Thing #17

Delicious is a great tool for teachers, allowing teachers to share the links they think other teachers would find helpful. I could see myself using this site to help find useful tools and sites to help me in my beginning teaching days. This tool can also be used to get sites that would be beneficial to the students for a project or assignment. To find really good sites for arts and crafts stuff, the possibilities are pretty much endless on what could be on this site. It looks like a great tool for teachers, especially ones who are just getting their footing in the teaching world.

Thing #16

The homepage I chose was Igoogle, because I'm always using Google anyway. I just chose to put on a humor section and a couple cooking sections. I don't think I will keep this as my main homepage because I'm haven't really used a homepage much. I'm not a fan of online calenders as i have a tendency to not update them or write things on them, I don't even use the calender on my phone. I can see how the online calender would be easy to use and quick and even save some paper, but I just like the tactile feel of paper. I fell in love with remember the milk, I use to do lists all the time and I'm a major procrastinator and need to have something to remind me to get work done and on time, not last minute. I would have to say that remember the milk might actually be the one tool that I would use for both my personal life as well as school and work, it looks like a great place for me to try to keep myself organized and on track with projects.

Thing #15

I use wikis all the time, for many different things. Mainly for the games I play like Minecraft and World of Warcraft. It would be easy to create a wiki for a classroom to put assignments on or lists of books that are going to be read in class. Terms could also be put on a wiki and even student work could be added to a wiki. It would be a wonderful back to school project for the kids to do, putting together a classroom wiki for their parents to look at.
For my part in adding to the sandbox I just added one of my blog posts and changed up the color and size and font a little. Not sure if my contribution to it will be useful, but at least I added a little bit to it. 

Thing #14

I have used flow charts since I was a kid. Honestly both the flow chart and the mind maps look the same to me. I used Gliffy and Mindmeister. I have to say that my favorite was Mindmeister, simply because I like the ability to move the little bubbles. The ease of using Mindmeister was my favorite part, its just so simple. Each of the sites would be perfect to have students use, as long as they have the ease factor for younger students.

Thing #13

Working with both Zoho and Google Docs was really easy and fun.  I made a very simple and not good at all drawing using Google Docs. After using the spread sheet in class I can see how a group of people or students can all work on the same document. It would be very simple to have an assignment using Google Docs, the students each have part of the document to work on. After using both of the sites I would have to say that they both are amazing. Zoho has an ease, it was almost like just using Excel, and Google was very easy to use. I would recommend using either of the sites, they are both great.

Thing #12

I have to say the ones I liked the most were Google Translate, although I noticed that not all the translations were 100% correct. It was still fun to play around and see what the translator came up with. As a teacher I can see how it would be easy for a both students and the teacher to use. Like I said the only drawback is the translations are not fully accurate so it might not be the way you want to do you homework. My second favorite was the Picasa Web Albums, which seemed relatively easy to use.  The upload speeds were really fast and the pictures came up instantly. I would prefer this tool over Flickr, it is so much simpler. I had fun looking and playing with both of these tools.

Thing #11

The easiest tool to use for me was the Google search one, just type in a few key words and hundreds pop up for you to look through. I'm not sure if I would classify the others as harder to use or more complicated, just not something that I would prefer to use. For this exercise I didn't look for anything in specific I just looked for things in general so I was not able to find anything that I could classify as "useful." These tools are really great for searching for blogs to help you with recipes or mommy ideas. It is just about finding the right blog for you and what you are interested in looking at.