Thing #12

Google! Google! iGoogle! I love Google as much as I love apple. I have used google calender, translate, and igoogle for about a year after my mom told me it would be easier way of merging all of my applications together. I have my calender aleart me when it is almost time for my classes to begin, when my hw is due, and  translate I use right now at work as we prepare for a new cheer season. The more people become informed about what google has to offer they will begin to love it as much as I do. It will allow teachers who are working on a project for work to be able to make changes to documents without being in the same place at the same time.My Calender

Thing #11

I knew there were a lot of blogs out there but I did not realize that there really are a bunch of blogs out there! The easiest way of finding a good blog to follow that interested me was through EduBlog it gave me a bunch of good blogs that should have interested me because of me want to be an educator. Google blog search gave me so many options about the keywords that we were instructed to look up that I felt overwhelemed looking at them. I saw many blogs that were created about Thing #11 from other 3040 students amongst other information.

I found a really cute blog through edublog that a  teacher started about the kids in her classroom. The blog is composed of picture of the kids doing projects in class, having fun on holidays, and even the children reading a book that the students wrote. I love this it brings the world in the classroom and allows the parents to know what is going on the classroom with out being there. Another way I found blogs were looking through blogs of people that followed the same blogs that I followed.

Thing #10.

Since  I have been this class I have begun reading a bunch of blogs and trying to keep up with them, because of this I love RSS and newsreaders. I do not have to go to the site everyday to keep up with the blogs all I have to do is log on to my google account and it is one stop shop for all the blogs I like to follow. If I ever start a blog for my classroom to be able to keep in touch with my students and their parents an RSS or newsreader would be very helpful for those parents who would keep up with my blog about my classroom. Using this new technology to its fullest potential and also keeping up with what other teachers are doing in their classrooms.

Thing #9

Well I thought I enjoyed thing #8 but I think Thing #9 just one my favorite thing so far. There is so much you can do with image generators to make something so simple as giving instructions fun, not just for you but for your students as well! If I had to pick my favorite image creater it would have to be the imagechef. The site offers so many different types of backgrounds to type in to that makes plan instructions fun! Any library, classroom, or even desk will come alive with this cool tool.

Thing #8

     

I loved doing this! I would rather use spell with Flickrmore than Flickr,spell with  Flickr was simpler to use then Flickr itself. I cold use spell with Flickr  in the classroom to grab students attention about different subjects. I could also use this in my personal and classroom life with my blogs to give it a little flair. Although I can not get the html to work in my blog. Since I could get my spell with Flickr to work, I choose to display my jigsaw picture.  I have no problems with displaying photos on the internet, I feel as if they are tastful and do not degrade anyone then the word should see how beautiful one is. The saying is true a single photo can speak a thousand words.

Thing #7

I am a huge fan of photography. Therefore, I love Flickr although I feel the website is very confusing and there are better imaging websites out there that is more user friendly then flickr. Once I finally figured what everything was in flickr I searched the tag abstract. The pictures I found under this tag were great and made me want to go outside and take pictures.

Here's a great picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3391882610/ check it out!

Thing #6

I dedcided to explore the website DropBox. I actually first used this website last year in my Math 1410 class with Dr. Fillingim. What I really like about this website is that you can download the "dropbox" to any computer and it does not matter if it is a MAC based program or Windows, which allows it to be very convient to the users of the website. One negative thing about the website is once you start using a lot of data you then have to begin paying for the dropbox. I could see myself using this in my classroom by allowing students to work on assignments in the classroom and then stoing it in the dropbox to be able to retrieve them once they get home. I could even use it for myself to drop documents in for me to work on at home .dropbox.com