Sunday, March 3, 2013
Thing #12
Google Translate is a very helpful tool if you have a ELL student in your classroom. I have had to use Google translate many times in my job and it is very helpful. I created a Google Calendar for my schedule during the week days. This is a helpful tool for planning in your classroom or to connect your student to. You could make it a public document for all of the students parents to see. I have finally made up my mind that Google has everything I would EVER need! No wonder why "Google" was added to the dictionary as a verb!
Thing #11
My favorite search method was the Google Blog Search, this was also the easiest. I was able to say what I was interested in and blogs popped up. Then I picked some I found interesting. None of the search tools were difficult, I was able to figure all of them out. Topix was not my favorite one though. While using Google Blog Search, I found different classroom blogs for technology, math worksheets, and decoration ideas. I also found personal ones for sewing and sewing patterns.The more I searched the Internet I realized that you can subscribe to almost everything. This is a very useful tool that I will start to use from now on.
Thing #10
I like RSS and newsreaders because all their updates are on my google page instead of me looking it up every time to search for updates. When I see that a new update has been made I can click on it from my RSS and read about it that quickly. Teachers can subscribe to pages that help them and give them ideas for their classroom. Also, the students can help pick different ones that they are interested in to subscribe to.
Thing #9
These two are my best friends and I would shout it to crowds of people.
My family always said I would have a personal license plate with this on it.
I have the sweetest fiance ever!
I played basketball in high school.
These generators are a fun way to get a point across. Maybe the first day of school you could have the students do something fun like this to get the class to know them, as I did above. Also, they could be used for personal posters or labels and maybe the students could incorporate the generators into projects.
Thing #8
Flickr Mashups can be very useful in the classroom. You can use it to make decorations and sayings for your classroom or your students can incorporate it into projects. In my personal life, I would love for something like this to be hanging on my wall. In both my own life and in my classroom I can have these created with encouraging and uplifting quotes. I love sharing photos online. I always make sure they are appropriate and modest but I believe it is a good source of social media and a lot of fun. I am guilty for sharing many photos. Flickr Mashups was a lot of fun to play around on.
Thing # 7
Meisje in schoenenfabriek / Girl in shoe factory
Nationaal Archief
This is a 15 year old girl in 1928 who is operating a buttonhole machine in the Dutch shoe factory Jan van Arendonk, The Netherlands,Tilburg. One of my favorite things to do is sew. I look up in awe to the ones older than me who lived lives as the young lady did in the picture above. I love to sew as a hobby and for some extra money but this was obviously her life and I could only imagine her craftsmanship. I thought this picture was absolutely beautiful. The role of women have really obviously changed.
Flickr was a little difficult for me to figure out. I wanted to find a photo that meant something to me and I could not even get off the home page. I finally figured out how to search photos that were not copyright protected, these are considered "Commons" photos.
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