Thing #12

http://www.google.com/alerts/manage

I liked using the Google alerts.  I have played softball since I was five years old.  I played fast pitch in high school and travel ball.  I even played up to six months pregnant, and I still play.  I like to follow fast pitch, because I miss it so much.  I now play slow pitch softball.  I made a Google Alert that follows fast pitch softball, and I really enjoyed reading the alert that was sent to me today.  I also plan on going back to it, and having recipe alerts sent to my email address.  I do not like to cook, but I would like to learn how to so I can make my fiance a happy man.

The other one that I explored was the Google Translate.  All I really have to say is, WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL? Haha.  Really, this could have been very useful in my high school Spanish class.  I probably played around with Google Translate for about 20 minutes, just typing in different phrases and seeing how it is said in many different languages.  I will probably play with it even more that I know about it.  I can use it in helping to teach my son different words in different languages.  In the classroom it can be useful for students to know about Google Translate incase there is a foreign student.  Classmates can use it to help the communicate with the foreign student, as well as me translating with the student.

Thing #11

I really like the Google search engine.  I typically use Google for just about anything that I do, so it's no wonder that I found this one to be the easy one for me.  When using it, I typed in Elementary Education.  There were many results for this option.  My favorite blog was Elementary Education News.  I am not very good at any of these web tools.  I have a very difficult time trying to locate, save, add, make a profile, or anything that we have been doing.  However, I think that I am managing as much as I can.  The one that I had the most trouble with was technorati.

Thing #10

I like RSS, “Really Simple Syndication,”because it is nice to have all of the websites that you follow or check daily in one place.  The things I followed are; Facebook for iPhone, Spell Checker, Cool Cat Teacher Blogs, Learning 2.0 APSU 23 Things, Free Technology for Teachers, and The Pioneer Woman.  I can use this in school to keep up with websites that I frequently use for my homework assignments, or just to give me information on things I need for school.  For my students when I begin to teach, can use it for the same reason.  Teachers can use RSS to follow other teachers blogs about teaching techniques.  I am not really about making profile pages public.  So I think that I will skip that one this time around.  Probably when I becomes a teacher, I will make one for the students to follow me, and use my web tools to their advantage.

Thing #9

Word Mosaic
I Love ___
Happy Face

I played with different image generators.  These three are some that I really liked.  Using image generators in the classroom would really make activities fun for the children to do.  The children would want to complete an activity if they can play around with it, and make it the way they want it to look.
In a powerpoint, the student can use a generator to create a picture that they really like and place that picture at the bottom of the pages.  The picture can deal with what they are presenting in the powerpoint.  I really like the image generators.  It can be used in a classroom for more than just the powerpoint.