Thing #16

I liked the iGoogle start-up page. Most of what I use is in Google. It keeps things nice and tidy. You also do not have to remember a bunch of passwords. I have made it my permanent home page because it gives me the latest on what I need to know. I can also check up on thing happenings in my old hometown. I love this. I also have comics, Spanish Word of the Day, and the local movie times....oh by the way That's My Boy was hilarious. My husband and I went last night and laughed our way through the entire movie.

I got my Google Calendar all set up with this activity. It looks to be that next week and the following week are packed. I like an activity calendar with all my other Google pages so I don't overextend myself (ya right) and don't overbook.

I looked at the to-do lists and I still love Remember the Milk that I talked about in Thing #6. I will use this in my classroom to communicate with students and parents. I am really starting to familiarize myself with RTM and it seems to be user friendly for me and I will put an interactive "how-to" video on my class blog in order to help those not-so-tech-savvy parents. Jott has been taken down according to the link. They refer you to the AT&T voice to text as a partner option. I have used voice to text on my iPhone. I don't particularly like it because it does not always recognize my gibberish.

I liked the Zamzar file converter program. There is a charge to join, so I will not at this time. I think I would use it mostly for videos that I needed to convert in order to embed them into my PowerPoint presentations that I use in my classroom.