I have set up Google alerts with search term "ESL Reading" and have it delivered to my gmail. I will see what I may receive and how relevant the emails are. I also created a personal search homepage with iGoogle but I haven't figured out how to share it. It seems I need my friends' gmail addresses.
I also followed the link to Google Notebook but found it is being phased out by Google as it says "Google recently stopped development on Notebook, which means it's no longer open to sign-ups by new users or being improved." I think it is replaced by a better tool - Google Docs.
I think all these tools are useful in an education setting. I will ask my students to try iGoogle and we may also use Google Docs for presentation, group discussions, and the built-in spreadsheet feature is awesome!
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