What I’m Reading
If you take pictures with your smart phone, chances are that weeks go by before you “do” anything with them. I just learned a great way to instantly and automatically back up those photos. As you may know, Google has re-branded Picasa web albums as part of Google+. I don’t do much with Google+ but [...]
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I’m not sure how long it has been available, but I just noticed that one of the options on Google Docs is a draw document. I could see this coming in very handy for Tablet PC users who want to collaborate on sketches or diagrams with multiple users at once. At a glance the draw [...]
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Source: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/index.html Google recently announced details of the new contest where students can design their own take on the Google logo. Teachers must register their school and be the one to actually submit the logo to the contest. (I found the write up about he history of the logo interesting, it might make a good [...]
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http://www.google.com Before the year, if you left the search box blank and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” on the google search page you got a second by second countdown to the 1/1/10. Now that 2010 is here, do the same thing and see what happens.
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http://www.google.com/ Google via kwout Navigate to Google’s home page. Leave the search box empty and select “I’m Feeling Lucky.” You’ll see a large number counting down. What can you do with this number? Have your students predict in their journals what they predict this number might represent. Depending on the level of interest, repeat the [...]
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I did not used to recommend that people use Google Sites for their class website. I found the templates to be on the boring side, it was more difficult to use than other tools such as Weebly and I didn’t like how the URL was so long once the site was published. Two of the [...]
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