I was a little disappointed in this workshop because I was hoping to learn about "new" applications, and it was a pretty basic class. In fact, I have taught the applications to other specialists and teachers in my school district. The apps included google docs, forms, presentation, google maps, and google earth.
Tiny URL: The instructor did share the site tinyurl.com. This is where you go when you want to shorten the length of a "long" URL address that you would like to post online.
Twoogle: Bonnie, a friend who was in the same workshop, did share with me a site called twoogle. This app allows you to search twitter and google simultaneously when you type a topic in the search box. This is very cool.
Twofind: When I was visiting the twoogle site, Browsys, maker of twoogle, suggested to look also at Twofind. This app allows you to search Google and Bing simultaneously when doing an internet search. Bing is a new search engine that has been developed by Microsoft. Amazingly, the really cool thing about Twofind is you can choose between two search engines to run simultaneously. (Google/Bing), (Google/Yahoo), (Google/Twitter), (Bing/Yahoo), (Bing/Twitter), and for videos (Google/Bing) in a drop down box.
I did learn a few new tricks to add to my teaching bag today.
NECC is a great place to network and share!!!!!!!
“The technology itself is not transformative.
It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.” - Tanya Byron
It’s the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.” - Tanya Byron
2 comments:
Nice job on your blog here, PJ. Reflecting on learning is one of my favorite things I like about mine because in reflecting, I'm also able to share with others.
In discussing your post here, I'd say that tinyurl is a very helpful tool. However, as this kind of tool has evolved, I've found tr.im and is.gd to be a little better than the original tinyurl. Both create shorter urls and tr.im allows you to create custom suffixes.
Furthermore, one of the best ways to use any of these url shorteners is through a Firefox plugin. If you're interested, the plugin for is.gd can be found here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7369
Thanks so much for your comment. I have actually installed the is.gd plugin. I appreciate your suggesgtions and thanks for taking the time to care. :)
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