the 12th man *thing 12*

I never knew that Google did anything more than search for everything in the world and give you access to an email account. Google tools gives you a lot of other things that you can do. iGoogle is really neat with all the gadgets and other tools that let you customize it to your liking. I ended up making iGoogle my homepage because I didn't have one and I added everything that I enjoy looking at on there. This could be used in the classroom for personal and/or student use to keep up to date with news topics or anything else we choose to look at daily. Google Translate is very convenient. Instead of having to "google" translator websites, you can just automatically go to Google Translate and translate anything you need. This tool could be used in the classroom for whenever there is an assignment or research that has something written in a different language. You could easily pull it up and translate the words in to English or vice versa. Picasa Web Albums is a site that lets you share your photos with others and also look at a ton of other peoples photos. When I first went to this tool, it pulled up all the photos that I had on my blog which was pretty cool but also kinda creepy because my face was just sitting there on a website that I had never been too! Google Calendar is a pretty nifty tool also. Its something I probably wouldn't use, because everything I do try and use an electronic calendar of some sort I always forget about.