had no idea! thanks for letting me know!!




March 21, 2008
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Carrie commented:

I also loved the book theme and after showing the options to a friend, can no longer find it. Do you know what the name of the theme is?




August 2, 2008
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gieanne louise abara commented:

hi




August 9, 2008
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vanessa commented:

this is very kewl but i would like to now how to make your igoogle your homepage ??
thanks and bye :)




January 2, 2009
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apoorva singh commented:

its great now we can have our homepages beautiful but i want to know how?




February 15, 2009
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Don Dixon commented:

I noticed your blog and that you are interested in iGoogle themes. I'm a very active theme designer for iGoogle, and just launced my own website (www.igooglethemes.net) to host my themes. iGoogle is sometimes a bit slow in posting and my website has the very best themes I've done and some variations of previous themes. Theme types include landscapes, sunrises and sunsets, golf, astronomy, patriotic, artistic, armed forces, and novelty. I invite you visit my site.





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