Thing 17

More Online Productivity...

When told we were to look for online tools to use, I first thought of all of the stuff I use in Google. The tool that I use the most is Google Calendar. I can keep track of my stuff, my husband's stuff, and school stuff all in the same place easily and in different colors for each one. I also like that it updates in all of the different locations I use the calendar such as my (soon to be made) website and phone. I can even make a calendar for my high school algebra class with the assignments for the week on it and share it with my students and parents.

I looked at 30 Boxes and Remember the Milk (I love the name), and I found that these tools were already in Google so I'm sticking with them. I did like the Zoho Show site. Since we haven't looked at slide shows yet (see next Thing) I found this very interesting. I often want to make presentations to use at school but I don't have PowerPoint on my computer at home. This would be very helpful so I can make something at home and use it at school.

I did also find the Knowtes site great. I could see my students using this a something different for their vocabulary lists. It would also be an interesting way to present some new material. I could also see my environmental science students using bubbl.us to make concept maps of the biomes they study.

With all of the new online tools in the future (or now for that matter) will we even need a computer of the past that has all of our "stuff" saved on it, or will these new netbooks (I think they only go online) that are so small, be all we would need? If we didn't need the large keyboard, maybe our phones will be all that we will need? What will they think of next?