Thing # 12

My home email account is Gmail, so I am familiar with Google; however, I mainly use it as a search engine. It was interesting to explore the other Google tools. I played around with Picasa again. I took the district Picasa course, so I was familiar with it, but I really like Flickr so much better. I will be using Flickr for my photos. The notebook was good. I can see how it would be very useful in the classroom with research. Students would love the ease of use. It is so much easier than taking notes on those little note cards! I really like the calendar because it is so user friendly. I plan to use it to keep up with all of my school, church, and Scouting activities. If I were still a special education teacher, I would use it to keep up with my class activities and trips. What a great tool! But, my very favorite of all is the Google home page for the Web. Oh, my gosh, it was so much fun to go in there and add the parts that I wanted. Then I was able to customize each part. I really like it. I did have a little trouble figuring out how to link to my creations, but figured it out eventually. I looked some other class members blogs to see how theirs worked! Trouble shooting at its best...