Thing 17

This is such a great idea for everyone to use! My worst nightmare is to go through Googles results and see all of the random, not needed answers it gives me. This will be a great way for me to cut the time in half to do research for my classroom. Looking through tons of websites that only have the same word in common that you typed in the search bar is a pain. Now, with this device I am able to quickly find a website that I will be able to use for whatever topic we are discussing that day.

Thing 16

For my Thing 16 I used Symbaloo because it looked like a great organizing tool. I am the type of person who likes sections for specific thing. Using Symbaloo is a great way to have all of your objectives in a row. Having all of the social networking sites in a corner that you can click on if you are in a hurry. The weather and google search engine to check what is going on in the world. Or a shopping corner where you can go to if you just feel like you just need a break from everything.

http://www.symbaloo.com

I actually like online calendars. I like writing down what I have to do the next day so I can see it, but I also like to be able to check what I have going on anywhere I go. I like how online calendars can give you a message if something is coming up on your mobile device. An online calendar will be useful to me for a on the go teacher!

Thing 15

I have found out that Wikispaces is such an interesting and useful website. Being able to give students the opportunity to go online to your class website and see what is going on in the classroom is a great idea. This would be a great place to put ideas up that you have or homework so the student s can grab and go! Keeping the child on top of things, along with there parents is a great way to use this!

https://sammieebright.wikispaces.com

Thing 14

I love flowcharts! I think they are such a great tool for learning! I used them throughout school, whether listening to a teacher use them or using them myself in a presentation. I am able to use this in my classroom because I can show the difference between different types of nouns or adverbs. This would make it easier for the children to understand the difference between each of the words.

When using Mind Maps I chose to use Bubbl.us because I have never heard of the before. At first I had a little trouble understanding the website and getting the hang of it but after fooling around it started to come into place. A great way to use Mind Maps besides just showing the differences between something is, using it for student data. Having a students name as the topic and creating little bubbles below it to remind you if the student is understanding the topic or if they are struggling.

Thing 13

I have never had the pleasure of using Google Drive before. Let's face it, I never even knew it was there in Google. I thought before I opened it, it might just be something that I might use for a storage device. But as I continue to look through the Drive I notice it is much more than that! Google Drive reminds me of Word, Presentation, Spreadsheet creator all in one, but the bright side is you are not spending money at all to use it. I clicked the "create" button and chose to create a drawing for my Google Drive. All I did was create a picture where a student must write a story about what is happening in the picture. Using this tool you are able to have them create their own and tell about it, and give a good, creative story about the picture they created.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1YdMFvPOWilEC80gxL1bRDFSAAZSU8O4IBmUxUF-Wt_Y/edit?usp=sharing

Thing 8

Flickr is such an incredible tool for school, and now the spell application makes Flickr even more fun! I believe students would enjoy using this tool for their projects that they have to do in the classroom. Possibly using the word tool for presentations or any work type of work required online. I enjoyed creating my name with this tool so I know students will gladly want to play around with this cool tool!

Thing 12

Google is my homepage on my computer at home, so obviously I must use this search engine a lot! Having to dig deeper into Google than ever before I found new things that I probably never would of noticed if it wasn't for this blog. I looked into Google translator. In school I only ever took Spanish in middle school and German in high school. Just typing your said word into Google and click translate can give you the correct way of spelling it and the definition in the required language. I really wish I would of  noticed this on Google when I was taking a foreign language in school. Along with this cool tool Google Alert goes along with that. Google will alert me of anything from the news to the weather around the world. Hopefully, the alert will go off for a snow day in the winter this year for us!

Thing 11

The easiest method for finding RSS feeds was going through tool on Feedly. All of the search methods were easy to me, but I am the type of person who needs to stay in one place and not needing many other tools to find out what I need. None of the other tools asked to use were confusing, if I had to I would use them all. The most useful feed to me that I found was Edutopia. While traveling, I found nothing odd or unusual.

Thing 10

I like that RSS has many options of what my news feed could contain. Ranging from news, cooking, teaching, and many more. A main object in the RSS that I like is being able to choose my news feed. If there is over 5 things or more on my news feed I would get overwhelmed. Being able to choose which feed I want to see is a life savor. This site is great for communication, and seeing when dates are busy or they are free. This is very educational for teachers because we can add different teaching sites to explore new ideas and different ways of teaching a topic. The RSS reminds me of a website called Pintrest. This is due t the fact of separating ideas in categories that could help people get ideas for what they want to do. Pintrest

Thing 9

I used the website Image Chef for this thing. The site was pretty easy to move around with. You could choose from multiple frames, different pictures, and wall paper that can make your pictures look very cool. These pictures can be turned into your work of art. You can create different text that allow you to make the picture you have chosen to really stand out! Creating my own picture for this assignment made me think of older social networking sites when we were able to really make it reflect our personalities.

Thing 7

I am very new to Flickr, I have never used it before but I have heard of the website. As I looked through the website, I noticed that all the pictures are absolutely fantastic! The picture I chose was swimmers swimming some sort of marathon in the ocean. I personally am not a big fan of water, since I was little I was always afraid of water. Water still intimidates me from time to time, but I enjoy pictures of the ocean because of how the light hits the water. When I was searching for my picture I wanted to choose a ocean picture, but from time to time I enjoyed changing my topic to see what Flickr had in store for me! After finding my picture I put it on my blog but went back to Flickr to just search different topics to see what kind of pictures the website has! 

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