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From the site: "Help your students become better searchers Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training."

For more info, view the link below: http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/01/can-google-help-students-master-art-online-search

Date: Thursday - April 04, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM Location: The Hewitt School Speaker: Jenny Kirsch   The Hewitt School 45 E 75th Street New York, NY 10021 Grades 4-12 With just a few great tools, teachers can easily provide students with a broader, more vivid learning experience. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Google Chrome, featuring specific Chrome Extensions geared to helping teachers become more efficient in their daily tasks. The morning will be devoted to exploring filters for Google and YouTube searches, and learning how to build custom Google search engines. In the afternoon you will hear from teachers and students who are using concrete applications of Google Apps for Education in their classrooms. The end of the day will be reserved for experimentation with your newly acquired knowledge of Google Apps, so be sure to come with a laptop* and a few curriculum ideas you'd like to enhance!

From Infotopia: "Infotopia is an academic search engine accessing only trusted websites previously selected by librarians, teachers, and library and educational consortia. Infotopia is recommended for students, teachers, and especially, homeschoolers. Infotopia was created by, and is maintained by, Dr. Michael Bell, former chair, Texas Assocition of School Librarians, and Carole Bell, former middle school librarian and director of libraries."

From iPad Apps for School: "Marble Math is a fun mathematics game for kids to play on their iPads. The game has students practice basic multiplication problems through a maze layout. Students are given multiplication problems to solve by rolling their marbles through mazes that contain the correct answers. Students have to avoid the incorrect answers while moving their marbles toward the correct answers. Some of the mazes contain additional obstacles to avoid while searching for the correct answer. Students earn points for each maze they solve. When they reach 2,000 points (ten-fifteen correctly solved mazes) students earn a new marble."

iPad Apps for School review & additional info: http://ipadapps4school.com/2013/01/07/marble-math-offers-a-fun-way-to-practice-math-on-ipads/