Thing 12

I love the calendar option on google! How neat. I didn't put any personal stuff on it, however, I put a little bit of stuff on it. My thursdays are crazy. I think I will definitely make my own calendars from now on to keep track of my dates and appoinments. View my calendar here. I also enjoyed iGoogle. It gives you weather, and a lot of examples of your interests. For example, I chose that I am interested in cooking, so on my iGoogle page I have a "Recipe of the Day" section. I also chose that I am interested in games. Therefore, I also have a games box on my iGoogle page. You can add gadgets to your iGoogle page as well. It's like having all of the things you frequently look at, all in one place. It's pretty awesome and I plan to use it more often.

Thing 11

I thought searching for feeds through the google search was easiest, however, I like searching for the feeds by just browsing because it gives me more of a wide variety of things to subscribe too. I thought the topix.net was a little harder to navigate through. I found a variety of useful feeds during my exploration. I found educational feeds related to middle school math, which I will be teaching. I subscribed to nctm.org.  On the other hand, I also found some good parenting feeds for good ideas for daily ideas for your children to learn while playing and feeds that keep you up to date on new parenting techniques. I just googled a subject area and then news feed to find a news feed that I was interested in.

Thing 10

I had a hard time finding out how to subscribe to different things at first. However, quickly I found that there is a subcribe search bar at the top left of the screen where you search for things. I subscribed to two different cites for math applications that can be used in the classroom, Pioneer woman :), Cool Cat Teacher, and a cite for women's health and beauty! I like RSS because I can put all of my favorite things to read in one place. This is a great way to organize resources to use in the classroom and stay up to date on new teaching strategies. Teachers could all subscribe to websites that correlate to the material they teach. Staying up to date on new teaching strategies, classroom management strategies, and strategies to modify your lessons towards different learning strategies can continually improve a teacher's efficacy.

Thing 9

I chose a magazine cover, an overlying effect and a border! I used two different photos. I took the first photo of some trees near my house. The second photo is a picture of my dog on a sunny day. This experience of manipulating pictures was much easier than just uploading one from flickr! I think these would be useful to take picutures of your students and put a crayon border around it as a class photo kept in class or to help them explore technology. For personal uses, I could use these different programs to help make my pictures look more creative! I scrap book as a hobby so this activity was very interesting for me!

I created these images at fototrix!