Tuesday, August 19, 2008

13 Unusual Search Engines You Should Remember

Thanks to http://www.smashingapps.com/ for this:

  • Deligio is your search engine for software, shareware and freeware.
  • Searchme lets you see what you are searching for.
  • Yoozila is a powerful new search engine. It’s primary purpose is to provide you with relevant results and present them in a fresh web 2.0 beautiful manner.
  • PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files. You can find and download a tons of e-books.
  • Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images.
  • FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.
  • Tag Galaxy has beautiful 3D planet interface. This search engine is dedicated to search Flickr images in some interesting way.
  • With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle’s world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes.
  • At retrevo, you can find reviews of consumer electronics, product manuals, guides and deals.
  • Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms.
  • Sputtr.com is a Multi Search Engine that makes searching the Web quick and easy, because it has all the best searches on a single page. Give it a try!
  • Scour allows you to search socially and view results as rated by the Scour community.
  • Wikio is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs.

Video - the Powers of 10

This video is a great way to illustrate the Powers of 10.

Friday, August 15, 2008

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers | Smart Teaching

 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers | Smart Teaching

With the increasing use of technology in classrooms, it’s no wonder that teachers have a growing interest in using YouTube and other online media sharing sites to bring information into their classrooms. Here are 100 YouTube videos that can provide supplementary information for the class, give inspiration, help you keep control of class and even provide a few laughs here and there.

Friday, August 8, 2008