Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Thing #12

For Thing #12 I decided to explore Google Calender and Picasa Web Albums, and I believe that both of these can be used in a classroom.

Teachers could use the Google Calendar to help keep their job (and even their personal life) in order. If progress reports are supposed to go home on Friday, the teacher can put "record grades at 5:00 pm" in the calendar for Thursday as a reminder. Parent-teacher conferences, test days, and teacher inservices are just a few of the many things a teacher could put in her calendar to help keep her days / weeks straight.

With parents permission, Picasa could be used in the classroom as well. The teacher could upload pictures from a field trip, Halloween party, etc. to Picasa and the parents could see exciting pictures from all the events or parties their child attended while they were at school. The teacher could also set her album on Picasa to private and use it as a "keep sake" to look back on year after year.

Here are my creations:

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