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Search Multiple Search Engines at Once

ZUULA is a meta search engine which allows users to search multiple search engines with one click.

Enter a search term and then click on the tabs to view results from various search engines, like Bing, Google, Yahoo, Gigablast, Alexa…..

You can search the “Web”, “Images”, “News”, Tags” & “Blogs” with each having multiple sources to view results from.

Ideal for students when researching topics.

Tags: Bing, Google, Research, search engine

01.Feb.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Knowledge Adventure – Interactive Games

Knowledge Adventure has a wide range of interactive educational games for Kids aged 3 -12yrs, for Math, Spelling, Phonics, Reading, Science.

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/

Tags: Math, reading, Science, Spelling

31.Jan.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Search Engine for Students….

Sweet Search is a series of search engines specially for the education sector and aimed at teachers and students. Each website in SweetSearch has been evaluated vetted by research experts, as suitable for students.

SweetSearch4Me is our search engine for emerging learners.

SweetSearch2Day is where students Learn Something New Every Day.

SweetSearch for School Librarians for content that helps students use the Web effectively.

SweetSites for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.

SweetSearch Biographies for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.

SweetSearch Social Studies for our best social studies content.

There’s also a Ten Steps to Better Web Research guide to help with searching the web.

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Tags: Research, search engine

27.Jan.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Pollmo – Worlds easiest poll creator….. for FREE

Pollmo is the easiest way to create polls. No sign up or accounts needed.. although you will need a website, blog or wiki to embed the poll in.

Simply write your question, add the answer options and add to your website.

http://pollmo.com/

Tags: polling, quiz

26.Jan.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Digital Storytelling

Folding Story

Folding Story is a writing game where each writer is constrained to write one line of a story (120 words or less) and pass it on to another writer to add to it. Each user gets just three minutes to write a line.

http://foldingstory.com/

Ficly

Start your own story or jump into someone else’s with a word limit of 1,024 characters only. Also, you don’t need to follow the stories; you can insert events into the narrative as sort of a prequel.

http://ficly.com/

One Million Monkeys Typing

Here, each story has three possible paths. You can choose one out of the three or craft your own ‘snippet’. Snippets get comments and also get rated by bananas. You can also chat with your fellow monkeys using the online chat app.

http://www.1000000monkeys.com/

Tags: collaboration, Digital Storytelling, storytelling, writing

24.Jan.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)