Thing 12

It's amazing to me how far Google has come. I can't tell you how many times a day I "googled" something to find an answer or a website. It really is the most popular search engine that I know of. Now it has so many other cool features to it! 
I experimented with Google Translator and I really liked it. It actually translates as you type in English to whatever language you want. I can see how that would be really useful to a Spanish teacher in high school.
I also made a Picasa Web Album. It is really similar to Flickr. But I like it a little better because you can click and drag pictures straight into the upload box. It super easy and a lot faster. It would be a good feature for the classroom for sharing images and creating fun projects for the students. 

Translator Site

Picasa Web Album

Thing 11

 I found that using the google blogger search was the easiest method of finding RSS feeds. It helps if you already know what you want to find though. I found that Technorati was pretty easy to use. I liked that it showed a variety of articles on it's homepage. By searching for key words you can narrow the results down and read the title and first few sentences without opening it to see if you want to open and read it.

I also found that the Topix.net was a little complicated to use. You need to know a tag word to start searching. I used "classroom". This was a little too broad of a topic I think. It showed me hundreds of topics and just made it difficult to find anything useful in all the "fluff".

I can see how these blogs would be useful as an educator for when I want to get good ideas for my classroom and lesson plans.