Wolfram Alpha is an interesting search engine because of the unique tasks it can perform. Wolfram Alpha has a function that will walk you through the steps of solving an equation. To use this function, enter your equation then click …
Navify – Images and Videos to Match Wikipedia
Navify is a mashup of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. Navify attempts to match videos and images to Wikipedia articles. To use Navify, simply enter a search term just as you would on Wikipedia. The results of your search will be …
Social Networking: Rethinking Productivity
Nice paper looking at the benefits and negatives of social networking. An interesting negative is ‘social resistance to change’: “Active social networking opens you up to being heavily influenced by others. In a way it subjects you to a new …
8 Free and Easy Tools Innovative Educators Can Start Using Today
The following tools are all free and simple to use. This means there’s no cost, nothing to download, no CDs, no manuals and no training. The best of these also do not require users to have email, registration or log …
Free Video Editing Webinar (Dec. 17th, 2009)
Assigning a video creation project can be a great way to get kids excited about your class. When kids are excited about a project they will generally invest more effort into that project. YouTube is offering a free webinar that …
Google Launches Real-Time Search
We knew it was inevitable, and now it’s here: Google has just launched real-time search integrated into search results pages. Google real-time search updates as stuff is happening around the Web — for example, live tweets, Yahoo Answers, news articles …
How To Integrate Twitter with PowerPoint: Tweet Presentation Notes & See Instant Feedback
Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts …
Learning4Content
Nellie Deutsch and Gladys Gahona would like to invite you to a free 5-day e-learning professional development workshop for educators who want to learn how to use WikiEducator and Moodle to share online content with students, create and facilitate online …
Six Easy Ways for Students (and teachers too) to Create Videos Online
YouTube claims that twenty hours of video is uploaded to its site every minute. Much of this video is created by amateur video producers. In years past if you wanted to create video, you had to have (often expensive) recording …
Google Adds World Heritage Sites to Street View
Google has announced more additions to its Street View imagery. Google has added Street View imagery of nineteen UNESCO World Heritage sites around Europe. Some of these sites include the Palace of Versailles, Stonehenge, and the historic center of Prague. …
Survey: One-Third of Youths Engage in Sexting
If you think the sexting phenomenon is growing, you’re not imagining it. According to a new survey, almost one-third of youths admit they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-mailing a photo or video of themselves in the nude …
Sports Illustrated debuts digital magazine concept tablet
Time Inc, the publishers behind Sports Illustrated, has unveiled its digital magazine concept to the world outlining what it thinks an e-magazine should look like.
Google Zeitgeist 2009
Another year has come and gone, and as always, we’re taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, Google examines the billions of queries that people …
Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009
The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most popular words and phrases within the English language. In 2008, the #1 most popular word was “change” (referring to the …
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who’ve tried …