Thing #4

Thing #4 is all about commenting on someone else's blog. Why should we do this? Well it is very important. This brings the writer and the reader must closer together. This shows you that you are not the only one with a certain idea. This will bring people closer together because it shows you that you have things in common. Also, you can share your ideas with someone else as well as learning a new idea from your fellow blogger.

I chose five people's blog from my class to comment on. I commented on Jessica Pickering's blog #7 because she had chosen a photo that included a quote that was so inspiring. I think everyone should go read it. Anyone can relate to it. The second person's I comments on was KaTreva Foster because she had done a mashup with words and I really like those. I also made one myself. The third person's I commented on from our class was Amelia Downs thing #10. I really liked the generator that she chose to make a picture. It fit her personality very well, and I liked how she could make it do that. The fourth one that I commented on was Emily Brennan's thing #9. I loved the quote that she chose to use, along with the type of image that she selected putting it in. The 5th one that I commented on was Kayla Moore's thing #3. Her ideas about using a blog in a classroom were great. Some of them I had thought of previously, but there were some that I would have never thought about.

I also commented on two people from out of my class because I thought reading someone's blog that I was not familiar with would be kind of fun. I commented on Ava Jayne's thing #3 and Sarah Hemisong's #3 because I really liked their ideas of using a blog in a classroom.

Thing #12

One of my favorites of the "google world" would be Google Translate. As a teacher you will run into many different languages that you may  not understand or know how to respond. So I played around with this and decided to see how I would say "Hi my name is Ms. Lindsey." and it told me exactly how I would say it. This would be so helpful if you wanted to teach your students how to say something in a different language or even to speak to a student who does not speak your dominate language, or a language that you speak.
Also, I really liked Google Alerts. It seems to be very helpful and keeps you up to date on things that you are interested in. You can set up to be alerted for things that could help you as a math teacher or any kind of teacher, but also you can be alerted to know about the lastest happenings in your favorite sport team, or the town that you are from, and so on.
Google is more than just a search engine. Google has everything that you need when exploring the internet.



Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/#en/es/Hi%20my%20name%20is%20Ms.%20Lindsey

Thing #11

I looked at a few of the websites that were listed under thing number 11. I really liked topix.net because it uses your current location and lets you know many different things going on around that area. Also, at this time election is going on so it kept me up to date on the standings of the people running. This would be very helpful to a teacher who was teaching about politics and such. The google blog search was very easy to use. When googling school library learning 2.0 it shows many different articles on 2.0 in libraries and such. Also, I found on there the 23 things by Dr. Wall and also another person. That was very interesting to me. When I visited technorati.com it was a little confusing to me. When I searched for different blogs it just seemed to be very broad. It was not as easy to look around and search in as Google Blog Search was for me.

Thing #10

I really enjoyed looking around google reader. It was easy for me to sign up for because I already had a gmail account. I subscribed to some math teacher posts. This will be helpful in a classroom because you can subcribe to different teacher posts and things for students. A teacher can subscribe to something and it can be a weekly thing to read with your students. You can subscribe to certain websites and makes it easy to access, instead of going to each website and having to find what you are exactly looking for. Google reader will help save a lot of time in the classroom.

Thing #9

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=23594439

There are many different things that could be used for your personal life or as a teacher. I really like the second photo that I created because you could make one for each student in your classroom to make them feel special and like they did a good job on a project or homework assignment. But there are so many more images you can create through this website. Like name tags and so on. This could be used so much in a classroom.

Thing #8.

http://www.familyartstudio.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product/FamilyArtStudio_Photo_Letter_Art_4DiD5kDs5W.jpg

I created this using Flickr. This is a great website to use to look up pictures, save pictures, and created things like this. It may not be so easy to use as a child, but this would be a fun way to create "cute" words to print off to help children learn their spelling words. Flickr has really impressed me with all that it includes.

Thing #7

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/5730746409/

After playing around with Flickr I found a picture of these two giraffes. The reason I chose this picture is because I absolutely love giraffes. But also I learned that with Flickr that you can set up your own account and upload and save pictures. This is a good place to keep your pictures safe and easy to access. But it is a good source to use to find pictures as well. This photo belongs to @doug88888

Thing #6

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13546_109-10237633-29.html?tag=mncol

There were many websites that I thought were very useful wesites but one that we all have is Facebook. Although Facebook is many times used as a social network between our friends. But it could also be used in a classroom. A teacher could make an individual profile for her classroom, so that, depending on the age of the students, the parents or teachers could become friends with that profile. The teacher could post up coming tests, homework, and updates for the classroom. This would be an easy way for teachers, students, and parents to keep in touch. And it's easy because almost everyone has a facebook now.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-13546_109-10237739-29.html?tag=mncol

Skype was another tool that I think is cool. I have used it before to chat face to face with friends and such. But a teacher could use this to have a chat with a parent of one of his or her students. This would be easy for a  mother/father/guardian that does not have time to come to a parent/teacher conference. This would give a face to face conversation with them. But also, you do not have to do a face to face conversation. The teacher and parent/guardian could chat.

Thing #5 Web 2.0

Web 2.0 means to use technology in the classrom to improve and help students learn a certain subject that is being taught. I chose two of the links that were givent to us to learn about Web 2.0. The two that I chose were A guide for educators and Web 2.0 is the future for education.
Everyday in our lives we use technology. If it is not a phone, it's a computer, if its not an ipad, its some other piece of technology. There is so much technology used in the everyday life. There are so many apps that can be downloaded on a droid, iPhone, iPad, and so on that can help a teacher teach his or her lesson.
I do think that Web 2.0 is the future for education. There is no reason that a teacher should not use technology to help them teach.