For my two tools, I chose igoogle and the google calendar. First of all, I love igoogle! It's really easy to set it to your own settings. It allows you to see you email, the weather, and even your social websites from this page. It has a section where you can connect it with your facebook. I don't really see a huge educational use for this in my classroom. Since I would be teaching 3rd grade mathematics, I suppose I could use it for the search engine, but overall I do not see a huge significance for it in the educational field.
As for my second tool, I believe the calendar could be very helpful in my life as a teacher. A teacher's life can be very chaotic. A teacher always has something that is due. Google calendar is a great way to keep up with the huge multitude of things a teacher must juggle from day to day. On my calendar, I simply just mapped out my solid weekly schedule to see how it worked. It schedules things in thirty minute intervals, which was a slight problem for me. Some of the things I do, like class, are scheduled on fifteen minute intervals, not thirty. Otherwise I found it to be wonderful to keep up with my daily schedule. The last thing I found interesting was that it let you see your schedule by 1 day, 4 days, a week, and a month at a time. It makes it great for people who plan day to day and for people who plan way ahead of time.
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