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Technology to the students!!

Originally uploaded by Extra Ketchup
I have lots of school library media specialists in the technology classes I teach. They are often the ones in the forefront of using technology in their school districts and come up with great ideas for how technology can support student learning and help teachers do their jobs better.  At the [...]

50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Nicely organized and handy cheat sheet of search shortcuts for Google & Yahoo. Also available as a  3 page doc file and a separate html page for easy printing.

NYLA SLMS & Some New Google Services

I’m looking forward to presenting two workshops at the NYLA SLMS 2009 Conference next week. One of the sessions is on Google tools for schools. In the conference program I suggested people stop by my blog and tell me about their favorite Google tools. A bit late, but the invitation is still open and open [...]

Google gadget tutorial

This tutorial from SEOish on How to Make Google Gadgets uses  google gadgets to teach about making google gadgets. Love the video next to the gadget editor. Clever and effective.

Google Gadgets & Library Search

Last year I fiddled around with creating some simple Google Gadgets for the catalogs of my local library systems. Mostly to figure out how to create them, but also because I’m lazy. I wanted easy access to all my local library catalogs in one place, on an iGoogle page.
I haven’t looked at editing gadgets [...]

Google in Quotes

Via Phil Bradley’s weblog:
Google has come out with a really clever gizmo that they’re calling ‘Google in Quotes‘. Basically it pits two political figures from some major countries together allowing searchers to type in a search term in order to compare what they say about the subject. The experiment comes in various country flavours…
This service [...]