Here's a side by side comparison of Bing Vs Google results on the term: Information Fluency
21cif.com ( formerly 21cif.imsa.edu ) has been online for 10+ years and dominates the Google Search results. Nothing in the top ten for Bing? Google ranks our old url #1 and our new url #4. Give this a try for your self with the same terms? I'll bet you get radically different results from Google than I do. Since I've worked on the 21cif project for nearly 8 years, I know the materials well. Also Google has adapted to my search habits and provides me with more links relevant to my interest. On the Google page I'm given a link to my search-wiki results: http://tinyurl.com/21cif-search-wiki
This proves the point 21cif has been making for a decade: USE MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES! The more sources of information you tap, the better your chances of getting a less filtered view of what's available on the world wide web
"4.) If you have folders that hold documents and projects that you use every year and you need to copy the entire folder you can do that by using this script. Just authorize the script and add the alphanumeric information from the URL and rename your new folder. Works like a charm!"
Shambles Newsletter May 2011 .. now online
and it lives at
http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/May2011
or use the short url http://bit.ly/kCxOmP
It only comes out three time a year ... designed specifically for k-12 educators
The Content in this issue includes
- launch of ShamblesPad (built on EtherPad)
- Facebook instant OpenSIM VW
- IB in LinkedIn
- CPD courses and conferences
- iPad School Timetable App written by a student
- SAGE: Speakers, Authors, Guests, Experts
- PLANA Australia New Zealand CPD Portal
- #21CLHK #learn21cn #TechEx2011 #barcampcm4 #rscon3
- iDevices Apps #mlearning #Apps #edapp
- The Relationship Manifesto
- Digitise the Text Book Industry
- The TED-Ed Brain Trust
- Generation Y: Who, What, How
- Flipped Classroom
I'd appreciate your help to spread the word by forwarding this email to education colleagues or by Tweeting or through Social networks.
It might be more convenient to use the url
http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/
which has a sign-up form and also contains archives back to 2002.
The next edition out in November
(enjoy the summer hols)
Many thanks
Chris
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Forms: Add pages and allow navigation to a specific page within a
form
Forms improvements
They’ve added a new question type (grid), support for right-to-left languages in
forms, and a new color scheme for the forms summary. Also, you can now
pre-populate form fields with URL parameters, and if you use Google Apps, you
can create forms which require sign-in to access
Will this model work for publishers? Can we obtain the rights to distribute electronically some chapters of textbooks and only pay for the portions we use? An interesting question..
With California in dire straits, the governor hopes free textbooks could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
So how are we going to pay the people who do the work of creating these "free" textbooks? If we could agree on content, perhaps school districts could work together and write the books and make them available through a creative commons license.