Computer says no: Miley Cyrus gets deleted from the internet thanks to Google Chrome - MSN Entertainment UK. PA, MSN Celebrity Miley Cyrus - blocked from MSN Celebrity! Miley Cyrus is pretty much everywhere right now, thanks to her recent MTV Video Music Awards twerk-fest, her impressive tongue and her new music video for her song Wrecking Ball. However, if you want to take a Wrecking Ball to her presence on your computer, you can thanks to the folks at Google. With Google’s Chrome browser, you can now add a plug-in called No Cyrus, which stops any mention of the singer – or any words associated with her (such as ‘twerking’) – appearing on your device. According to the developer, it works by scanning pages that load in your browser and gets rid of those Mileyisms you just can’t handle anymore. Instead of seeing her name or related terms, you’ll just see a series of hashtags.
Stick your tongue out at that, Ms Cyrus. A virtual field trip to CERN, via Google Glass. Science Five videos that make particle physics child’s play: Physicists from CERN team up with TED-Ed Particle physics. To some, the words may produce anxiety. And while, yes, it is complicated — it is far from incomprehensible. On May 3, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, better known as CERN, held its first TEDx event, an illuminating look at how particle physics intersects with other disciplines. 6 reasons to watch TEDxCERN this Friday You have probably heard of CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator that is longer than the island of Manhattan. The Incredible Way A Michigan Physics Teacher Uses Google Glass.
The Unique Thing About Being A Teacher 3.89K Views 0 Likes. Google Docs Starter Sheet. Greg Swanson at Edtechtoolbox We have finally been able to get staff to start experimenting with Google Docs. A couple of the younger staff members in the HSIE department convinced the Head of Department that they could do a Unit Evaluation without anybody having to collate the information. This was a stroke of genius. They got a 92% survey completion rate and the tool gave them a breakdown of the ratings from the students about the different aspects of the course.
We have always completed student evaluations but I think in the past they have only paid lip service to the concerns or for that matter affirmation of the students - it just took too long to actually collate them. You then had to present the information in a legible form. Now we have a tool that will do it for us. We now have staff using Google Docs for Sign-up sheets, registering group projects and of course Pop quizzes. This is the Starter Sheet that we issued the students. The book of everything you need to know about Google+ Google & AP to Fund Digital Journalists of The Future. Google and the Associated Press have launched a national scholarship program designed to support the development of digital and new media skills in aspiring journalists. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will extend six $20,000 scholarships to undergraduate (sophomores and above) and graduate students pursuing degrees related to the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media in the 2012 to 2013 academic year.
The scholarship's administrators are looking for students working on "innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism" from a variety of geographic, gender and ethnic backgrounds. Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 to 2013 academic year. Recipients will be announced this spring. The scholarships represent just a slice of the the $5 million Google promised to donate to fostering the development in digital journalism in October 2010. Image courtesy of Flickr, US Mission Geneva [via Mediabistro] The Advantage of Google Docs in Education It’s no secret that Google Docs has made teachers more effective at teaching writing.
After making a full Google Docs integration this year in my history classroom, I will never go back. My students are required to write every paper in Google Docs. This way, I can help with the process and not just the finished product. In this post, I will talk about using Google Docs and the need for a chrome browser extension called WatchDocthat allows for the most efficient, effective teaching with Google Docs. WatchDoc displays a notification in your chrome browser every time someone updates a Google Doc that you share. Thus, whenever a student is working on his essay, I can meet him in his document and see exactly how he is doing.
Of course, this requires me to be in front of my computer, but, as someone who believes strongly in the importance of student writing, I would much rather help a student while he is writing than look at a final product with major deficiencies. Nate Green Educator. Google Goggles Uses Your Phone to Solve Sudoku and More! Google Goggles (left) vs a human champion (right). Guess who wins. Sorry Sudoku fans, you’re about to be beat by anyone with a smart phone. In their latest deviation from the ‘don’t be evil’ motto, Google has taught the Google Goggles application how to solve Sudoku puzzles. Cheating has never been so easy. GG, which allows its users to search the world visually, can take pictures using your smart phone camera (Android or iOS 4.0), identify what you’re looking at, and point you to the relevant information online. The most recent version of the application has faster bar code reading speeds, identifies print ads in magazines, and can put any Sudoku champion to shame.
We’ve got some great videos for you below highlighting each of the new features on Android devices, plus a video I shot myself to prove it all works on iPhone. No matter how good you may be at solving Sudoku puzzles, the internet is better. There are tons of apps out there that will read barcodes. God help us all. For Teachers – Google in Education. Why Google's Social Search Is Too Much, Too Soon. Google's recent change to its search engine is losing in the public opinion arena. Analysts have suggested the new feature, Google Search, plus Your World, "Pushes Google+ over Relevancy," and "just made Bing the best search engine. " Twitter called it "bad for people. " Meanwhile, about 2,000 Mashable readers have answered the poll question, "Would you prefer that Google, etc. go back to their old 'natural' search methods or do you find that inclusion of this data makes it easier to find what you’re looking for?
" Sixty-three percent of them said they don't want social search results. But is the idea behind "Search, plus Your World" terrible? We're not so sure. Social connections are a potentially great way to determine relevance. What I dislike about Search plus Your World isn't that Google has more deeply integrated social data on its search results pages. Too Much Social search results, for instance, often push more relevant non-Google+ results almost halfway down the page.
Too Soon. 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Google Forms is a great tool for the classroom and this post from 2008 has always proven popular on my blog. I hope you continue to be inspired by the ideas here. I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. 1 ) Get to know your class Use this form to gather some indication from your new class about their likes and dislikes, their favourite lessons or after school clubs they enjoy. 2 ) Emotion graph An emotion graph is a simple line graph comparing a range of happiness to sadness against different points (time) in a story or film.
Use a Google Form to gather the children’s responses to different parts of any type of linear narrative, written or visual. 3 ) Spelling test Steve Kirkpatrick had this brainwave a while back so check out his excellent post for more information about setting up the spreadsheet. 4 ) Comprehension questions. Opinion: Google’s privacy change – evil or business as usual? Google announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it will start tracking us across all its services - Gmail, Search, YouTube, etc. - and that it will share data on our activity across all of them. They dressed up the news in a typically cutesy video: Google says it's condensing its 60+ privacy settings into one easier-to-understand and more transparent document, which will subsequently pave the way for the company to merge its products into a more integrated and intuitive user platform.
In other words, as Mashable's Kate Freeman puts it, Google "needed to give itself permission to sync your products in the future. " Google already integrates a bunch of its products. Google's envisioning much more. An example: It's January. As Google says: People still have to do way too much heavy lifting, and we want to do a better job of helping them out. An example: Gizmodo's headline reads "Google's Broken Promise: The End of 'Don’t Be Evil'.
" Google changed the rules that it defined itself. Granted, Mr.