Google Timeline Search Comes To An End

A while ago now, 4 years to be precise, I wrote a short post on Google Timeline Search and how it could be used in the classroom along with my thoughts. I was excited about the ability to see key/interesting events of a given period on a timeline and could …

Educational Widgets for Google Docs

I’ve just finished reading an article on the Google Docs blog : Spotlight on Developers: Educational Spreadsheet Gadgets it highlighted a few gadgets that you can now use within Google Docs to create resources that would be helpful in the classroom. They had links to making flashcards, creating an interactive …

Google’s April Fool 2009

In Australia Google’s annual April fool was Aussie Rules related. Announcing the release at the weekend of a ball (in true beat style) that would gather data and feed back to the user about their kicks… all while plotting it on Google Maps! Taken from the Google Site: Introducing the …

Timeline Searching in Google

I was looking at the experimental searches available in Google and got to thinking about using the timeline one for History. You can search for a concept, or anything else and the results will be displayed on – yes – a timeline. http://www.google.com/views?q=victorian+england+view:timeline&esrch=RefinementBarTopViewTabs To the left is the search I …

Teachers Helpsite From Google

In this official google blog have announced that they are going to put more effort into helping teachers. They are created a page which gathers together all of their tools that they think are going to be useful to us. This includes the obvious such as Google Earth and basic …