Create a Library of Google Scholar Search Results

As I mentioned last month in my post about creating Google Scholar alerts , Google Scholar is one of the research tools that high school stu...

How to Create Your Own Custom Search Engine

I've posted directions for creating your own Google Custom Search Engine in the past. Since the last time I published those directions G...

Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies

Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the pi...

Websites Like - Find Related Sites and Tools

If you have ever found a website that you really like and wished that there were more like, Websites Like is a website you should try. Webs...

Doodle Buzz is an Interesting Way to Explore News

Doodle Buzz is an interesting way to look at the news. To find news stories enter a term in the search box, click go, then drag your cursor...

Snapify - A Tool to Quickly Find Definitions and Related Websites

Snapify is a handy little Chrome extension that I've shown to live audiences twice in the last two days. Both times I showed how it wor...

Helping Former Students Through Twitter and instaGrok

Last evening I was Tweeting with a couple of my former students about how their spring semester is going. One of them mentioned that she had...

Context Menu Search - Right-Click to Search in Chrome

Context Menu Search is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to highlight words on a webpage then right-click to search for those words...

Using Google Scholar for Education

Google Scholar is a great search tool that too often is overlooked by teachers and students. In the 45 minute video below, Google Search E...

Try the New Wiki Summarizer Features

Last year I discovered Wiki Summarizer and almost immediately started sharing it in many of my presentations.  Wiki Summarizer  is a site t...

Search for Images by Drawing an Image

For a while now we have been able to perform Google Image searches by uploading images from our computers. This morning, through Mashable ,...

Google Search Lesson Plans and Webinars

Give your students any kind of research assignment and for better or worse the first place they're likely to turn to is Google. As educa...

Snapify - Search the Web Without Leaving the Page You're Viewing

Snapify is a free Google Chrome extension that allows you to highlight a word or phrase on any webpage and quickly find more information ab...

10 Common Challenges We'll Face This Fall - Challenge #4: Helping Students Research and Organize

One of my most popular presentations, the one that I'm most frequently asked to give , is 10 Common Challenges Facing Educators . Whe...

Find Sites Like Your Favorites with Similar Site Search

We all have our favorite websites and web-based services that we refer people to. Sometimes our favorite sites don't provide quite what ...

Twurdy - A Web Search With a Readability Index

Last week I shared with you directions for refining Google search results by readability . I learned that little trick in Google Certified T...