Thing #12

Google is...amazing. I always use Google for searching and on my old computer iGoogle was my homepage but I never played around with it. Now, iGoogle is definitely my homepage with my certain settings, like quotes, email, news about Clarksville, and recipe of the day (because I love to cook). Google calendar is great because I can keep up with events and birthdays. I have my calendar as private, because people don't need to know all of my events. Since my iGoogle had my email set to it I would prefer not to add a link to it, just in case. I think having a calendar for the classroom would be a great way to keep up with assignments and events in school.

Thing #11

Wow, I never knew that there were so many blogs and feeds that you could subscribe too. I found that searching through Google and Technorati were the easiest, Syndic8 was really confusing to me before I even began searching. Searching by topic seemed to be the best way to find what I was looking for. I found a really cool website for teachers to use for new free technology and lesson plans in the classroom. Searching through Google I found some strange sites about FanFiction, people writing their owns works based off books or movies. I realized that if a website has a blog feed that Firefox will show you that you can subscribe to it by the search bar. I thought that was really cool, and a quick way to add feeds that you come across.

Thing #10

I like that you can choose which feeds you want to subscribe to and read. There are so many options to pick from and it makes it so much fun to look through them and decide which ones you want to subscribe too. For my own personal life I love books and movies, so I can check reviews on new books and movies. As a teacher, educational blogs can help give ideas to new topics or projects in the classroom. This is really easy to use and so cool to be able to find all of this information without having to go to a lot of different sites.

Thing #9

I enjoyed playing around with the image generators. I love all the different background choices you have to choose from the create unique images. These are so cool for personal pictures and can also be used in the classroom as gifts for the kids to give to their parents.