Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Reflect on the challenges and successes from yesterday and today

I think the biggest challenge I face is learning all these new tools and becoming comfortable with them.  If I don't spend the time now learning them, I will forget the basic information and I won't use them in the future.  So much information has been presented that I feel very over whelmed.  I fear that I will latch onto only one or two of these new tools and forget the rest.  Some of the apps are too similar to other things that I use so I will probably discard them and not try to learn them at all, specifically google plus and photos.  I am very excited to have learned more about google calendars and being able to sync them with my ipad and iphone calendars.  I am looking forward to discovering more uses for google forms.  Blogger is cool but I'm not going to continue using it for personal use, but when I teach again, I can see how it would be very useful.  I was happy to learn more about the features in gmail.  I do use it regularly and you were able to show me a few things I had not discovered on my own.   I definitely feel more proficient now while using it.  Google voice is somewhat enticing to me just because I have an out of state cell number and I think that it might be kind of nice to have a 'local' number.

1 comment:

  1. I think it's true that as you start to try out some of the various apps some will become favorites and others may never get used. I honestly don't use or haven't used some of the Google Apps in the classroom. Some of them I'm re-visiting again as I'm sharing them with you. There are a few I'm going to try and use more this coming school year.

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