Google Voice

Google Voice is basically a cell phone on your computer. You can get a new number from your computer, and if you sync up your phone with your computer, if someone calls that number it will ring on the computer and you phone. That can be very useful if you don't want to give out your private number. They also have very low rates on long distance calls. It is a penny per minute. I definetly would recommend Google Voice to my friends.

Visitors To My Blog

All of my visitors have been from here in the United States. Most everyone who has visited my blog are from this class. If you want to get your own flag counter click here. If you want to get FeedJit to monitor who visits your blog click here.

Avatars

Today we went to many different websites to make avatars. Avatars are computer generated people you make. Some may resemble people, and some may not. One of the websites we explored was Build Yourself Wild. It is a website where you can make an avatar regular, or you can add a whole bunch of different animal parts onto it. Parts like elephant snouts, crocodile tails, and peacock feathers. Another website I explored was South Park Studios. It isa website where you can make your own South Park character. They even some contests to see who has the best one. I also used Be Funky. It is a photo editing site where you can edit photos to make them look better. I had a lot of fun exploring these websites.

My Poll

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Google Hangouts

Last class we learned about Google Hangouts. Google Hangouts is kind of like FaceTime, but you can have up to 9 people. You can only have 2 people in a FaceTime. On Google Hangouts, you can video chat with your friends, and you can add weird things on to your screen to make yourself look humorous. You can share your screen if you need to show somebody something on your computer screen. I had fun video chatting with my friends in class, and I think that Google Hangouts is a very useful program because if you need to show somebody something you can just invite them to a hangout. It also can be used for an international conference, or something like that.

Google Products

For the past couple of weeks we have been exploring Google Products. We explored Google Maps, which is used for finding places that you may not know the address for, or getting road maps to go somewhere when you really aren't sure how to get there. We also explored Google Trends. It is a sight that shows what kind of things are trending or were trending recently. Another cool app we used was Google Drive. Google Drive is a very helpful way to store documents, and still be able to get them on another computer. We practiced using spreadsheets, presentations, and just blank documents on there. We also learned how to share a document so that other people will be able to view and edit it. We also used Panoramio. It is just like Google Maps, but it adds more pictures of the place yo are looking for. We also learned about Google Books and Google News. Google Books is an easy way to find a book you want to read and be able to read it instantly. Google News is just like a news website, but its all different websites put into one. We also learned about Google+. Google+ is a social media site kind of like Facebook. You can share pictures with your circles of friends, and you can instant message people if you need to. Learning about all of these was very fun and educational.

My Presentation

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