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