My experience with the different google tools was pretty fun and interesting. I tried the Calendar but I really didn't have enough dates to fill it up. So my favorite tools are the google translate and the Google alerts through email. I have a favorite NBA team so it will help alert me on games, statistics, and scores. I think the calendar is a wonderful tool because you can also have it as an app on your phone which will inform you of an appointment or anything that you want to be informed about off the calendar. I also subscribed to get alerts off of facebook. I believe this will be handy tool with google alerts to come through your phone. Especially as a teacher you can have it where if you have a facebook and the parents of your students are your friends it will instantly alert you with any comments or questions they might have. Also, if you give all parents at the beginning of the year an email; as they email you, google alerts will alert you on your cell phone to let you know that they have sent an email. On the google translate, I asked it to translate Where is your homework? I thought immediately this would come in handy for teachers that have students that speak a different language. The teacher can go to this website type in english what they want to say and it will tell you how to say it in a different language. Also it will do just the opposite by helping a student that doesn't speak english to be able to comprehend what the teacher is telling them. Pretty helpful tool!
Translate:http://translate.google.com/#auto|es|Where%20is%20your%20homework%3F
Google Alerts!http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?hl=en&gl=us
