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Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search.

Witty Comics is a cool website. It allows its users to create two characters dialogues. This is a great learning tool for students. They love cartoons and comics and are much more inclined to learn via dialogues and interactive  play roles. Teachers can use Witty Comics to create dialogues underlining the target structures they want to teach  and let students act them out. Students can on their part use Witty Comics to create thier own  dialogues and rehearse them in front of their peers. Witty Comics is a good tool to foster students communicative skills and enhance their creative powers. Witty Comics is free of charge and is very easy to use. It has a simple platform that any one can handle , the only thing you need to do is to register with them and start making comics straight away. Pre-drawn background scenes and characters are already provided and students will only select the ones they want to feature in their comics.   You might also like: 8 Reasons Why you should Create A Blog for your Class 10 Must Have Resources to Teach about Copyright and Fair Use Snip.ly :Snip and Share Your Favorite Parts of Webpages A Great List of 70+ iPad Apps for Teachers and Students LinkWithin   

Design in 3D what you've always dreamed of, but never thought possible. Until now. Join the Tinkercad community and learn how to create your first real things in just a few minutes.

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard to organizeand share the things you love.It is invite only at present so send them an email and get starting.

Ways in which to use Google maps...I didn't know you can text them for directions: If you can still eke out an SMS message, you can text GOOGLE with a message formatted as "Directions A to B," substituting a town, ZIP code, or street address for A and B.

"Qwiki Knows Millions of Things" QUICK SEARCH

TODOFeed helps you share your ideas with the people you know.Things are done faster when shared with others. ;-) 1. CREATE a planning (group studies, project, events etc...) 2. ADD tasks to the planning 3. SHARE with friends, and let them pick a task

Automatoon is a great web application. It allows its users to easily create animations. These animations can be reused anywhere on the web. I know the first thing that you would think about now is how hard it is to create an animated clip , but do not worry no one of us is a technology wizard yet we can make simple animations to share with our students using Automatoon. No sign up required and u can export your creations.

How Sharing Works Now Your controls have moved so now they're right next to each thing you share.

worth checking out. Most things web 2.0 for teachers.

"Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started."

This image editor does only one thing, but does it well. It adds speech and thinking bubbles to photos and images. Really easily and the results look great. Good for making comic strips with your class

An online portfolio allows you to compile what makes you employable - it should include things like your resume, cover letter, references, certifications, transcripts and any examples of your work (including writing samples, press clips, artwork or lesson plans). Plus, you should include basic contact information, such as a phone number and email, and more modern information, like a Twitter handle, LinkedIn profile, or Facebook URL. Put all of this into one online package that's easy to browse and voilà - you have an online portfolio!

" Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."

Similar to Jing by the looks of things

Since I haven't invested the time needed to really learn Google+, I was excited to run across this Google+ cheatsheet by Technostreak. I plan to keep it handy for awhile and test out some of these tips.

A slideshow creator that allows users to embed a video and photo presentation on your site, complete with links to web resources

" is a new Animoto-like service that lets you upload several short videos and it then somehow "recognizes" the most important parts and turns it into a magically-produced one minute video. It's still invitation-only, but I got one seconds after I requested one."