After looking at each of Google tools, choose two of them to explore further. Try setting up an alert, calendar, translate, picasa album or iGoogle page and using it. If sharing is an option for the tools you choose, make them public. Blog about your experience with both tools and include a link to your creation. Be sure and include possible educational uses.
I LOVE Google. There are so many cool things you can learn from Google, and use Google for. My favorite two tools from Google (other than search) is the translator and the calendar.
Google translator is awesome when your reading a text that is set in a foriegn country. I find it very fun to see how phrase look and sound in other languages. Below is a phrase that I looked up on Google Translate.
Spanish Yo quiero enseñar a tercer grado.
Latin Volo docere tertio gradu.
Irish Ba mhaith liom a mhúineadh tríú grád.
All three of these say I want to teach third grade.
The other Google tool that I enjoy is the calendar. There are so many options for your entries and I like that you can color code everything so it is easy to tell what each item is. I will definitely continue to use these two tools especially in the classroom. Translate will be familiar to my students because I want them to know how to look up a word they don't understand instead of skipping over them. The calendar can be used for the students to see what is coming up, or it can be used for me to keep up with my lessons and teacher duties.
**My calendar can be found here.**
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