Web searching: Your kids are doing it wrong

No offense but your kids are doing it wrong. I’m just saying. I’ve spent the last few months in a lot of social studies classrooms and I keep seeing the same thing. Kids who are wasting a lot of time searching for stuff. They can’t search effectively, ending up with results that aren’t useful. Part [...]

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InstaGrok – Search tool extraordinaire

I ran across InstaGrok last week and fell in love. InstaGrok is an “intelligent web search engine” designed to help you find educational content. It’s gonna help find online materials on most educational topics and at different knowledge levels. A ton of educational materials is scattered across the web, yet they are often difficult to [...]

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New Google Education Resources

Who doesn’t love Google stuff? It’s free. It’s high quality. It’s practical. Both teachers and students can use it. Did I mention that it’s free? (Need a stronger argument for using Google stuff?) Recent changes in the Google world have made it even easier for us to access their goodies. There are those who are [...]

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Google Apps Learning Center

Okay . . . you all know that I love Google stuff. Google Search, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Apps for Education. Love ‘em all. So it’s kinda cool that Google has put together a Google Apps Learning Center just for me. And I’m not greedy, feel free to drop by anytime. There’s enough stuff [...]

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Tip of the Week – Google Text Search

Everyday, I get the chance to work with a ton of smart people. A ton. And today I had the chance to learn from my 2000 pounds of friends about Google Text Search – a tool that takes advantage of standard Google Search functions such as weather, maps and local businesses in your cell phone’s [...]

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