Thing 12

As I have said before, I love Google. I have already had my iGoogle page set up for some time now. I discovered it on my about a year ago or so. It is personalized to my own specific preferences and general appearance. So far I have enjoyed putting on my own gadgets. I am always interested in the weather so that I can plan what I will wear for the day or what activities I will be able to do with my daughter outside. So, I have included the weather gadget for my area. I also have a calendar with the date and time. And if the page is opened all the way it gives me a calendar displaying the entire month. You tube is also a part of my iGoogle webpage. It allows me to search for different topics in my current education that I am struggling with. For example, I am in a linguistics class and we have had to make tree diagrams for sentences. At first this was difficult for me so I jumped onto my homepage, iGoogle, typed tree diagram into YouTube and got lessons on how to do tree diagrams. In addition, I have added a little pick me up by putting on a comedy central jokes.com gadget. It gives me three jokes of the day that cheer me up for a quick second. Also, I am informed on the world news, but I would like to be so I added CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and NPR: News, Music, Daily Quiz. They bring me the latest headlines in news and I do not have to go looking for it. Also, I have a gadget that allows me to quickly see what movies are playing at my local theatre and a gadget that displays the editor’s hot list for television shows that will come on that day. And last but not least I have included a gadget that gives me a little dose of celebrity news. There is always room for more gadgets. This is one of the reasons I love Google. It has so much coming directly to me so it is quick and easy.

iGoogle

In the near future I could add the ToDo gadget to my iGoogle page. I could post my to do lists about my upcoming events, activities, meetings, assignments, deadlines, etc. that I may have for my classroom and job as a teacher. This gadget allows me to highlight tasks in different colors, change their order on the list, and strikethrough or delete tasks. I find that this would be very useful in helping my organize my daily tasks in a place where I can go easily each day and see them every time I log on because it is my homepage.

ToDo Gadget

I have already mentioned Google translate in a previous posting, but I wanted to mention it again because I wanted to go into it further. First of all, I think that Google translate is useful but you should be cautious of your results. After all, it is still a machine and cannot take the place of a professional or native speaker of a language. On the other hand, I believe that it can be useful to comparing your understanding of your translation or to get you start on translating. When you use Google translate you have to use simple sentences.

Google Translate