Tag Archives: google
21st Century Newspapers
Paper.li is an RSS aggregator that looks like a newspaper. This can make it very accessible and easy to setup and interact with. Continue reading
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Teaching with Google Images
A quick search of Google Images can quickly fill in gaps in students’ vocabulary and facilitate communication. Continue reading
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Google Labs
Google Labs is the part of Google where engineers share their pet projects that may someday be woven into the fabric of Google. Even if they never make it out of the Lab, many of these experiments are interesting and can offer students some interesting language practice. Continue reading
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Visual Thesaurus
Visual Thesaurus.com visually encodes information such as relationships between the words, definitions, and parts-of-speech. First three searches are free, which is usually enough. Continue reading
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Google Translate
New translation apps may someday make language learning obsolete. And someday might not be that far off. Continue reading
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Google Maps for New Student Orientation
After putting student-created videos on Google Maps I’ve been thinking about how a similar process could be used to provide an orientation to the institution and community for new international students. Some of the teachers at Ohio University are already … Continue reading
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Top 5 Technologies I Should Be Using
Google Wave, Zorap, Ning, Screenr, Prezi, and Sikuli. For me, this is what’s next. Continue reading
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Google Yourself
How can we be more Google-like in our work? Continue reading
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Top 5 Technologies You Should Already Be Using
Tech highlights for everyone from technophobes to technophiles. Continue reading
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