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7 Google Search Techniques You Don’t Know Exist

7 Google Search Techniques You Don’t Know Exist
Google search is a powerful tool...sometimes more powerful than you realize! Are you taking advantage of some of the lesser-known Google search techniques? Here are a few of my favorites... SafeSearch It's surprising how many people don't know about Google SafeSearch! Word Definitions To quickly pull up the definition of a word, use "define:" followed by the word. Example: define:webinar Numeric Ranges Useful if you're looking for information that relates to a range of numbers (such as a price range or years). Example: television 1950...1960 Phone numbers Curious who keeps calling your cellphone and not leaving a message? Example: phonebook:555-555-5555 Excluding words or phrases If you're looking for something a little more obscure, narrow down your search results by asking Google to omit certain results by using the "-" symbol. Example: Florida vacation -Disney Specify results by document type Looking for a PDF? Example: "World War I" filetype:ppt Recipe View Example: Pumpkin Bread -Kimberly

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask 1. What can the URL tell you? Techniques for Web Evaluation : 1. 2. 2. 1. INSTRUCTIONS for Truncating back a URL: In the top Location Box, delete the end characters of the URL stopping just before each / (leave the slash). Continue this process, one slash (/) at a time, until you reach the first single / which is preceded by the domain name portion. 3. Check the date on all the pages on the site. 3. 1. What kinds of publications or sites are they? Are they real? 3. Expect a journal article, newspaper article, and some other publications that are recent to come from the original publisher IF the publication is available on the web. Look at the bottom of such articles for copyright information or permissions to reproduce. 4. 1. a. Type or paste the URL into alexa.com's search box. b. 1. The pages listed all contain one or more links to the page you are looking for. If you find no links, try a shorter portion of the URL, stopping after each /. 2. 5. 1. 2. WHY? More About Evaluating Web Sources

20 Million Prezi Users: Conversation with Drew Banks Drew Banks is the Head of Marketing at Prezi -- after treading across NC State's “Brickyard” plaza and down MIT’s infinite corridor, Drew cut his entrepreneurial teeth within game-changing companies such as SAS and Silicon Graphics. Hooked on disruptive innovation, Drew co-founded Pie Digital in 2005 to make home networking easy as pie! At Prezi, Drew returns to his SGI-spawned passion to change the world through visualization. Drew also writes. He's published a couple of business books on communications and social media, as well as a couple of novels on ... life. In this conversation, Drew discuss how Prezi evolved -- and what sets it apart. Geetesh: Prezi now has 20 million registered users -- what does this large user base mean to the folks at Prezi -- can you share some thoughts? Drew: Our 20+ million users -- and growing at over a million users a month -- are a vast source of inspiration. Geetesh: Many people know little about how Prezi originated – can you share some history?

Teaching Students to Effectively Use the Internet A search engine is essentially a database that points to Web sites and Internet resources. The search engine database is compiled by means of often called spiders, crawlers, or bots. These spiders, crawlers and bots are programmed to find web pages, follow all the links they contain and add any new information they find to the master database. It is important to remember that when you are using a search engine, you are not really searching the entire Internet, but a database of pages and resources from the Internet compiled by the bots. Once the information has been collected by the robot programs it is turned over to the search engine's indexing program. When you submit a query or question to the search engine, a searches the database compiled by the robot programs and indexing programs, identifies items that match your query and organizes and displays them in a particular order based on the relevancy or how closely they match your query. Search engine results can be misleading

What to do with Charts Charts are a problem. We’re always trying to display numbers and data, but it’s not easy to avoid a deluge of data. Thinking in terms of Evidence is good. If you believe this chart Visual Evidence is even better. If you’re a disciple of Edward Tufte, then you know that Beautiful Evidence is the way to go. It’s useful to have a few places to go when there are numbers involved, and you’re looking for an example. Here are a few sources I use. From his book, The Presentation, A Story About Communicating Successfully With Very Few Slides. From his book, The Back of the Napkin, Solving Problems And Selling Ideas With Pictures. Downloadable Excel and PowerPoint Templates from Juice Labs. A growing collection of Charts and Graphs for inspiration.

Ten Steps to Better Web Research Last fall I published Beyond Google which examines fifteen tools and strategies for getting students to look beyond the first two pages of Google search results. This morning I found through Kevin Jarrett a great presentation that complements my ebook. Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research is a Slideshare presentation created by Mark Moran and Shannon Firth at Dulcinea Media. Dulcinea Media is the producer of Sweet Search a search engine for students. Transformation of Education Рынок предложений систем управления обучением (LMS, learning management system), систем электронного портфолио студентов (SIS, stident information system), электронных библиотек (eLibrary), онлайн-контента по учебным программам за рубежом бьют все рекорды. Школы, например, в США свободны в выборе наиболее приемлимых для них программных решений для построения своей школьной инфраструктуры и создания персонализированной среды обучения. Большинство предлагаемых программных продуктов предоставляются на платной основе (разово или по подписке), но все большую популярность приобретает бесплатная социальная образовательная платформа Edmodo. Это крупнейшая в мире платформа, объединившая более 20 млн участников образовательного процесса. По функционалу Edmodo представляет собой усеченную социальную сеть, похожую на Вконтакте и Facebook, но является безопасной образовательной средой, где в отличие от других сетевых платформ, нет внешней рекламы.

Калейдоскоп сервисов 80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom 80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff When you think of innovative, edgy, compelling uses of technology, Google Forms isn’t exactly the first thing that leaps to mind. While you’d probably prefer a piece of hardware that’s affordable, easy to use, and mobile that allows students to direct their own mastery of content in peer-to-peer and school-to-school learning environments, for now you just might have to settle for a spreadsheet. No, wait. Come back. Spreadsheets are simply a kind of framework, yes? And they have built-in formulas to perform calculations, visualize data, and communicate information in ways we–and students–are not used to seeing, right? So maybe a self-grading assessment? Questionnaires? See, I told you it’s not so bad.

Курирование это сокращенное «мы все помогаем друг другу фильтровать» ~ Обучение в стиле p2p (Источник: Rheingold, Howard. Netsmart: How to thrive online / Howard Rheingold ; drawings by Anthony Weeks. «MIT Press books», 2012. Сообщение в Tweeter – это атом. Люди всегда делал выбор о том, на что обращать внимание. Добровольные взносы в курирование каждого человека, кто когда-либо размещал ссылку на веб-сайт, блог или Tweeter, в конечном счёте, позволяют Google не только найти веб-сайты, в которых упоминаются указанные слова и выражения, но и ранжировать сайты в порядке популярности. Курирование является одной из форм участия, которая открыта для всех, кто не находит удовлетворенья в ведении блога, печати сообщений в Tweeter или обновлении профиля в Facebook, но c удовольствием делают закладки, теги, ставят лайки на то, что было создано другими людьми. В моем виртуальном сообществе у нас нет программных агентов (потому что они еще не существуют), но у нас есть неофициальные социальные контракты, которые позволяют нам выступать в качестве программных агентов друг для друга. 1.

«SlideRocket» — сервис для создания современной презентации SlideRocket – это Интернет-платформа для создания, редактирования и демонстрации современных многофункциональных мультимедийных презентаций. Активисты гражданских движений и сотрудники НКО довольно часто сталкиваются с необходимостью создания различных презентаций. Это может понадобиться для анонса новых проектов и будущих мероприятий, освещения и популяризации своей текущей деятельности, отчета о проделанной работе и так далее. Существует огромное количество программ и сервисов, с помощью которых можно сделать презентацию. Фрагмент интерфейса сайта SlideRocket SlideRocket представляет собой Интернет-платформу для работы с презентациями, с помощью которой пользователи могут создавать, редактировать, совместно использовать и публиковать презентации. Для начала работы с веб-приложением SlideRocket необходимо создать учетную запись. В разделе Presentations вы можете видеть все презентации, которые вы сделали самостоятельно или просто участвовали в их создании совместно с коллегами.

Great Twittorials for Teachers 11inShare Following the post I published a couple of days ago entitled 10 Video Tutorials on The Use of Twitter in Education, Lieberman contacted me and suggested more resources on Twitter to share with you. I checked the Twitter Learning centre from Cyberwise as she recommended and I found out some really great resources on the use of Twitter in education. I cant believe I missed out on them , they are just amazing. Check out this list for more articles on the use Twitter in Education You might also like: A Great New Twitter Guide for Teachers 10 Powerful Twitter Tools for Teachers Professional ... Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development The Best Twitter Tools and Tips Teachers should Know about Linkwithin @import url( Custom Search About Me I am Med Kharbach. Google+ Followers Subscribe To Posts Comments Visit Med's profile on Pinterest.

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