Thing Sixteen

I chose the igoogle start page. This appealed to me because of the design. I want to teach third grade and the background look real fun to me. I will not be making this my permanent home page because I have a system that I already use at my house. I'm a little old fashioned and I have a magnetic notepad on my fridge that my husband and I can both write on. We also have cell phone that can set up reminders when needed. The online calendars would be real useful because it allows you to write as much information as you need and showing a little icon as a reminder. With a regular paper calendar, you only have a little box to work with. The to-do lists were helpful but I enjoy writing mine on paper and crossing out things as I purchase them. It seems to work better for me. These tools would be great in the classroom so that the teacher and students can eliminate clutter and stay organized. I would definitely recommend igoogle to others even though I will not use it.

Thing Fifteen

Wiki would be really popular in my family. Especially on my husbands side. I have my family (parents in Camden, Tennessee, brother in Maryland and other members in Germany) and my husband has his (parents in Adams, Tennessee, brother in Indian Mound, others in West Virginia). We all get together once a year for a family reunion. Wiki would be a great tool for all of us to use to decide who is bring what food to our reunion. It would also be great to plan meals for Christmas and Thanksgiving. I love making a list on things that I need but I usually end up losing them before I can buy my items. I believe that I will be using wiki next week for our Thanksgiving at moms!

Thing Fourteen

I chose bubbl.us to try as my mind map. I love it! This would be a great learning tool for children when they are working on assignments. It is easy to use and I enjoyed doing it. The other tool I chose was flowchart.com. I picked a family tree, which was an already made chart, that I believe students would enjoy doing. It is important to know your family history. For example, I know I am asked about my family's medical history every time I go to the doctor.

Thing Thirteen

Zoho Writer is not for me. It was hard for me to understand and locate buttons that I am use to on Microsoft programs. I was trying to save my file on Zoho and could not figure out how to same it on my jump drive. I somehow saved it somewhere and cannot find it. Google is the better of the two in my opinion. Something that I like about it is that the whole class can have one login and each student can have their own input on the page whether they are in class or not. This would be great to use for a group project. The link below is what I created on the google drawing. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1IWQQyX_Ag-rZY2d0pH_-5NqePV68-mXuEM3PkBHHH0Y/edit

Thing Twelve

After looking at each of Google tool, I choose Google Alerts and Google Calendar. I set up an alert for children's asthma because my daughter suffers from it and I would like to learn more about it. There may be a new discovery in the medical field that could help her with her attacks. I am going to try the Google Calendar to see if it will help me. I have a bad problem with forgetting things and I hope this will help me out. It says that I can link it with my phone and it will send me a message with a reminder for an event on any certain date that I set it up for. Both of these tools would be great for educational uses. The Calendar would be great for teachers to keep up with their everyday events in the class room and the Alerts would be great if the class is following a story. I am not familiar how to post a link to my calendar so I did a copy and paste. Hope it works! https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1

Thing Eleven

I really wish I had faster internet. There is so much that I can be doing to help start out my teaching career and I just don't want to have to wait for my internet to load up so I can do it. I found that google was the easiest search tool for me. I have used google for several years and it is something that I am comfortable with. The most confusing to me was the Topix.net. I don't know why but it said my location was Missouri and it had a lot of pop up screens coming on. I found some feeds that relate to teaching. I need all of the inspiration I can get so I thought that was helpful.

Thing Ten

What I like most about RSS and newsreaders is the fast access you can have to the news and blogs that are of interest. I believe that this technology could be used in the classroom or personal life daily. I am the type of person who watches the news everyday. If I cannot watch it while I'm in class, I can read about it on this technology. Teachers can use it to help with their lesson plans.