Google

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

In the 1870s, two inventors
Elisha Gray and Alexander
Graham Bell both
keyword also key word (
independently designed
) n. A word that serves
devices that could transmit
as a key to a code or
speech electrically (the
cipher. A significant or
telephone). Both men rushed
descriptive word.
their respective designs to the
(www.answers.com )
patent office within hours of
Is a word that is
each other, Alexander Graham
associated with a site or
Bell patented his telephone
contents of a site.
first. Elisha Gray and Alexander
Keywords are used to
Graham Bell entered into a
categorize and search
famous legal battle over the
for specific web sites.
invention of the
(http://www.mantis.biz/
telephone, which Bell won.
glossary/#k )

Keywords and Hits
• Telephone
• Telephone invent
• Telephone invent
alexander graham bell
• Telephone invent
alexander graham bell
telegraph
Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one
keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, record
and then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits!

• Do you believe what
you see and what you
hear?
• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0r
A&eurl
• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=hibyAJOSW
8U&eurl
Ideas adapted from
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-
believe-everything-you-see-online/

All about Explorers
• Go to
http://allaboutexplor
ers.com/webquest/
• And click on the
name of an Explorer
• Complete the tasks
• What did you find out
• Put a comment on
your wiki page
Ideas adapted from
http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-
believe-everything-you-see-online/

Use Ctrl – F
(- F for Mac)
Type in one of
the
keywords, press
Enter on
Keyboard
First instance of
the word will be
highlighted

Search Engines
Try these Search Engines with your keywords
http://www.sortfix.com/index.aspx
http://clusty.com/

Finding and Saving pictures
Finding Pictures
•Go to Google
•Click on the images link type
in the name of the images you
want to find and click Search Images.
•Click on the thumbnail image and then click on the
See full size image when it appears in the next
screen
•Right click on the image and select either Copy
image if you are copying straight onto a
document or Save image as (if you want to
save to a different location)
Don’t forget to acknowledge where you got the image from.

Upload PowerPoints to Slideshare
• Upload PowerPoints
to Slideshare
• These can be inserted
into wikis and blogs
• http://jacquiscourses.blogs
pot.com/2008/07/upload-
powerpoints-to-
slideshare.html

Kerpoof Create Comics
http://www.kerpoof.com/

• Create comics with
makebeliesfcomix characters, panel prompts
and talk balloons
MakebeliefsComix. Make 2,
3 or 4 page comics. You
can't save or download the
comics but you can Email or
print (or take a screen
capture and paste into
Word or PowerPoint).
• If you are taking a screen
capture for showing in a
PowerPoint then make sure
that you only do a 2 page
comic at a time, that way
you will get a better image
when you make it bigger on
the screen.

Mapwing: create a virtual tour from photos with a
map background
http://www.mapwing.com/

Mixbook: Online books
http://www.mixbook.com/
Mixbook example

Dipity Example
Dipity:
interactive
timelines
http://www.
dipity.com