Google Site!

The google sites help send out messages to other people from your family members to your classamtes. You can upload different things such as slideshows of how your summer went to your google calender so that people can see what you are up to. For example, my teacher uses his google site so that his students, such as myself, can go on it to check what is due for next class and what he expects out of us. I love it because I can check it where ever there is a computer and I don't have to worry about forgetting what the homework is.

Blogs

As you can see, blogs are used to communicate with practically anyone. Family and friends can access it to see how you're doing, or you can use blogs to learn about certain topics in our ever so complicated world. This blog is for my class, however it has shown me that I can express my thoughts and allow the world to understand my opinion as well as give their own.

Picasa

Have you ever used Photoshop and just got sick and tired of trying to figure out which code to use so that you could put your pictures of for all your friends to see? Well Picasa is the free application from Google that allows you to put the pictures that you choose online for the world to see. Not only that but it is also another way to store your photos on your desktop and edit them. Not as fancy as Photoshop but it definitely has its perks. Now I can simply use this to put different photos on my site for Tech or display them for any other kind of project.

Screen Shot Tool

Ever wanted to take a picture of your computer screen
but you just didnt know how? Well the solution to all your problems is right here. The screenshot tool allows you to simply take a snap shot of your desktop screen and apply it as something you simply need to 'paste'. As you can see from the picture to the right, all you have to do is press Alt and PrtScr. :) Now instead of looking ridiculous taking a picture of your screen for information in class, all you have to do is push two little buttons and voila!

Wordle

Wordle, as you can see on the right, is a website that conjures up word clouds. By simply putting in various words of your choice, the computer automatically arranges them and you can edit them as you wish. I can use this in school for creative lists, cover pages, or in presentations.

Get YouTube

There have been so many times where I have needed some sort of video for class, when the internet just decided to fail on me. Now, because of Get Youtube I don't need to worry about that. With Get Youtube, I can download different videos from YouTube onto my computer as an MP4 file. This way, I don't need internet to view the file and I can still present it to my class.

Delicious

Since Delicious.com is a social bookmarking site I can use this in school to help myself as well as my fellow classmates. For example, if I was assigned to do some kind of research paper, I would be able to save my websites on Delicious, and then I would have access to them from any computer. Not only that, but I would be able to look at what other sites my classmates are looking at to find more information.