Thing 12

 I created the google alerts and the google translator.  If you look at my link for the google translator, I put my website that I get alerts from up in spanish which I just think is neat. I also got google alerts to send me alerts on the events that are taking place in Syria right know.  These two tools could be very helpful to a teacher.  The translator can be helpful becuase a teacher can show information to students in different languages if that was necessary.  With the google alerts, I like it and think it can be helpful to me becuase it constantly sends me alerts about different things and with me trying to be a history teacher, history is made every day and if I can get alerts on events taking place around the world, it gives me something to talk about with my students before the lesson or even during it if it ties in with the standard I'm trying to teach.

http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?mqm=c&q=problems+in+syria&x=AMJHsmXUw93VKx-9Rj7QP_eUKqhk1bLqzg:1330189054541

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=es&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26gl%3Dus%26q%3Dproblems%2Bin%2Bsyria%26lr%3Dlang_en

Thing 11

What I did on this one is, I went to edublog award winners link and found all the award winners off of there that I wanted to subscribe too.  The method I like best is just copying and pasting the URL of the sites into my site but the other way they show you works too but I just like my way better.  I dont see the toolbar they talk about on a lot of the blogs I want to subscibe too so that is why I prefer copying and pasting more.  There are a lot of blogs on the edublog site that are incredible.  They had a group of bloggers who won awards for inspirational blogs and that is the one I like best.  I also chose one about play based learning which might be more beneficial for someone who is teaching smaller kids and even parents.  They also have awards for best classroom, teacher, and student blogs which embarasses me a little because there are kids that come up with more interesting things to post than I do but it is also interesting and exciting to read and get feedback on what teachers blog about because it lets us see the problems and things they encounter so we can better prepare ourselves for what we might face in the future.

Thing 10

I really like Google reader mainly because I like having a site that sends me random facts and information about things such as history, that I'm really interested in.  As far as using this in my personal life, there are many things it does that could be helpful.  You can subscribe to many sites such as websites that have great recipes and sites like that so when you have to cook a meal you can surprise everybody and claim you did it all by yourself.  It is a fun tool for teachers because they could have new information coming in all the time just from subscribing.  Like I stated above with the facts that you can get about different things, in my case history, you can surprise your students with a fact of the day or this day in history kind of thing.  It is just really neat having all these resources they keep coming up with everyday to help you out as an educator.

Thing 9

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Candy+Hearts



This is definately a tool I have never heard of or seen before.  The main thing I can see teachers using this for is decorating thier classroom.  Teachers probably wouldn't decorate their rooms with the tools I used but they might and plus there are many different templates and I just found these to be cool.  I know in all the younger grades, you always see teachers put the alphabet and the vowels above thier whiteboards and this would be an ideal tool for that.  Also, It might look a little cheap and probably not the most professional but you could create yourself a name sign to put on your desk however, I would have one that looks more professional on my desk and just have this one hanging up behind my desk or something for fun.

Thing 8

Flickr can be a great tool for teachers in trying to make learning fun.  Teachers could use this to make unique images in thier presentations to show students what they are talking about.  It also might make the students pay attention better.  With the mosiacs you can make using different pictures could definatley make your presentation look more professional towards the kids and to other peers.  You could also make this a project for your students when trying to learn a little about them at the beginning of the semester.  It could help you see thier hobbies and interests which could allow you to relate to them better.

Thing 7

Overall, Flickr seemed like it could be a legitimate tool to teachers.  The site is easy to navigate and it is also easy to upload pictures and communicate with people on there.  I imagine like geography teachers or geologists posting pictures of the places they have traveled and letting all the geologists and geographers use those pictures to show thier classroom just what they have been trying to explain but haven't been able to show.  Besides the pictures though, it is still another social networking site so it could be beneficial to everybody.  After looking at many pictures on here, there are some people that have gotten real good shots of different things.  The picture I chose doesn't really relate to anything but it is an really neat shot taken from above a big city.  The phograher's name is Daniel Cheong and he really did a good job with this one.   http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielcheong/6299677556/