Archive for the ‘search tools’ CategoryTest-driving instaGrokFriday, February 3rd, 2012I had a wonderful chat with the co-founders of instaGrok, a new search tool designed to help users learn about a topic by facilitating the finding of context and educational content. Still in Beta, InstaGrok is nurtured by Imagine K12, an incubator program devoted to supporting early stage ed-tech startups through a funding and mentorship program. instaGrok is not a manually-created directory; it… Read More Quixey and other app finding toolsMonday, January 30th, 2012I am adding another search engine to my search toolkit. Quixey has been around since 2009, but it’s new to me. The search was designed to solve a problem – millions Google’s Evolution of Search, my lament, and will a giant listen?Friday, December 2nd, 2011
I realized that my goals for student inquiry and information seeking are different from Google’s goals for user question answering. That we see our end user’s needs differently. And that I miss… Read More On Why Johnny Can’t Search (with shout-outs to Francey & Buffy!)Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Thompson reported on research conducted by College of… Read More Truth, Lies, and the InternetTuesday, October 4th, 2011
Researchers Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller reviewed current literature and conducted an online survey of 509 primary and secondary school teachers in England and Wales regarding… Read More Curation is the new search toolFriday, September 30th, 2011I hope to introduce a variety of curating tools to classes and individual students this year. While this is an exciting way for learners to discover how to manage their information worlds, not everyone actually needs or wants to curate every single time they begin research. Students and teachers can exploit the curation efforts already out there. In fact, the new curation tools present an exciting new genre Delicious StacksWednesday, September 28th, 2011The reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. With Stacks–a kind of fusion of bookmarking, microblogging, curating, and sharing–Delicious beefs up and prettifies its popular bookmarking service. What’s a Stack? The site explains that these playlists for the web are collections of links: Free stuff from JSTORThursday, September 8th, 2011My kiddos are true JSTOR junkies. They rely on the scholarly database for their research in many areas, but particularly in history and lit crit. Alas, not every high school can squeeze this subscription into their budgets. But cheer up, young historians and scholars . . . Earlier this week, JSTOR announced that they are making their early journal content (stuff published prior to 1923… Read More ERIC gets social (5 new ways to do ed research)Saturday, August 13th, 2011
In case you never had the pleasure . . . Sponsored by… Read More Google Search Education EvangelismTuesday, August 9th, 2011
For teachers librarians, it’s a rich source of instructional content for use with young learners and with colleagues in professional development. Lessons fit into four categories:
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