Thing #12

I created a home page for my iGoogle account.  You can change the theme of your page to just about any picture you want to look at.  The weather, date and time, cnn.com, and your gmail account are already linked to your page.  My favorite part was adding the gadgets to my page.  I picked This Day in History and Quotes from quotes4all.net.  You can also add games, like bowling and Super Mario Brothers, virtual pets, dictionaries, and word of the day.  There are too many gadgets to pick from.  Students could each have their own page to keep up with current events.  Teachers could email assignments to their students.  Google Translate was the other Google tool I explored.  It would come in handy when trying to talk with students who speak little English.  I learned how to say My name is Shannon in French.  Mon nom est Shannon

http://translate.google.com/