Search Engines | TryEngineering Lesson Focus Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of search engines has revolutionized Internet. Students work in teams to understand the technology behind search engines and explore how they can retrieve useful information using search engines. Age Levels: Objectives Learn about basics of a search engineLearn how to query search enginesLearn how to find relevant material using advanced search optionsLearn about teamwork and problem solving Anticipated Learner Outcomes As a result of this activity, students should develop an understanding of: teamworkimpact of search engines on world wide web (www)techniques to build efficient search queries Lesson Activities Students build search queries. Resources/Materials Teacher Resource DocumentsStudent WorksheetsStudent Resource SheetsComputers with Internet access Alignment to Curriculum Frameworks Curriculum alignment sheet is included in PDF.
RSS Readers (RSS Info) RSS Readers RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. You read these files in a program called an aggregator, which collects news from various websites and provides it to you in a simple form. But what aggregator to use? Here are some choices: Top Picks Mac OS X: NetNewsWire This elegant Mac-like aggregator is easy to use and powerful. Windows: SharpReader Simple, but gets the job done. Linux: Liferea A simple Gtk newsreader. Runners-Up AmphetaDesk A news aggregator you access through a web browser. FeedDemon A more complicated aggregator for Windows. FeedReader Like SharpReader, but sporadically updated. News Is Free Lets you create your own customized news page with feeds from the sites you're interested in.
RSS _ Bittorrent Over the last couple week's TiVo let slip that they're going to start adding banner ads when we try to fast-forward commercials (and to make things even more annoying, Congress is considering a bill that might make fast-forwarding through the commercials on DVDs illegal). So we've pretty much decided we're not going to use a TiVo anymore and that instead we'll go with other solutions (for now) like a Media Center PC, as well as rolling some of our own ways to download TV shows. For this week's How-To we're going to show you how you can use RSS and BitTorrent to find and download your favorite shows, automatically, using free software. RSS and BitTorrent Before we get started, it might be a good idea to introduce a few topics if you're not familiar with them. Disclaimer Make sure you check with your local, state and country's laws—In some cases you may be downloading (and uploading) copyrighted material. The future of TV? (Mr. Download and install Azureus from here. Now start Azureus.
Integrate iPads Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy With This 'Padagogy Wheel' You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington, this thing is a monster and deserves some focused attention. So I’d make a personal plea to save the hi-res image (below) or print out the PDF (available here) and then spend your long weekend closely examining this thing. The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom’s. See Also: 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy What do you think of some of the apps and where they’re placed on the wheel? The Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Beginner's Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress Are you looking for a way to keep spammers and scammers from stealing your WordPress blog posts using content scrapers? It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in Google, and stealing your audience. In this article, we’ll cover what blog content scraping is, how you can reduce and prevent content scraping, and even how to take advantage of content scrapers for your own benefit. What Is Blog Content Scraping in WordPress? Blog content scraping is when content is taken from numerous sources and republished on another site. Unfortunately, it is very easy and very common to have your WordPress blog content stolen in this way. Sometimes your content will be simply copied and pasted directly to another website, including your formatting, images, videos, and more. Other times, your content will be reposted with attribution and a link back to your website, but without your permission. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
RSS Articles and Tutorials RSS Links and Resources Defined in XML, the Rich Site Summary (RSS) format (aka "Really Simple Syndication"), previously known as the RDF Site Summary, has quietly become a dominant format for distributing news headlines on the Web. WebRef maintains its own RSS feeds, including our our front page, and JavaScript Tip of the Day. WebReference Articles Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL RSS has become the standard technology for syndicating information to large audiences. How to Use RSS Replay in Dreamweaver Layouts RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is about sharing content with new audiences. The Anatomy of an RSS Feed RSS has become the standard data format for communicating sydicated information to a large audience. How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Review: Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom Two of the fastest growing technologies on the Web today are RSS and Atom. RSS History
Beyond Minecraft: Games That Inspire Building and Exploration By Tanner Higgin, Graphite The success and popularity of Minecraft in and out of classrooms is no surprise. It’s one of the best examples of the potential of learning with games because it embraces exploration, discovery, creation, collaboration, and problem-solving while allowing teachers to shepherd play toward any subject area. But Minecraft is not the only game of this kind. 1. Garry’s Mod (GMod) is a sandbox game like Minecraft but instead of building and exploring, students use a fun physics engine that simulates things like gravity and mass. 2. Kerbal Space Program has a robust physics engine too, but it’s more focused than Garry’s Mod. 3. Sound Shapes is a visually stunning platform puzzle game set to a rich musical soundscape. For creative kids who want to get their hands dirty, check out DIY, a site where students can find things to build, instructions for how to build them, and ways to share their creations with others. Related
Finding Your Fan Page’s RSS Feed URL on Facebook While it’s relatively easy to bring data INTO Facebook using RSS applications (RSS Graffiti being my favorite)… Facebook isn’t particularly a fan of data LEAVING! So, we’re going to do a little Facebook wizardry! However, sometimes, we have darn good reasons to want to ascertain some control over this data… particular in the form of making a backup or re-purposing the content. Recently a colleague inquired: “Where can I find the RSS feed for a Facebook page? The answer is that Facebook keeps making this task more and more challenging! (You noticed that, I see!) Originally, in the left hand sidebar of the Facebook page, we had a handy little RSS icon that made this relatively simple! Now, as Facebook has come to push users to engage through the applications API interface, the expectation is that all of the access to our feeds that we need… can be accomplished via those tools. What we need, sometimes, is an oldschool RSS (or RSS 2.0 or ATOM feed). 1) First, we need to get our FB Page ID Number.
Inventive Games That Teach Kids About Empathy and Social Skills By Tanner Higgin, Graphite Play is nothing if not social. Games organize play, allowing us to wrangle and experiment with the world. When we play games, more often than not, it’s us under the microscope. Video games, however, have been a bit of an aberration in the history of play and games. Many of them have been solitary experiences. 1. This app features a series of appealing animated episodes that model real world social situations. 2. Billed as an “indie minimalist platformer,” Thomas Was Alone’s characters are just colorful shapes, yet they all have distinct personalities. Thomas Was Alone 3. The most experimental and perhaps most irresistibly interesting game on this list, Way makes collaboration and communication crucial to success. Way 4. Social Adventures All of the games above are designed – both explicitly and implicitly – to be pro-social, but what about games that aren’t? Click here for more reviews of games and apps. Related
RSS Search Engine - Find Feeds with Instant Search Instant RSS Search engine will help you discover RSS feeds on the web around your favorite topics. You may use the tool to search RSS feeds for blogs, news websites, podcasts and more. It is instant search and hence the search results display as you type. You may use any of the Google search operators - like allintitle, inurl, etc. - for more accurate results. You can subscribe to the feeds in your favorite RSS Reader (like Feedly) or use the Preview link to see the 10 most recently published articles from that feed.
N4L | Pond Pond is designed to act as a central hub for digital discovery and participation, where educational resources can be accessed and shared more easily and effectively. It combines the best parts of existing online tools and platforms to create a new, yet familiar, environment. Pond is independent of N4L’s Managed Network and can be accessed using any internet connection. Access to Pond is free for all school users. How Pond works Pond is a place where educators can discover content and services, share knowledge and engage with their peers. Pond’s comprehensive search function makes it easier for educators to find what they need. Through the ability to recommend, rate and comment on content and services found in Pond, educators can ensure the most suitable resources can be discovered by other users within Pond and used in the most beneficial manner possible.
The Teacher's Quick Guide To Digital Scavenger Hunts If you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet in your classroom, you’re ready for the adventure to begin! By adventure I mean, of course, the world of active learning through digital scavenger hunts. In this hunt, students are tasked with finding a particular physical object, person, or place and have to use technology to track it down. Note: an ‘online scavenger hunt’ usually implies that you’re hunting around online and not physically with classmates. For the purpose of this article, I’m focusing on the physical version I’ve dubbed ‘digital scavenger hunts’. The Simple Goal So now that you’re all ready to start your very first scavenger hunt, let’s figure out what the goals are. Finding The Technology Like the movie National Treasure, students will need a lot of ingenuity and tools to help them uncover the mysteries you’ve laid out before them. In an effort to get your scavenger hunt jump-started, here are a few useful tech tools that might be of use. Finding An Objective A Quick Note
The 5 Steps of Effective Technology Integration - Getting Smart by Dave Guymon - edchat, EdTech, education In schools, districts, and departments of education alike, a trend toward integrating technology into the education process is on the rise. One could argue that it always has been. But with the proliferation of Internet access in school buildings and the ubiquity of mobile computing devices, educators are taking note and beginning to consider new ways they can include these tools into their classroom instruction. The formalized field of educational technology is still in its infancy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. That a shift toward technology in education is on the rise isn’t what excites many educators in the profession.