Thing #17

Tags are an advantage for everyone who surf the net on a day to day basis!! The people who love to look at the same site everyday for updates, tags does a wonderful job of organizing and saving the URL. I never used Tags as a college student but I wish I would have had the introduction to it because it is very helpful. For my students in the near future, it would be helpful because they can save the URL and  have no trouble of getting to the sites. We all know that students love to wonder off on to different site but if the sites that we want them to be on are tagged then this wouldn't be a concern.

Thing #16

• Which start page did you choose? Why did that one appeal to you? Will you make it your permanent home page?

The page that I chose to use was Remember the Milk. I found this page interesting because it has a picture of a cow on the front and I love animals. I don't think I would make it my permanent homepage even though this is a very useful and helpful site for a college student, teacher, or whatever career one has chosen.

• How can the online calendars be useful to you?

Online calendars are helpful to me because it allows me to view my schedule at any point. Even if I don't have a computer in front of me I can use it on my smart phone.

• Did you find a tool that has some uses for you at the school or at home? Which tool(s) would you recommend to others?

I like the tabs that were for school. They were very useful. It lets you set it up where you can put your assignments in order of priority. I thought that this was very unique.

Thing #15

I really do not like the Wiki accesses. I guess since as a student in school we were always taught never to use Wikipedia because it is not valid. As a child and a teenager I never used it I always used true research. I didn't find the relevance of using a website as a reference when everyone is allowed to change it and add whatever they would like to it. If i was the person who created it I would want some type of ownership and have permission from others asked to use my page and change it.
My experience with using the tools in the thing seemed easy at first but it was very annoying because it wouldnt let me upload one of my blogs on the Front page. I signed in and followed all the directions, I also even uploaded my files that I wanted to appear on the front page. It never appeared. I personally would not let my students work with any wiki projects or use wiki at all dealing with my class. They are great tools but they are not helpful for everyone.

Thing #14

The tools that I chose to use is Gliffy for the flow chart and the MindMeister as a mindmap. I found the the Gliffy flow chart to website to be a bit familiar. I actually did a little research on it before in my 3040 class. I researched to see if this website could be a good tool for a student with Dyspraxia to use. Students with Dyspraxia have a hard time analyzing things and a flow chart would be a great tool for them I believe personally. They can start off with a key idea and find concepts around that and expand outward from it. However, I didn't find any relationship between Dyspraxia students and the gliffy flowchart website. There is a software that is quite similar to Gliffy that students with Dyspraxia do use and its called MindMapping Software. Actually its kinda similar to both of the tools I used but they are good tools to research if you have students with a disability related to Dyspraxia or Dyspraxia itself.

Thing 13

A document that I created in Google dive that I should have created years ago is my first resume. I feel so accomplished by making one. I sent it for review to my sister and my advisor and I had very few errors. I think everyone in life needs a resume, it makes talking about yourself much easier. I have also learned you get a job faster with a with a productive resume.
As a teacher I would assign my students to create a resume for themselves. I wouldn't expect everything to be perfect the first time. However it will allow them the oppurtunity to experience making one for the first time. I would assign it as a workshop project. This can be a great way to boost self esteem and great knowledge about themselves,as far as what they want to do in life and the steps they are going to take to get their.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IK3u9QHKAlUpJ9LsIFo3YuwsB_Svtv1ERAimyZZfAKE/edit

Thing #12

I think Google is the most useful tool ever created. I think I have learned more form Google than I did in class. It is so amazing. No one should ever go through life without experiencing Google. This site can be very addicting.
One tool that was really useful to me throughout high school and college was Google translate.
This tool I used mostly for my Spanish classes. This made my classes a breeze. Google translate was good for homework help and also to help study for a test. It may be also useful if you just want to learn words for other languages.
Another tool that I thought was amazing was Google Books. I really never liked reading books at all because I automatically assumed they were boring. However, Google Books give incite on the book and it became an interest to me. So every so often I find myself buying books that I have researched on Google Books and summarizing them.

Thing #11

*Which method of finding feeds did you find easiest to use?
Looking for RSS feeds was kind of tedious at first. The one that I found to be easiest to find feeds was the Google Blog Search engine. Also the Search engine provided in Feedly itself was very helpful.


*Which was more confusing?
I really did not find any of the Engines to be difficult.

*What kind of useful feeds did you find in your travels?
I found Belinda Pollard blog useful. In her blog she gave tips on what blogs are worth reading and which ones are not. She also gave some examples in her blog of which blogs you should read.
http://www.smallbluedog.com/4-useful-blogs-to-get-you-started-in-self-publishing.html


*Or what kind of unusual ones did you find?
Nothing was found unusual about my blogs at all.

*What other tools or ways did you find to locate newsfeeds?
Some other ways that I found useful in finding news feeds is through Yahoo. I really never paid to much attention to Yahoo. However they have useful information and tools that can be very helpfuls

Thing #10

RSS is a faster way to get to information rather than searching page to page to find certain information. This makes the news that I like more convenient. The information is listed all at once in my feedly. The top five that I have in my feedly are CNN, ESPN, VH1, Yahoo NFL News, and USA Today. I utilize these sites everyday to keep up with the parts and entertainment I'm interested in. Teachers can use these to integrate in classrooms by letting the students at the beginning of the day see what's going on in the world. Many kids today are not interested in news and do not watch it. I remember when i was in class they let us watch television for the first 20 minutes to see what was going on in the world and what was important to know for that day. So this would be a great tool for teachers to update the knowledge of their students to whatever information they wanted them to know.

Thing #9

http://www.spiffytext.com/

This task was very difficult because some of the websites were not cooperating right. However, it was a good task to help familiarize yourself with different websites. The photos I chose to use is a inspirational quote that I find helpful. Also I created a collage of me and some of my brothers.
This tool would be useful in class if explained properly. The students would be able to create funny pictures and different works to illustrate their ideas. This would be a creativity project in class just so the students can explore and see what's out there. Hopefully, they will have fun and be able to print their creations out and take it with them as a memorable thing.

http://www.imagechef.com/

Thing #8

This  website was kind of hard to figure out, but I got it. When I got the hang of it I couldn't stop creating pictures. The tool that I used to create my pictures was My Big Huge Lab. The pictures that I posted was a motivational post and a jigsaw of me and my mother. I would let the kids in my classroom use the My Big Huge app to create any kind of creation they wanted that was appropriate and they could share to the classroom. They would explain what they used and how it was created.

Using my pictures to share, I don't agree with. Their to personal for me to share. I don't think students in school should share pictures because I don't think its right.

Things #7

The Flickr website is an extraordinary website. I found it to be amazing because I like to look at different pictures, especially pictures dealing with animals. The picture that I chose to pick was a picture of elephants.

Credits to @doug88888

Doug's page I really liked because it was full of animals. It was difficult for me to pick one to post. Elephants has always been fascinating creatures to me. 

The tags help narrow an search option down so a person wouldn't have a wide variety of things that one is not interested in at that particular time.

Flickr can be used in school to help children learn about the website. Also to use these picture to help them with their projects are in class assignments.