About Thing #12 Album

I found using Picasa Web Album tools from Google was very easy and user friendly, however, it does take time to upload photographs. I am also finding that putting it in slide show format on my blog spot is causing the spot to download more slowly. This would be a useful tool to use in putting together a school newspaper website. The students could upload pictures on a common Google account and create a slide show of each sporting event for the school newspaper.

I also set up my iGoogle page. It was fun adding the different gadgets that I would like to see each time I go on-line. I set this page up strictly for fun with news items about television, movies, comics, and other trivia. This feature could be used in a classroom by limiting the menu to news articles that would be of importance to students and their classroom work. It would be a great place to get current events quickly to use in the classroom. I did not see a way to link others to my iGoogle page.

I also checked out the alerts and set up the calendar. The calendar feature would be good to share with my family in Texas as they are always asking when I have time off and what I am up to.