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What do you Love?
I regret that I ran across this article AFTER my students had completed their research projects for the year! However, I am putting the "What do you love" website on my delicious page as soon as I'm done with this post!!!
This article explained a great service from Google that I knew nothing about. With using this search space on Google, students can, "type in a search term and instantly get results grid-style from Google images, create an alert, find patents, look at trends, email someone about the topic, explore the search in 3d with SketchUp, find books, watch videos, translate into 57 languages, organize a debate, find blog posts, maps, call someone, start a discussion group, plan an event, view it in Google Earth, create a instant bookmark to the search, or make the search mobile." Wow! What I find so neat about this is that students can compare results from different streams, find out various search terms, etc., all in one place.
I also really like the time this can save me as a teacher. It can save me time when searching for a new unit, and I can also look at the "trends" on the search. Google also offers some things of which I was not even aware. For example, Google will help you set up and organize a debate with moderation. How great is that for a lot of topics in high school? I haven't played with it enough yet to know how reliable this is, but I plan to do so before next year!
"What do you Love" is a GREAT site offered by Google, proving once again that Google is one of the best resources for educators!
Wow... I love this! I never knew about "What do you love," but I now want to start using it! I love how it categorizes the search for you. I can see this being especially useful for students who are just starting to use search engines for researching. Thank you for sharing this great resource!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of this either and I am really interested exploring it more. At first glance I love it. I am soooooo adding this to my school website etc. as a resource tool. I do a project with my 6th grade students every year that starts with them choosing a music artist and then they sreach for information on the artist. Then we use different office programs to create differnt things based on thir music artist. I think this may help them with thier research for thier artists.
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