Google is amazing. I’m sure that comes as no shocker, but really, they are. As if a great search engine, YouTube, Google Docs and Gmail weren’t enough, Google continues to amaze. This past week, Google released its newest feature: Google World Wonders Project. Following the educational/world exploration vein they started with their Art Project, Google […]
Wednesdays on the Web
WotW: Listen and Learn (or at least laugh)
I have a long commute to work every morning and it gets boring. For the longest time, I listened to the morning radio show, then I tried going through my long lost CD collection. Of course, I also plugged in my iPod and went through all those songs too, but I found myself getting sick […]
WotW: The Next Generation of Search Engine
As a technology teacher, I’m always amused whenever I see students doing research. They type whatever they’re searching for into Google (for instance, Texas) and expect it to magically tell them everything they wanted to know about the topic. Instead, they’re greeted with a laundry list of websites, prioritized by Google’s indexing algorithm. Not sure […]
WotW: What’s Up With All This Cloud Business Anyway?
If you’ve watched any amount of TV lately, you’ve probably heard a buzzword attached to nearly every technology commercial: “the cloud.” This mystical, non-weather-related term is more than a fancy phrase though. It’s truthfully the future of how we use technology and is the great link between traditional computers and mobile devices. In short, the […]
WotW: Manage Your Social Networks with Rockmelt
In the beginning there was Facebook. And it was good. And then there was Twitter and Tumblr and StumbleUpon and Pinterest and Google+, and, and, and… There are a lot of social networks out there and chances are you belong to more than one. Unfortunately, there is a finite amount of time in the day […]