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A Google a Day: Efficient searching.

There is a great website called, helpfully, agoogleaday.com  You will be asked for your Google+ log in but even if you don’t have one, you can still play the basic game.  Each day there is a new question and you are timed to see how fast you can get the right answer using Google. If  Full Article…

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Genuine travelers

Overview This activity is planned to engage students between 6-8 years old from two distant groups of schools (or the same country or from different countries and regions). Basically, it consists in sending for the partner school (by mail) a doll traveler, representative of each class, simulating the journey of a student from one class  Full Article…

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Image sharing

LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this post you will be able to: Describe what image hosting and sharing applications are. Say why they are necessary. 
Explain how they work. 
Search for and use images from an image-hosting site. Upload images to an image hosting site WHAT THEY ARE Image sharing site is a generic  Full Article…

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More efficient searching using 3 x 3 Links

Dan Roberts shared the way he uses 3x3Links –  a handy online tool that allows you to set up your own shareable internet start page containing whatever websites you choose. All you need is a Google account to automatically sign in. One of the tricky things about asking students to research topics on the internet is that many  Full Article…

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