Edubeacon

I’ve taken a moment from packing boxes in preparation for house selling to blog about this new search engine - Boolify.com as I’m sure any educator will see it’s value as an aid to online searching and understanding the process of Boolean Searching. Aimed specifically at junior and middle years students (P-8), I believe it would also very [...]

New York Times article of 31 October 2004 on the seemingly endless stream of innovations the people behind Google are producing. The Stock? Whatever. Google Keeps On Innovating. by James Fallows makes interesting reading. “GOOGLE PRINT is nearly a year old and still in beta. It lets users call up specific pages of current books [...]

The invincibility of Google is being increasingly called into question as more regular articles appear in the media questionning how much information researchers are depriving themselves of if they rely on this seach engine along to provide their answers. A Love/Hate Relationshipby Shirley Duglin Kennedy published in Information Today, Inc explores this issue. Worth a [...]