New TED-Ed Video: “The secret language of trees”
I’m adding this new TED-Ed lesson and video to The Best Sites To Learn About...
Read MoreI’m adding this new TED-Ed lesson and video to The Best Sites To Learn About...
Read MoreKidy is a new search engine for children. I experimented with it for a little bit, including using the “go to” search engine topic I always use on these kinds of search engines: “gladiator.” I was...
Read MoreI have previously posted about Richard Byrne’s fabulous search engine for video sites other than YouTube (see If You Don’t Have Teacher Access To YouTube At Your School, Then This Search Engine is a “Must”). He’s...
Read MoreLeap.it is a new search engine that portrays search results in a visually attractive way (see the above image and compare it to the image below from Google searching the same topic: Christopher Columbus). I don’t really...
Read MoreI’ve just updated The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners. Additional suggestions are welcome….
Read MoreRichard Byrne has created a nice list of 47 Alternatives to YouTube. Yes, it’s nice and useful. However, the killer part of what he’s done is create a custom search engine for those 47 sites. If you don’t have...
Read MoreQwant is a search engine that offers a unique useful feature: With a click of your mouse, it lets you save, tag, and organize sites into public or private lists. This can be useful for students who are researching information on...
Read MoreGoogle has unveiled a new interactive site to explain to the novice and to others how search works. You can read a more detailed explanation at TechCrunch. I’m adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL...
Read MoreMobento is a new site that lets you search for words spoken in videos. For now, they have indexed ones from Khan, TED and Stanford, and plan a lot more. It’s pretty straightforward — you type a word into the...
Read MoreQwiki has been on a number of my “The Best…” lists — it’s sort of a multimedia search engine that provides audio support for text, and it’s very engaging. I was “bummed-out” last month when I...
Read MoreToday, Google announced a new feature they’re calling “Knowledge Graph.” I’m still having a little bit of a hard time understanding why it’s such a big deal. Basically, it seems that if you search...
Read MoreI’ve just revised and updated The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners. As always, feedback is welcome.
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