Thing Twelve!

23 cosas, cosa Doce!
http://translate.google.com/#auto/es/23%20Things%2C%20Thing%20Twelve!
 This is my link to my Google Translation. It means 23 Things, Thing Twelve! 


I also made a Google Alert. 
http://www.google.com/alerts/manage
This is my link to my Google Alerts that I chose.


My experience with these two tools were fairly easy. I really enjoyed learning about them and the positive things they bring about. I made a Google translation and some Google alerts. I think these tools can definitely be used in education in several different ways. The Google translator can be used to teach students Spanish words. You could do a word of the day and show them how that word means the same thing in different languages and how it looks written in different languages. You could even show them so they can do it on their own. The Google Alerts would also be a helpful tool in the classroom, too. You could keep track of anything to do with education. I could  keep up with things taking place in the world.

Thing Eleven!

The method of finding feeds that was easiest to use for me was the Google Blog Search. I found that it was the easiest and most helpful. I prefer using Google in other things too. I did not like the other blog searchers much at all. I think the topix.net was the hardest for me to use. I also thought it was the most confusing. I found a few useful feeds in my searches. Some of them being about The 23 Things and Learning 2.0 blogs and conferences. One of the unusual feeds that I found from my search was One Breath Away « Adult Books 4 Teens - School Library Journal. Other tools or ways I found to locate newsfeeds was on http://technorati.com.

Thing Ten!

I never have really thought about what a RSS feed was. I would always bookmark my websites or put them in my favorites. However, now that I know what they are I have discovered what a useful tool they can be. I discovered a few pages that interest me. The pages that I chose to put into my RSS are Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, Free Technology for Teachers, Recipe Girl,  Elementary Teacher Blog, and Teaching Blog Addict. The things I like about RSS and newsreaders would probably be that everything is all in one place. I do not have to go to many different websites to read what I want to. I can just simply go to this Google Reader and everything I am interested in and subscribed to will be right there in one place. How simple is that! I also like that it is also connected to my gmail account that I use for my blog. It makes everything easy for me, and I am all for things being easy! I think I would be able to use this technology in my classroom by subscribing to educational tools I can pull up in class for a lesson. I can refer back to resources, and they will all be located in the same place. This will be a useful tool because it will save me a lot of time going back and forth to different websites. I could also use this for my personal life by subscribing to things that interest me. I can go to one website and have everything from several websites in one spot. I believe teachers can take advantage of RSS by incorporating different lessons with examples from a website that the class can read regularly and are subscribed to. I think it will be a useful tool because it will save the teacher a lot of time. I also think that teachers could take advantage of this new technology for lesson planning.

Thing Nine!

http://www.imagechef.com/

 

http://www.happyfacegenerator.com/

Here a couple of the generators I chose to do. I really liked the image chef generator. I chose to do the grass with the flowers because I thought it was really cute. All I had to do was type in what I wanted the flowers to spell. It was really simple. I also chose the happy face generator. I got to chose what type of smiley I wanted on my blog. Then, I just typed in what I wanted it to say. I thought these were really neat, too. I think I could use these types of generators in the library, classroom, or personally in many ways. I think it is a neat tool to capture your attention. Therefore, I know it would capture a child's attention in the classroom. I believe these could be used in the library by posting them on the walls or letting students design their own. I could definitely use them in my personal life also. I could create them to use in PowerPoints, newsletters, and class calendars.

Thing Eight!

I think Flickr and Flickr mashups can be used in my future classroom and in my personal life in many different ways. I can use them in PowerPoint presentations, as visual aids, a learning exercise for  my students, and as way to make things interesting. I found that all these different types of mashups are very neat tools. I chose the "Spell with Flickr" tool. However, there are many more such as Mapr, mosaic maker, Splashr, and Clockr. My feelings about sharing photos online is probably similar to most others'. I feel that if it is of someone instead of something you should have their permission. I also think that if you put a picture up you deserve credit for it. Another thing is that it should be appropriate. I personally want my photos to be set as private so I can chose who can view my photos. 

Thing Seven!

I chose to do option 1 on the discovery exercise. While exploring Flickr I found many interesting images by searching different tags. However, I loved the images of the farm land. The image I liked the most was called heart.land [explore]. I love this photo because I was raised on a farm and I love the outdoors. I think the view of this image has a good perspective. The tags I typed in associated with this image are rural, farm, tractor, grass, farmscape, and heartland. This photo was taken by Michael Kistler from MdKiStLeR's photo stream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkistler/7939534188/

All rights reserved by MdKiStLeR

 

Thing Six!

(I found this app at http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/winners.html)

I chose the Web 2.0 award nominee, Remember the Milk.

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ This web page allows you to use their applications to set goals and manage your tasks from anywhere. There is a free version and a pro version that costs $25 a year. You can also access Remember the Milk from your mobile device!

Things I like about Remember the Milk are that you can manage your daily tasks and set goals from anywhere you want, including your phone. Iphones and androids have an app for this, too. You can manage these offline as well. You will never think you are forgetting something because you can have everything right there with you. You can also get reminders sent to your email and in a text message. I do not have any dislikes with this site/ application.

I think this app could absolutely be used in a classroom or library setting by the teacher. Everyone forgets things occasionally. However, with this app you do not have to worry about that. You can always go back to your list of things you need to do on your phone, iPad, or internet. I think this app would make a teacher or librarian's life much easier.