Google Fiend

     As a teacher, you know that your time is precious and if you aren't choosy about how you spend your time, you can find yourself frazzled, cranky, tired, and ineffective.  This past week I have unleashed the power of Google.  Well, at least my personalized iGoogle page.  I have to stay up-to-date on current events, family matters, weather, and so much more.  I can easily spend 10-15 minutes throughout the day checking on the personalized aps that I added to my page.  I love this. I feel much less frantic checking multiple sites all over the web.
      Furthermore, with the school year stretching out ahead of me I am truly looking forward to being able to use Google docs, Google forms, scholar, Blogger, and many of the other programs under the Google umbrella to unify my students, classroom, colleagues, and be more effective in authentically communicating with people.
      I'm also involved with several other organizations-church related, and otherwise.  I can already see the beneficial impact that being able to make up surveys and documents that can be collaborated on is going to have on these groups!  I am so excited.