Thing #12

I have always loved Google Translate. What's great now is you can type and it automatically translates into what ever language of your choice as you're typing. You don't have to wait and press a button to see the translation. No doubt this will massively help me in my ELA classroom when we are reading text with portions in other languages. Students will easily skim over portions of a text in different languages, but that is not acceptable. It obviously must be of some importance or else it would not be there. Both Google Scholar and Google Books have helped me in my research for my paper in another graduate class. I'm writing a research paper on violence against teachers in our country, and many books popped up just by me typing in "teacher violence". If excerpts are available Google will even give me the pages if they happen to contain my search term. I'm able to grab a little bit of research without having to search far and wide for a book and the particular pieces of information that I need. Google Scholar helps with finding periodical journals regarding my research topic--not just for my paper on violence against teachers but for any subject which requires the proper educated viewpoints and research.