Applying new skills to my professional and personal life

Professionally
The new concept that will be the easiest for me to incorporate everyday is social bookmarking.  As I said last time, I am a traveling teacher, sometimes I bookmark websites on the computer in my office and then would like to share it with my students but cannot. Also, I am on the Internet a lot at home, if I find something great I can use this tool rather than writing down the website.

I will also be using google docs more. In the past, I have had students work collaboratively on documents through google docs.  It works well because if they have work time in class they don't have to worry about their partner having saved it on a Usb drive that they don't have along or their partner being absent. 

I would like to start blogging in my earth science class next semester.  In the past,  I have used moodle to make copies of my presentations available to students.  If I have a blog and a link to my moodle I could ask pose questions that require higher order thinking and they could look back to the presentation to help form an answer. In this class, I would also like them to work collaboratively on a geologic time line, we have done it with a paper and pencil in the past but I am trying to figure out a way to do it online.  Any ideas?

Personally
I am really happy to have learned about google hangout. I have family in two different parts of Texas that I could now "hang out" with at the same time. 

I am also planning on working on documents collaboratively.  I struggle as a writer, my grammar and spelling are sometime poor.  My writing is pretty boring, I don't use many vivid words. My sister is a very good writer and enjoys editing my writing but we cannot get together often.  Using google docs, she can edit my writing anytime and I can read her writing for enjoyment.

As far as web browsers go,  I am pretty attached to Chrome.  I will use others if I have to and I do understand how it is beneficial to be aware of the pro and cons of the others but I will stick with Chrome.