Google Docs Presentation

I think this function is useful especially for group presentation. We can make the document online and share it. In other words, every group member can edit the slides at anywhere and anytime they want. This saves our time. However, since the group members are not necessary to meet and talk when they edit, the presentation can lose the consensus. But, it is still very useful.

Another benefit of this function is that we can post the presentation on our blog page. I was amazed with this function in today's class. We will be able to explain more about what we post with our presentation.

Contents of our presentation will improve in other classes, and skills of using these functions will support us powerfully then.

Presentation Slideshow

Please enjoy it.

Firefox Portable Add-ons

I got some kinds of Add-ons and tried them. My recommendations are Web Mail Notifier and Personas. Web Mail Notifier gives information about how many new messages you received with a small mark of the right bottom on the Firefox window. So, you don't need to check your Email every time by yourself. Persona is an Add-on about appearance of your Firefox window. We can choose a favorite window frame from various kinds of designs produced by Personas.
I also tried some Add-ons for translating and searching words or languages. But, I could not find much good Add-ons. If anyone knows useful and quick translator or search tool, please teach me about that. I really want to use that function.

About entire Firefox Personal browser, I think it does not work so fast. I tried my Firefox Portable at the library and my home, the browser does not work fast in both situation.
I think the functions of Firefox is very useful. So I hope my portable browser work faster at everywhere.

iGoogle

I customized my iGoogle homepage, and I found the sweetest stuff!
That is Countdown to Christmas!!! I strongly recommend this gadget for you, it will take you a trip to wonderful Christmas time all the year around☆lol
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=noyesair.googlepages.com%2Fc2cv3.xml

Please check the homepage above and add the gadget if you like Christmas.
*Countdown to Christmas is only useful to free us from our stress.

Google Reader & Blog Search

I could not use the functions of Google Reader so well, I apologize guests of this blog about my shared items are confusing.
However, if you have time, please click ウエディング and Vienna Boy's Choir. Both these two links Austrian National Tourist Office's website. The former links Japanese homepage, and the latter links English homepage. Then, please compare the list of "(Home>Plan>)People & Tradition" , in Japanese "人と暮らし." You will find the contents in the lists are different. I think this difference can be an evidence of how information is selected and slanted (Birk1,2).
If you are interested in or writing about Culture Shock, I recommend you to click By:Amy. At the top of this homepage, an American woman who lives in Germany shows cultural shock in Germany. She explains details of her experiences, but this article is easy to read and interesting.

Lastly, I think Google Blog Search and the main function of Google Reader that telling us about new items of many blogs are useful for us. But, the function of sharing items is not so much useful. I do not know how to make folders in Shared Items, how to change item's names, and how to share the whole blog (not only items) by that function. If we can do these works by Google Reader, I really wont to know how to do that.