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TITLE of this wiki: LATEST INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS WITH THE GOOGLE SEARCH TOOL: LAST UPDATED FEBRUARY 2012
MANY NEW UPDATED RESOURCES at: http://irocaf.tumblr.com
NEW! FREE GOOGLE TUTORIALS: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html (contains many embedded videos and Power Points; excellent for training!)
IMPROVING THE GOOGLE SEARCH EXPERIENCE: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
5 Interesting Ways to Use Google News RSS Feeds: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-interesting-ways-google-news-rss-feeds/
TOP 10 HINTS for DOING e-Research at COLLEGE:
http://www.bit.ly/aYrW0f
10 STEPS for Better WEB RESEARCH:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/11/ten-steps-to-better-web-research.html (Based on 2010 Research)
100 Time-Saving SEARCH ENGINES for the Serious Scholar and Student: http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/03/100-time-saving-search-engines-for-serious-scholars/
FREE ONLINE COURSES and EDUCATION DIRECTORY: http://www.bit.ly/17AD73
2010 UPDATES to GOOGLE DOCS: http://www.bit.ly/96VK62
2011 NEW Google DOCS Tools to try:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/new-google-docs-tools-to-try.html
2011 WEBINAR ON ADVANCED USES OF GOOGLE DOCS http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/resource_center.html
2010 LIST OF SEARCH ENGINES and DIRECTORIES, A to Z:
http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm
GOOGLE SHORTCUTS:
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/11-helpful-cheat-sheets-for-popular-google-products
LESSER KNOWN GOOGLE TOOLS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS: http://www.bit.ly/dBxwIR
10 GOOGLE SEARCH TRICKS: http://www.tinyurl.com/ykvve33/
MY FAVORITE GOOGLE SECRETS: (by Mary Ellen Bates) http://www.bit.ly/9OQ38H
HOW TO SEARCH FOR IMAGES USING GOOGLE's ENHANCED 2010 IMAGE SEARCH: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/ooh-ahh-google-images-presents-nicer.html
GOOGLE FAST FLIP: SCAN NEWS SOURCES QUICKLY: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com
GOOGLE FOR TEACHERS PART 1: BOOKS, DOCS, MAPS AND MORE
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/03/free-33-page-guide-google-for-teachers.html
GOOGLE FOR TEACHERS PART 2 AN INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL FROM FREE TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS http://bit.ly/dz2M9m
GOOGLE TOOLS FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS for 2010: MANY OF THESE ARE LITTLE KNOWN: http://onlinephdinnursing.com/2010/25-little-known-google-tools-for-scholars-and-academics/
AMUSING VIDEO EXPLAINING GOOGLE DOCS: http://bit.ly/cin8zV
HOW TO SHARE WITH GOOGLE DOCS: http://www.bit.ly/dx5BpY
EDUCATOR's GUIDE to the Use of SOCIAL MEDIA in the CLASSROOM: http://www.bit.ly/9sh2GJ
EDUCATOR'S GUIDE TO HOW TO DO SOCIAL MEDIA: http://www.bit.ly/bUNIWp
VERY USEFUL CHEAT SHEETS FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND MICROSOFT PRODUCTS: http://www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm
COMMONCRAFT VIDEOS EXPLAINING TECHNOLOGY CLEARLY AND IN PLAIN ENGLISH:
BLOGS: http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs
RSS: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
RSS for Educators: http://www.slideshare.net/cliotech/rss-for-educators-216192/
wikis: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
FREE VIDEO SITES TO BRUSH UP ON TECH SKILLS: http://www.bit.ly/d5FZiR
2010 Social Media Action Plan: A Powerpoint
http://www.slideshare.net/social-media-action-plan-bullseye-presentation
THE NETWORKED NONPROFIT: USING SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTIVELY TO POWER SOCIAL CHANGE:
http://www.slideshare.net/MyCharityConnects/beth-kanter-the-networked-nonprofit-using-social-media-effectively-to-power-social-change (by Beth Kanter)
2010 Social Media Listening: Literacy for NonProfits Powerpoint: http://www.slideshare.net/kanter/listening-bootcamp-chicago-workshop?from=ss_embed
ROAD MAP FOR DIGITIZIATION FOR SMALLER INSTITUTIONS by UCLA Librarian Jacob Nadal, presented at the 2010 ALA Conference in Washington, DC.: "What to do before you digitize, a roadmap for smaller institutions." http://www.jacobnadal.com/84/
2010 AASL BEST WEBSITES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm#organizing
TOOLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY TEACHER:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/06/tools-for-21st-century-teacher-great.html
100 Excellent Online Lectures for Educators:
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/07/05/100-excellent-online-lectures-for-educators/
FREE PRINTABLE RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS: CAN DOWNLOAD AND PRINT FREE LESSON PLANS OR FREE TEACHING TOOLS: http://www.tpet.co.uk/#/home
Seven Videos all Educators should watch:
http://bit.ly/c5rvy2 (nice explanations for the latest in technology)
Videos Explaining New Technologies to Teachers: (focus is on applications and learning how to use) http://learnitinfive.com
Free Video Lectures is a library of more than 18,000 free educational videos of over 700 courses from the U.S.'s top Universities and a few Universities all voer the world: the videos can be searched by University or subject. http://freevideolectures.com
GOOGLE TOOLS AND TUTORIALS:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/p/google-tools-tutorials.html
SEARCH FOR FREE ONLINE E BOOKS at AvaxHome eBooks Search
FREE DIRECTORY OF E-BOOKS IN ALL AREAS: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
FREE MATHEMATICS E-BOOKS: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php
FREE SCIENCE E-BOOKS: http://sciencebooksonline.info/
Google Custom Search: Undergraduate Research Engine <http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018242335511370675646%3Afavv6aufpec> Search engine details: College freshmen, sophomores, and community college students: find authoritative sources appropriate for college-level work.searches sites including: openjurist.org, www.adcouncil.org, www.globalization101.org, www.rand.org, usa.gov
FIVE REAL TIME SEARCH ENGINES: www.bit.ly/bCQPRO
A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF SEARCH ENGINES (Courtesy of the Knowbodies Web Site and IRCD Oslo, Petter Naess): http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/ (an extremely useful list, especially for teachers and researchers.)
"Search Engines 2" offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign search engines arranged by category. Thanks to the always fascinating and incredibly useful web site "Interesting Pile" for alerting me to this site: http://www.search-engines-2.com/
2011 Set Search - A Search Engine for Students 2010
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students).
Sweet Search can be used by visiting the site directly or you can embed Sweet Search widgets into your blog or website.
Applications for Education: If you're concerned about your students stumbling onto sites that aren't reliable, try having them use Sweet Search. You could accomplish the same thing by creating a Google Custom Search Engine, but Sweet Search has already done essentially the same thing for you. Put one of the Sweet Search widgetsinto your classroom blog or school website so that students can search reliable sites within a familiar context.
Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:
How Web Search WorksLesson Plans for Teaching Web Search StrategiesHow to Create a Custom Search Engine
EdocZA is a brand new (July 2010) documentsearch engine that searches for PDF, PPT, Word .doc files, etc http://www.edocza.com/ A very valuable new Search Engine! Search for locating Powerpoints, Word Documents, etc. For example, in the Search Window provided, type "DIGITAL LIBRARIES 2010" and in the drop down menu, select Powerpoints and then click the SEARCH button; you will find many valuable powerpoints on Digital Libraries.
Other valuable and highly specific search engines to locate Powerpoint presentations are:
http://www.slideshare.net and http://www.slidefinder.net and http://www.findpowerpoint.com
CITATION SEARCHING FOR GOOGLE SCHOLAR: Citation searching in Google Scholar
(courtesy of the KNOWBODIES WEB SITE)
Oslo IRCD Petter Naess says: "During library school I would spend every idle moment in the library with Eugene Garfield's enormous ISI citation indexes (especially the Arts & Humanities Citation Index), seeing how other people had responded to articles I was currently reading or had recently read.
"Now Google Scholar has enabled citation searching; a search for Nicholson Baker's 1994 New Yorker article Discards, for example, reveals that 53 sources have subsequently cited it (most of them disparagingly, I bet, and unfairly so). Those 53 sources are listed in descending order of their own "Cited by" frequency, with The social life of information by JS Brown and P Duguid at the top of the list, with 2815 citations. To see who in turn cited Brown and Duguid's book, just click on the "Cited by" link, and off you go. This is a fascinating new feature at Google Scholar, and you should set aside some time for it."
GOOGLE EARTH SKILLS QUIZ AND TUTORIALS: http://www.bit.ly/9UtowH
GOOGLE EARTH HOW TO USE:Google Earth help page.
I discovered Google Earth: Learn, Become an Explorer. Become an Explorer is a nine part series of tutorials, directions, and quizzes regarding Google Earth skills.The series takes users from the basics of navigation through advanced features of Google Earth. Perhaps the best way to describe Google Earth: Learn, Become an Explorer is as a guided scavenger hunt. Google Earth: Learn, Become an Explorercould be a great aid in teaching students how to navigate all of the great things available in Google Earth.
Here are some related items that may be of interest:
Google Earth Across the CurriculumFree 33 Page Guide - Google for TeachersUsing Maps in an Elementary School Math Lesson
LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.llrx.com/features/basiclegalresearchinternet.htm
How to zip and unzip a file online
Here's a useful too. . PDF to Word is simple tool that extracts the text of your PDF documents and converts it to your choice of a Word document or rich text file (RTF). To use it, simply upload your chosen PDF, choose Word or RTF conversion, and enter your email address (don't forget to opt-out of marketing emails, unless you like spam). PDF to Word will email you when your file is ready for download. The reason I needed PDF to Wordtoday was that I had some PDFs of quizzes and activities that I had created and saved as PDFs before I knew the joys of Google Docs. PDF to Word made it possible for me to edit those quizzes and activities again.
FUTURES THINKING FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS: HIGHER EDUCATION IN 2025.
Association of College & Research Libraries. David J. Staley and Kara L. Malen. June 2010.
"For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate action now. This document presents 26 possible scenarios based on an implications assessment of current trends, which may have an impact on all types of academic and research libraries over the next 15 years. The scenarios represent themes relating to academic culture, demographics, distance education, funding, globalization, infrastructure/facilities, libraries, political climate, publishing industry, societal values, students/learning, and technology." http://bit.ly/8YsxsI [PDF format, 33 pages]
A Biography of America – a video instructional series produced by WBGH Boston in cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration, 2010 http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html (great for introducing students and Study USA participants to the U.S.; can be used along with the EJ SEE YOU IN THE USA.via www.america.gov)
Your Next Read is a neat little site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Here's how it works; type in the title of a book you like or author you like and Your Next Read will provide you with a web of books that might also enjoy. Click on any of the books appearing the web to create another new web: http://www.yournextread.com/us/ (Thanks to the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville for recommending this site.) Another similar web site is: http://www.bookbrowse.com/read-alikes/ and this one:
Have you ever read a book but you can't remember the title or the author but you'd like to go back and read it again? Check this resource to help you figure out that book...WHAT WAS THAT BOOK? http://community.livejournal.com/whatwasthatbook (Again, I am grateful to the University of Arkansas Libraries for this resource.)
WikiPREMED is a free online course designed to help students study for the MCAT. http://www.wikipremed.com The site offers a large gallery of images and drawings for learning concepts in Chemistry, Organic Chemistry. Physics and Biology.
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last updated FEBRUARY 2012: I have a committment to continually update this wiki with brand new resources every month; please also consult http://irocaf.tumblr.com for additional resources.
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BIOGRAPHY: Stephen Perry is an IRO with the U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT; for the past 15 years, he has been assigned to a variety of Foreign Service Postings overseas. He has provided training and seminars to over 600 insitutions all over the world in his Foreign Service career. Before joining the State Department, he was a University Professor in the U.S. for 23 years at a University in the U.S.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Profound thanks to the Free Technology for Teachers website for many of the sites listed above: I am especially grateful to Richard Byrne for his curiosity, his willingness to share his discoveries, and his most amazing website.
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