Monday, October 1, 2012

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.