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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Leap.it - a whole new take on search. What are you looking to discover? Try it now!
Beth Dichter's insight:
A new search engine is now available. It is called Leap.it and as the image above shows, it is a more visual search engine than many. You can use the search engine as is, or you can create an account which allows you some additional privledges, including the ability to create a "perspective" where you can bring together a variety of sites in one location. When reviewing the Terms and Conditions it is clear that students under 13 may not use the app without permission from parents. For more information on this issue take the time to read the Terms and Conditions. 
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Are you looking for a scientific equation search engine? If so check out Symbolab, a search engine that is semantic. Richard Byrne states "rather than just searching the text of your query Symabolab attempts to interpret and search for the meaning of your query" and he suggests you think of "Symbolab as a cross between Google and Wolfram Alpha."
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"Got serious research to do, itching for a bit of gossip or just fancy a random browse? wordonthewire is aimed at providing the savvy web user with a multi-platform search tool, all neatly packed into one application.
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Good50 is a user-friendly search engine with slightly larger font size. It's for everyone including seniors, students, people with low vision, and laptop users.
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Slikk is the new search engine with revolutionary features that let you Find It Faster. Search and browse the web, pictures, news, videos, blogs and Twitter! Search various categories simultaneously and share search results!
I have been experimenting with Slikk for several months and it has quickly become one of my favorite search engines. Below are a few of the features. I urge you to take the time and try this tool out.
Lion View allows you to browse open website simultaneously. You click on "LionV" on the top right hand of the LionWindow and like magic, the websites you have on the screen all show at once. You may choose to maximise each. This is a great tool to compare and contrast websites that may have agendas or a bias.
Slikk also allows you to search and view various types of results simultaneously. "The MultiView feature allows you to display one type of search result on the left side of the screen and another on the right side. On either side, you can choose between web, image, news, video, blog or Twitter results. For example, you can have web results on the left side and images on the right side. Or news on the left and Twitter on the right. The choice is always yours!"
There are many other features to this search engine. Take the time to take it for a test drive!
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TinEye is a reverse image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.
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GoGooligans.com a simple, safe and kid oriented search engine. It has a pop-up accessible keyboard for “our friends with disabilities.” They also provide a version for older students.
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Kiddle - search engine for kids with illustrated results and safe search.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Check out this new search engine called Kiddle. It is a visual search engine designed for children. What makes it different? 1. Most search results provide a large thumbnail. This image will help children differentiate some results. 2. The font size. Kiddle uses a large size of Ariel, a font that helps with readability. 3. Sites are filtered and are family friendly. 4. Kiddle is privacy oriented. No data is collected and logs are deleted after 24 hours. If you work with young students, or have young children at home this search engine is worth checking out.
Janet McQueen's curator insight,
November 29, 2014 10:45 PM
A kid friendly search engine complete with pictures. This would be great for young learners and ELLs.
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"A new app for the iPad and Android devices uses a highly visual format to provide a different search experience for the tablet user. More than just a pretty interface, Izik—which debuted last month as the top reference app in iTunes—is based on Blekko, the search engine that boasts higher quality results based on human curation."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This search engine is designed for a tablet and provides some unique features. The visual format is based on categories so you can swipe horizontally to view additional entries, and or vertically to see more categories. Their website states "our goal is to have the practicality of the Web unfold at your fingertips in a fun and playful manner." To download the app (iPad or Android) or to check it out online check out their website at http://izik.com/.
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"Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts, so you don’t have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself."
Gooru's comment,
September 10, 2012 3:00 PM
Hey, Beth! Thanks for the scoop! We've been making a lot of changes to Gooru, we're in our Beta launch now and we really appreciate your support thus far. We've also created a brand new library page to help users browse all of our wonderful content! Check it out at www.goorulearning.org, and tell your friends!
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This is a new search engine that will be going into beta this month. According to their Facebook page "Scholrly aims to give its users, from the garage inventor to the tenured professor, a single stop for finding research connections and insights faster than ever before." It will also have a "people-centric emphasis. When you search with a keyword you not only get relevant citations but relevant people as well. The goal is to let users search for people and to figure out who is important within the subject context." The post provides additional information. You may also want to go to http://scholr.ly/ and sign up for a beta account.
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"...web search results for certain topics are just overloaded with "search engine dummy websites with little to no valuable content, many of which have utilized “search engine optimization” (SEO) tactics... That’s what a neat hack called MillionShort aims to help with. The website is a search engine that lets you remove the top million (or 100,000, or 10,000, or whatever) hits from the results list. It’s a lot like pruning a plant, or skimming the film off the top of a stew: MillionShort lets you remove the old or non-useful stuff from traditional web search to find new or interesting content." One of the features is that it lists the sites that is not showing you (as seen in the right column in the image).
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What is RTBot? RTBot is a Real-time information service, where you can enter a topic title and instantly get related digital contents from multiple sources (e.g. Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Books, Newspapers, Magazines) all at once. * Access the freshest information and multimedia content about almost any subject, person, place or event in one single place. One important note - RTBot provides content only for specific topics such as concepts, subjects, personalities, events, places, companies, products, etc., but not for broader, unspecific searches.
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Millions of students search the Web for learning daily, but finding good educational materials, making sense of the search results, understanding what's important...InstaGrok retrieves educational materials in multiple formats; identifies key concepts and terminology; helps visualize relationships between concepts; displays definitions of terminology; finds expert users on online forums and more...check it out at http://www.instagrok.com/
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Boolify provides learners with a manipulative mental model for Boolean Web Search construction. It can be used to teach and learn Boolean Web Search in a variety of settings.
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Check out this new search engine called Wonder. Wonder is a 'human-centric' search engine. People who are knowledgeable in the field recommend resources. In fact, if you have a special area you need researched you may enter a 'ticket' explaining what you are looking for and researchers will "email you back high quality resources ASAP."
The search engine is free to use, but you must create a log-in (three choices available).
Once you enter your search terms items will appear with a small visual and some text. You may choose to save any item (and like or share an item). You may also request additional information (see note above) and the list of contributors is viewable allowing you to filter results by reviewer.
There are so many websites that students find that are not the best. This search engine would be great for students still learning how to search, or as a way to potentially see if the sites they find are also listed by Wonder. Take some time to explore and consider sharing this with students (I would suggest high school, and possibly middle school).