Finally here!!
I love it when the site says, "go ahead and play around with it as you like". I always get this evil grin and start chuckling.
I played with Google Alerts and Google Translate. I LOVE Google alert. That thing is so cool! I typed in my favorite actor for my alert...I haven't gotten anything yet but here's hoping! And what I found so cool about this tool is you don't need a Google e-mail account for it to work. I used my Yahoo! account (which I've had since I was like 12), so the compatibility is wonderful. I always hate it when you want to use a cool new tool and you have to create a whole new account somewhere different. Not this time!! This would be useful in education because you could create an alert for news to use for current events talks and information your students might be studying soon.
I also played with Google Translate. I typed a phrase in and got the German phrase, "Hallo, Herr Albert. Ich mag zum Kuchen essen." See if you can plug it back in and get the phrase I typed in! This tool would be wonderful if you had ELL learners. You would be able to send notes and information to their parents (granted you would want to keep it simple, I mean it is just a free online translator). But you could also find sites for them in their native language and check the relevancy and content by using the tool where you can translate the whole page!
on a side note: I just got an alert! Teehee this gadget is so cool!
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