thing #18

It is important that educators know how social networking works because this 21 century is all about internet and people spending their time more and more on line. Children are using technology every day and learning so much from the internet. There are good and bad things going on around the school that the teacher must know about, at least around the city and school. I had a Facebook account before and I put pictures of my family to share with my friends and family until I found out that not only friends and family can see but so many others also. I deleted all my pictures and information from Facebook and did not use it no more. Here I am again now I have joined to the college of education. I do not think I can use Facebook in the classroom.
http://www.facebook.com/mark.wallas.39

Thing #17

The Delicious site came up because there are so many different sites out there. Someone decided to shortened the searching time and it does save time. When you can put all the tagged information labeled under a certain name it makes it easy to find and very helpful. I tagged the 4teachers, lesson plans, and classroom 2.0 sites that I liked most. I think it will help me in the future. The Delicious web page helps not only teachers but anybody to stay organized.

Thing #16

For my start page I chose iGoogle. This is because I am used to Google for looking up information or mapping for travel. It is my permanent home page. The on line calendar is useful for me when I fill it up with events for that week or month so it will remind me and help me to stay organized. Also the online calendar has alerts which lets the user know if their is bad weather coming. The to-do list is helpful for me because If and when I use a piece of  paper I lose it and never find it. I put my iGoogle page on my iPhone and every time when I look at it the to-do list is there that way I don't forget and stay on time with my plans. I use the Google translation almost every day. It is a very helpful tool for me. Also I use the metric converter because I watch the European news and it helps me to correlate the international standards to American standards, for example, Celsius to Fahrenheit or meters to feet. 
 

thing #15

https://karalina.wikispaces.com/space/content
 I created wikispace.com. Not much happening there but I am learning more.  

thing #14

I tried the "Bubble.us" and I liked it allot. It is so easy to use, and students can use it for projects as well. It is a good way to simplify any subject you are working on by simply dropping down by levels or putting it in hierarchy order. The "Gliffy" has nice diagrams, but it is not free. I saw this one before when house designers were using it for their Floor Plan. Now I know where to look if I need to.

thing #6

The http://www.go2web20.net/app/?a=grammarbase caught my attention first. I thought it would be good to have for my class when they are learning to spell the vocabularies. I installed the Google chrome and pasted my work. It checked   for Plagiarism, Contextual Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Style and Word Choice.  On results I had 1 issue on grammar and 2 issues on punctuation, my score was 57 of 100 which is showed “week”. When I wanted to look my issues it did not let me. The site has 7- day free trial but I did not sing up so I do not know the cost of the site. I can say that I liked the idea of grammarly.com but like I said it is not free.

thing #13

I created this quiz for 3rd grade math. I used Zoho Writer and found that it is not easy. It took me a very long time to save and copy. Then I could not find where I saved it. I like the Google Docs better because it was easy to find things which saved me time.

1. Linda has $0.88. Her sister has $0.41. How much money do they have altogether?

1. $0.49
2. $1.27
3. $1.29
4. $1.97

2. Octavio had $ 3.50. He bought an apple for $0.75. How much money did he have left?

1. $4.25
2. $2.75
3. $2.25
4. $2.15

3. How much of the rectangle is shaded?

1. 0.37
2. 0.73
3. 0.7
4. 0.710