The first Google tool I tried was the Google Alert and I signed up for alerts on the Tennessee Titans and brain based learning but was unable to find a way to make my alerts public (you would have to sign in to my Google account) but I added a picture (above). I looked at the Picasa Web Albums but as I have just started with Flickr I did not see anything that Picasa Web offered compelling enough for me to switch or add this service. I already have a calendar set up (Microsoft Entourage) and didn’t want to go though the hassle of moving all my calendar information over to a new calendar system when I am happy with what I already have (and this is one area where I think Microsoft has Google beat. My initial impression based on a tour of Google Calendar was that Entourage is a more robust program offering more features). Nothing I saw about iGoogle excited me to use it so I was left with Google Translate which of all the Google web tools was the only one I saw with any educational value (I guess I could set up a classroom calendar to share online with students and parents). With the diversity in the classroom today I thought of several uses for the calendar in the classroom. If I had a student that spoke a language other than English, I could learn to greet the student each day in their own language and learn phrases like “please” and thank-you” to help the student feel more at ease. If a student was having trouble communicating I could have them type into the translator to help me understand what the student was trying to communicate.
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