Thing 12

I found the Google alerts very interesting. I set up alerts that will help my future English teaching experience. I think it is cool to know that even if I don't search for anything, Google will automatically send me alerts that will give me good options of knowledge for research. I also explored the Google translate cite. This cite may be helpful for my teaching if I'm reading a book that has foreign words in it. Overall this thing was very helpful and interesting.

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=EN
http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?mqm=c&q=english+teaching&x=AMJHsmUJQfNkR3_nPyyeqEcobsbM4OimVQ:1330036028765

Thing 9

Personally, I had a difficult time learning how to to this thing. I found each cite listed very confusing and not helpful. I'm sure there are a lot advantages for these in the classroom. a teacher could make cool images and designs that will heighten learning. However, I don't see myself using this technology at all; it just isn't something that I would incorporate in teaching.

http://www.text2logo.com/logos/absorbed_colorsplash.htm
http://www.medchecker.com/signs/fancy-fonts/list.asp

Thing 7

I had a great time playing with flickr for thing 7. I'm a huge Rocky and Rambo fan, so looking at the many pictures of each movie franchise was very interesting to me. I believe the photographer of this picture is soundtrackgeek.com. Also, this exercise showed me how to upload pictures better. And if i can learn how to do something on the computer, that is an achievement for me.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=rambo

Thing 11

I didn't really find any of these feeds the easiest to use. Basically, I just clicked on each one and typed in anything relevant to teaching. However, I would have to say that the Google Blog was the easiest for me just because i'm use to using Google. The most useful That i found was www.freetech4teachers.com/ because it showed lesson plans and how to make great ones.I really didn't find any other ways to find news feeds. Personally, I don't find this relevant, because I would rather learn from reading from a book. 

Thing 10

RSS and Newspapers are basically an organizing tool that are suppose to help keep things better updated for future teachers. However, I found this technology very frustrating. Personally, I'm not going to revolve my teaching around blogs and articles or even the computer. I did, however, subscribe to CNN, ESR, the Association of American Educators and Design Thinking for Educators just, because I liked what each had to offer. While this has its benefits of narrowing one's searches for teaching, I still don't find it very useful.

Thing 8

I had a extremely difficult time figuring out how to use flickr. Every time i tried uploading a photo, flickr would not accept it. I even I had log into my old facebook (which I told myself I would never do again) in order to try to get photos from there. Overall, This Thing was very frustrating; however, I was able to figure out how to use this thing to create cool words. So, I did learn something. Also, I would never put any of my photos on the internet again. I learned from facebook that doing that is nothing but trouble.