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July 20, 2012 5:52 pm
Google Educast #056: 20 Percent Time = Awesome Learning
On this week’s Google Educast Show: our host Chris Betcher, along with fellow Google Certified Teachers Kevin Brookhouser and Fred Delventhal and special guest Googler Tasha Bergson-Michelson talk about the Power searching with Google MOOC, plus latest news from Google, a snapshot of the World Wonders Project, and some awesomely good classroom work from Kevin’s Grade 10 students from their 20% time projects.
January 30, 2012 8:00 am
InstaGrok Educational Search Engine
Can you define the word “Grok?” InstaGrok is a developing answer-engine that is specifically designed for the education market. The mission of InstaGrok is to teach 21st Century research and curation skills in a safe, age appropriate environment. InstaGrok is commercial free and organizes search results according to themes and concepts. In a way, InstaGrok is similar to Wolfram|Alpha as it provides answers and information rather than a list of links. Using the search box, type in any term or idea that you are interested [...]
December 9, 2011 3:00 pm
Google Educast #28: Inside Search Education with Tasha (from @Google)
Here’s the breakdown for this episode: In the News: YouTube’s makeover, easier ways to oversee e-mail in Google Apps for Education, and Computer Science Education Week. Interview with Tasha Bergson-Michelson of Google Search Education. Google Currents and an update to the Picasa application. Google Earth Puzzles, Placespotting, Listener Map reminder and #EduWin
July 29, 2011 1:09 pm
Google Educast Show #24: Your Back To School Google Guide
Show Host: Jay Blackman Show contributors: Fred Delventhal and Chris Atkinson Subscribe to The EdReach Podcasts on iTunes Subscribe to the EdReach Podcast Feed. The complete show notes are now on the EdReach Wiki. Don’t forget to add your comments below to answer our question “What Google Labs tool should Google save?” for your chance to win a Google+ invite! We’ll share some of the responses on next week’s show. Call us on our comment line! If you [...]
June 17, 2011 5:23 pm
Google Educast Show #20 – Search Is Back Big Time
Show Host: Jay Blackman Show contributors: Fred Delventhal and Kim Zimmer Subscribe to The EdReach Podcasts on iTunes Subscribe to the EdReach Podcast Feed. The complete show notes are now on the EdReach Wiki. Call us on our comment line! If you’d like to leave some feedback you can call us on our very own EdReach Comment line: That’s: (443) 93REACH.
April 20, 2011 8:00 am
Copyright: Finding images you can freely use
Last week, I posted about being hypocritical about copyright and attribution. In that post, I encouraged teachers to learn about creative commons licensing and to focus on using images that adhere to CC or have been licensed by the creator for “re-use”. In this post, I will outline how to leverage Flickr to search for Creative Commons licensed content. While Flickr (and Picasa) are very popular photo-sharing sites, we often think of them as just a place to “put” images for [...]
December 29, 2010 11:38 pm
Qwiki- An Information “Experience”
For years we dreamed of a day where, you said to your computer “Computer- tell me everything there is to know about ______________.” And the computer would then show you all details, movies, pictures, related stories and text regarding that subject. The first thing I think of is the scene in Star Trek II (or many previous Star Trek episodes), where Kirk needs to get up to speed on some data or planet. I also think of Wall E, where [...]
