Thing 12

My favorite out of the Google apps are Picasa and Google Translate. These are particularly fun for me. Picasa you can download onto your computer and it automatically updates every single picture on your computer and then allows you to "tag" people in it and then eventually learns peoples faces and can identify them for you. It's particularly useful if you're trying to find a picture of a certain person. You can just go on there and it will show you every picture of that person that is on your computer.

Google Translate is another favorite of mine (remember, I'm a French major) because it helps if you're in a hurry to translate or you're in class and you don't know a word so you just google it on your phone. It's very useful.

Picasa doesn't have a lot of educational use, in my opinion. It's more for personal use on your computer. Most foreign language teachers hate Google Translate and other online translators because for one the student isn't doing his/her work but expecting the answer to be handed to them and another the translators don't always translate correctly. With this said, I think there's a time and a place for it. You have to use it effectively.

Overall, I think that Google has a lot of apps that are useful and enjoyable online. You just have to spend a little time using them to figure them out, but when you do then it's worth it.