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Google Search with Updates
Aug 29th
Often when something is going wrong or there is breaking news traditional sources can be a bit slow. Now Google Realtime search indexes Twitter, which might not always be a good thing but in the case of http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ it’s a handy addon and I’ll be interested to trial it in class during a major event like the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
This new service can be accessed from the left-hand side of Google’s main search results page under “Updates,” or directly through a different URL: google.com/landing/realtime
Google is currently running limited tests of the function, which is said to be one of “50-200 experiments” operating simultaneously on the search engine.
Google Wonder Wheel and Time line
Aug 20th
Having been introduced to Google Wonder Wheel I am again shown that despite something being right under my nose I had not seen it before. Introduced in May of last year as well. I’ve been using this with my History classes to guide their research on NZ History. We have also enjoyed using the Timeline tool where we can search by posts from a specific date which further increases the accuracy of the information to first hand accounts.
Katikati Goes Google School
Oct 30th
As you can see from the Image below we have begun our transition to Google School. Our initial reason was we see no point in going to ms exchange and find squirrel mail inadequate so why not try google. But then of course this gives us the benefits of having each student seeing a unified homepage (Google can lock down the gadgets kids can add to an EDU set) and every student has their mail,documents and website at their fingertips.
Customising it has been easy as uploading a couple of images and now it’s just the process of pointing our Domain at the right place and we go live. I will blog the results of the full student and staff transition in the next few weeks.
Google earth does Beijing
Aug 10th
If you really wish to show your class around the olympics add the google earth kml file to your installation of google earth and prepare to be impressed. Results and all the venues with the obvious photos from panoramio really fleshing things out. I especially liked seeing how they had the huge globe come out of the centre of the stadium.
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