Project #15 Search Engines

Eight Search Engines:

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge search engine.   You can find historical information, unit conversions, view and create charts, website data, statistics finances, social networks, and work out mathematical problems. This site is great for tutoring.   My students can plug in equations in the search bar and ensure a final result. 

Freecycle  is great on saving the environment.  Freecycle can be found in your local neighborhood. Freecycle offers tangible goods to prevent them from going into our landfills. People can offer and obtain items for FREE! This site can teach my students the uses of reuse, recycle, and reduce in science, math, and many projects around the classroom.  This encourages students to save materials and promote to enables a cleaner environment. There's nothing like a bargain, when it can be used to good purposes.

Thinking about traveling? How about you consider Kayak for booking vacations, hotels, flights, and car rentals at low fares.  Kayak compares rates on over a hundred sites in one stop. Students can compare and contrast between data to draw conclusions. I like using Kayak because it saves time looking for other competitors' prices.
 

 iCurio is a SAFE and effective  search engine for parents and students.  Icurio promotes comprehensive digital learning.  Icurio is a digital curriculum that can be modified on the individuals learning abilities. I can use  icurio to be interactive with the students, to enrich, remediate, and enhance their learning.   I can personalize my lessons to assist student's personal needs in the classroom.  I can use my guided practice books along with Common Core to create different lesson plans. Since time and flexibility is limited as a teacher I can use this interactive tool to manage my classroom achievements. Every student can learn with "videos, text, and learning games." My students will emphasize and be self motivated in learning with collaboration and sharpen critical thinking skills.

Prezi is a search engine which students can search interactive presentations on any topic to further their knowledge base or gain a better understanding.  It allows students to create and display two different ideas and collaborate and share with an audience.  This is ideal for students telling a story or make comparison to a play they saw on television.  Students using Prezi can express ideas as visual metaphors.  The presentation use animation, import Powerpoint slides, add text, edit mode, and present mode.  My students can create a story, which they can allow information to be more compelling and visual.  Students can elaborate and brain storm to identify components of the story.  Prezi is another way saying I'm an artist or author.  I like how Prezi will motivate my readers to write and perform great works of writing.

                                                                    

Skype is a search engine that students and educators can search for other student and educators in order to communicate all across the globe. Skype enhances real live communication among people at one time.  Skype can be used to  interview with other student in different countries.  Skype is an online way to connect distance learning with students, parents, involving communities to make connections.  Students can adapt to collaborative projects through streamlining the internet. I can let students explore and take and  adventure into cultures.  Students can make inferences on climates, population, history, gather information all through Skype. Skype is a great way to search for connections.

Twitter is a search engine that  people can communicate sending short messages, instantly online.  Teachers use twitter as as way to post assignments, create hash tags, news feeds, role play, take live field trips, and ask questions.  Students can receive a quick response from their teacher.  Teachers can also get feedback from other colleagues and connect parents on what's happening in their classroom.  Twitter can express ideas and blogs to communicate  daily trends everywhere. I found twitter very interactive using videos, posting puzzles and games for children. 

BING is a resourceful search engine to  help translating words. I use bing very frequently to search for information without spending a lot of time.  Bing search box finds the information I want to search by word specific. Bing has reliable information I can get a map ,food, news, specific images, and finds the answers you want to know.