A cool new way to search Google! July 22, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in safe and savvy, search, technology.2 comments
Download Video: Posted by rbunn83815 at TeacherTube.com.
“The Visual Search Firefox Extension allows you to search visually in all of your favorite search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and countless others). Simply double-click on any word (or highlight any phrase) then plus and minus buttons will be displayed. You can press either button for the term to be added (or -added) to your current search and then it returns a new set of results based on your updated search string. This extension really does save you vast amounts of time and is a great usability increase. To get this extension go to: http://www.visual-search.net/”
Worth checking out for using Firefox (rather than IE) and of course the speed and ease of searching.
Note: This blog is a dual educator and classroom blog experiment. Cheers, Al
Test podcast using box.net July 20, 2007
Posted by Al Upton in Edublogs, Telling Our Stories, animation, connect, filtered sites, global, groups, learning, literacy, miniLegends, other countries, podcasts, safe and savvy, search, technology, video.add a comment
Why is Web 2 Important to Education? Al Upton 2 MB Nov, 2006
[this file has now been 'embedded' into this blog]
Stored on box.net – a free storage site http://www.box.net/
Upload your mp3 (sound file) – perhaps use audacity
To get the link, click the file in box.net and copy the url (address at the top of the player)
You can also paste in the public link
(IE visitors to your blog can link across to box.net to listen to recording/podcast)
http://www.box.net/shared/qd1kz42r6g
BUT this technique is likely to be blocked/filtered in SA government schools. This means you will need to upload and embed the files away from your site. It is possible for a site administrator to unblock sites at the local level but I do not promote this.
In the editor (when you write a post or a page) there is an icon with an ‘A’ on it. This is for embedding (copy and paste) the URL of different media files such as You Tube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm etc – not all are recognised but it’s worth a try – very quick, easy and powerful. NB You do this in the Visual editor (not Code) but will see code until you save the post or page.
