Tuesday, April 20, 2010

DuckDuckGo - A Simplified Search Engine




http://duckduckgo.com/

Duck Duck Go is a creative and simple to use search engine. When you enter a search term that can have multiple meanings, Duck Duck Go alerts you to that and asks you what you really want to search for. For example, if you enter the search term "titan," Duck Duck Go will tell you that "titan" could mean different things such as:





Duck Duck Go also provides brief information summaries when you search for topics. This is handy if you're not really looking for a lot of information about a topic, but are just in need of a quick synopsis of a topic.
And for real fun, click the I'm feeling Ducky icon

to get a random selection choice of the word you entered.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Freeology - Free Printables for Teachers


Freeology is a site that provides dozens of printable forms teachers. Freeology offers dozens of free graphic organizer forms, calendars, awards forms, and coloring pages. Teachers can also take advantage of Freeology's free math worksheet creator and free wordsearch generator. All of the forms on Freeology can be downloaded as PDFs.