|
|
 Richard Byrne at the Free Technology For Teachers blog is sharing a great poster with Ten Techniques to Make Yourself a Google Search Star. Think about sharing this with your students (and staff) and posting it in your library. Katie Add Comment  Check out these great resources made available by the folks at Google on the Good to Know page about staying safe and making wise decisions online. The reviewer on the Tech and Learnng Advisor blog pointed out a gem under the "Family Safety Center" and "More Resources" called THINKB4U. Entertaining videos to share with your students. Check it out!! Katie I really shouldn't be doing this right now but this is SO pertinent to what we do, both as librarians and as we venture into the iPad universe, that I have to be sure to share and not let this post slip off my radar. From a new-to-me blog called Pegasus Librarian, via a favorite source on searching in Google, Tasha Bergeson-Michelson, is this post titled "Good searching really isn't about searching." READ IT! Its by Iris Jastram, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Carleton College. Katie  Shannon Miller's latest post about Little Critter is jam packed with wonderful ideas but one I REALLY, REALLY like is the GoogleDoc she shares with her teachers so she can better support the students during their library visits. I think that should be our next group project in October but don't wait til then if you want to try it out. And be sure to read about all the other nifty things she did with with Little Critter!! After hearing at AKLA about how search engines are changing and how they are 'personalizing' searches for us, whether we want them to or not, based on what else we've looked at, not only on Google but in Facebook and a host of other online sites I decided to watch this TEDTalk recommended by Nancy Warren. She presented the 'Searching Like a Pro' session at AKLA on Friday. I think you'll agree that this video is 9 minutes well spent. I would recommend you use it with your older students.....and your staff !!! Katie  Did you know you can embed code from Discovery Ed into a Google Earth project? Here is a link to a number of lessons which could be great starters for teachers and librarians! Some of the screen shots appear to be an older version of Google Earth than what I have but I was still able to walk through the steps. The process does require the viewer to login before viewing the video clip which is not as neat and tidy as embedding a video in a powerpoint. Still....neat way to tie Discovery Ed to Google Earth! Katie Last year I attended a session at the 2010 May Mixer put on by Lyn Ballam on creating Google Custom Search Engines. Look on our new page under the MORE section called Custom Search Engines to see an example. I will post one here as well, though for now it doesn't have the nice picture the other one does. But test it out and type in some ocean related topic like 'whales' in the box and see what happens. It is set up so you are only searching within the websites I selected. Great way to focus students on the resources you want them to see. They think they're doing a Google search and they are | ArchivesMay 2013 CategoriesAll |
RSS Feed