Thing #12

I have become very familiar with Google Maps. It allows you to search and look at any place you can think of in a 3D image. I remember in high school me and a couple of friends were in the computer lab and we just went on Google Maps and tried to determine when they captured the image of our houses. Stuff we did back then was crazy I guess.

Since I have learned about Google Translate I really like it. I like the fact that it gives you so many translating options. I played around with it for awhile just entering things to translate in different languages. "Bu benim ilk blog denemesi olacak ve ben keyif aldık." I'll let you guys translate that now It's just in Turksih!

Post # 11

I knew Google offered a bunch of stuff, but did no understand it offered so much that I now recently came to know about. Google Blog Reader was easiest for me because it is just plain and simple like the other things Google has to offer.

I still think Google has the best search tool. Im very familar with it since I have used Google with all my research and when I just surf the web. I really like Google. It's even my homepage when you get on the Internet.

I explored Technorati, but didn't find much interest with it, maybe because I'm just not as use or comfortable with it like I am with Google. It takes me time to get on the same page with something new being introduced to me. I'll try to start using these more often and I might have a different answer later.

I liked Topix because as soon as I clicked on it, it was already giving me newsfeed for my current zipcode. It was pretty cool, I just started putting in other zipcodes like Clarksville and Nashville and read there newsfeed. I really like Topix.

Thing #10

I really enjoyed exploring RSS. I have never even heard of this program before so it was fun to learn something new and be able to work with it. I like that it reminded me of twitter instead of following people, you follow blogs. It gives you the lastest updates and everything on the fisrt page. I like that it has everything your following right there which can come in handy in times.

I can use RSS for the readers that I subscribed to. Cooking blogs, dieting blogs, news blogs, and etc. Checking them on a daily basis will keep me informed with what I would call the lasted trend on all those blogs that I subscribed too.

Teachers can use RSS to subscribe to other teacher's blogs, or some other form of blog that could help them with a lesson or interaction.

Thing #9



I really enjoyed playing around with creating my own signs. It grabs people's attention and draws them in. I chose these two images to show because this is what I want my future to look like. Teaching a 2nd grade reading/language arts class. This tool would come in handy for handouts and news letters as well I'm so excited that I learned more websites that offered to make signs, loggos and etc.

Thing # 8

I went to Spell with Flickr which was fun an easy to navigate. The mashup kinda remind me back to the good ole scrapbooking days. The page gives you a spell bar and then type in the word you want it to mashup for you and then it gives you different mashups of your word. I put in Faith first because that has a great signifiance in my life, then looking through all the different mashups I wanted to make more of these. I deciced to make a mashup of my name.

Using a mashup for my classroom could be used for any kind of learning activity, it's fun an easy to understand and the kids would really enjoy playing around with it. I mean I had fun with mashup.

Thing # 7

Photo by: sammohr3

I used to have a Flickr account years ago back when I was a young teenager. So navigating through Flickr just refreshed my mindset with it. Pictures has always been something I love to look at. I chose this picture for more of a motivation mind set. Once this semester is over I will be on the beach enjoying and relaxing. Now that I have been refreshed with Flickr I do believe I will get back into sharing and tagging my photo's through Flickr. Another reason I enjoy using Flickr is because you can type any keyword in the search engine and have a whole bunch of pictures come up that you can explore through and share.

Thing # 6

I thought this was going to take me forever because I like to explore my options before I actually make a desion about something. Though the first one I clicked on was PowToon I was exploring this and really enjoyed this site. They have unlimited access to all there stuff. It's a free download and you get to have fun will working with animation. I watched one video and it had my focus the whole time, so I know with me wanting to work with little kids that this could come in handy in having my class pay attention to materail they need to learn.