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!

Thing 8

I hope this one is easier than 7!

Phewwww! That was easy! I orginally tried some different ones and they didn't work. This one was rather easy. This is a picture of a home lit up like a ginger bread house. I took this picture while me and my boyfriend were driving around looking at Christmas lights one night. I think the puzzles would be very cool to have printed out in the classroom. In pieces, the students would never know that it was a picture of them, the classroom, a favorite class book, etc. This program is a really neat idea! I feel okay about sharing pictures online. However, I have to make sure they are not offensive to anyone before I upload them.

Thing 7

My flickr experience was a nightmare! I tried adding a picture to this post I bet one hundred times. I enjoyed looking through flickr. But, when it came to adding a picture I could not figure it out! Hopefully I can get some help on this and add the picture that I want. (I didn't get the one i wanted, but this one is cool too!) It is called HDR by an photographer on photobucket that goes by the name xoxomayra94. Click here to see the picture on photobucket.com!
I finally got this to work on photobucket. I couldn't get it to work with flickr. I kept getting an error message that blogger could not find my picture. 

Thing 6

I explored Dropbox! It is a website (dropbox) that allows you to store your personal things on the internet! It is great for storing pictures, term papers, or emails that you need to get to. Since Dropbox is a part of the internet you can access it from anywhere with internet (and who doesn't have internet these days?). Another cool feature/tool about Dropbox is that you can share your folders with other dropbox users. So if you have 72 new pictures of your baby you can send them all to Grandma Lou so she can decide which ones she would like to print! If you invite someone to join dropbox you get more free storage space. Also, when you invite someone to join they recieve free storage space! When first signing up for dropbox there are seven steps to complete and you will recieve 250 mb of free storage. Basically Dropbox helps you to share, file, and store your memories, papers, or reminders. It is an easily accessable feature to help keep your life organized.