Week 6 Thing 13

Week 5 - Thing 12 Google Advanced & Custom Searches

Definitely worth checking out Google advanced and custom searches.   I especially like the file type search.  As a teacher, I can search for things like power point presentations that I might use on a particular topic.  I can request a specific reading level for my students. 

Another great capability is to search for sites that are like a site that i like.

I can also look for photos that are in public domain.

Great tool...looking forward to showing it to our students!!

Here is a fun techno-tip!

You can use  http://www.tinyurl.com/
to create a very short url from a very long url.....nicer to use in emails and with students.  I did this one...

http://utwente.academia.edu/NienkeMoolenaar/Papers/313201/Teaming_up_Linking_Collaboration_Networks_Collective_Efficacy_and_Student_Achievement

and turned it into
http://tinyurl.com/3mrnclm

How cool is that!

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