Thing 13

Zoho Writer is ok, but unless you are into high technological applications you can just use your normal Word document to do your writings. Seems simple enough for the writing portion, but trying to export things, I'm not sure how those things work. You would need to really get into it to understand it. Didn't really know that those type of applications were available for use. http://writer.zoho.com/index.do

Thing 12

Getting Google Alerts would be nice to have to get information on certain items of interest. I started this account today to check on golf information. I also started the Picasa web albums. http://picasaweb.google.com/home. Don't have much any it yet, but I can see as I go through the days I might want to put certain pictures in there. I'm not sure I will have anyone that wants to share with me. The Google Alerts can help people with news, web pages, blog posts, videos, new posts, and a combination of all of these. The calendar could help someone keep on task on a daily basis. This could help a teacher keep things together and not forget important dates and times. Even students could use this effectively. I'm sure many teachers would like to use the alerts to help them keep track of new developments in their respective fields. I'm not so sure about the notebook option. Don't think I would use this for anything in my life.

Thing ll

I went a head and subscribed to Bloglines. This seemed one of the easiest to find blogs or just find out information about different things. I actually subscribed in the RSS THING. But, I could use the site as well as any. I couldn't get to Feedster for some reason. The easiest on the new ones was Syndica8.com, I could find what ever I wanted to on this site. I could find out about things in sports which I like doing and in education like 2.0. The Topix.net didn't work very well and the Google Blog seemed to take me all over the place. Couldn't really navigate that well. So Google Blog was the most confusing for me. If you are a showbiz or Hollywood junky, I guess that Technorati would be your site.

Thing 10

This was definately different. Too many sites to choose from. I did finally select five I thought would be of use to me at this time. Things like ESPN.com; National Geo news: Animals and nature; Coolcat teacher; Diigo. If you like to get updated daily on changes around the world or in some subject your interested in this is the way to go. Personally it could keep you up to date daily. You could also do this in the school system. Looking for updates on subjects, classroom information, and standards. Students could us this system as well to get updated on interesting things for kids. If the students was given a task to complete he/she might have this new information on a blog site they selected. Other than that, it's still very difficult for me to navigate in these sites.

Thing 9

This site was a little difficult. The picture always would put a (pr) on the end no matter what I tried to to write. Still, if the kinks could be cleaned up the students would love it to make posters and different computer projects. My kids would have fun making things with this site.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61bPnh0eGQKo2Xgmqk7MGxoZog79VaKv8nRSViamsJGq08TGvdRxTw8JFsRs_H37JzxwbmKIFs40sgAxUrud6fHM3GKWL9VsEln4hCaLY9tcPesgUxwokGU-gAMp-b3T9SXTMeyIHd7II/s1600-h/samp0489c0a6caa20S

Thing 8

This would be a cool mashup for many military people, they could post pictures for every place they have travelled. Then they could send to friends and family. Very cool site. In the classroom the multicultural demographic could be used to show where students are from or where they have travelled. In geography, this site could assist many with great pictures.

http://www.mypicsmap.com/explore

Thing 7

Flickr has some neat pictures, but it was very hard for me to get images. Even though there were pictures all over the place about golf, I found a lot of pictures in and around my golf pictures that had nothing to do with golf. I'm trying to figure out why that is. I could see a lot of folks being able to access this site for many different pictorial ideas.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/525463526_d1d43a08d9_t.jpg