Thing 12

The two Google web tools I choose to use were Google Calendar and Google Translate.

This is a direct link to the calendar I composed:
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?gsessionid=6aTy_MQLJcOl9gOUgQdoNA

This was really fun to play with and I like that you can share your calendar. If you want to invite friends to join your calendar, then they can add things to a shared calendar. This would be great to use in the classroom for students when they wanted to pick days to present things to the class or sign up for days to use the computer. There are lots of things you could use this for and its very simple to use.

This is a direct link to some of the phrases I translated in Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=Happy+St.+Patrick%27s+Day&sl=en&tl=es#en|es|what%20are%20you%20doing%20tomorrow%3F

SO MUCH FUN!! Ok. I am a geek, but I love to hear things in other languages and this tool is awesome! It actually translates and gives you an option to hear it! How cool is that? This would be an amazing app to have on your cell phone if you were in a foreign country. All you would need to do is type in your sentence, listen to the translation, and repeat. You would obviously need to know how to translate back what they say..so this may not be a perfect method, but it is a start. As far as a class room setting...sky is the limit! You can use this tool to have students in a foreign language class practice speaking the language, translating material, and even searching foreign websites. YES.. i said foreign websites because it will translate a website into English as well. I really need to get out more..it is amazing what you can find on here!