Jeff Utecht is an educator who publishes two blogs: U Tech Tips and The Thinking Stick. Jeff created general tutorials on the use of flickr and del.icio.us for the educational community. These tutorials are available from his blogs under “screencasts.” He also posted the tutorials on YouTube: Using flickrUsing del.icio.us The segments were created in [...]
Google Labs is brewing up a number of new tools for educators and learners. Included among them is Accessible Search, web searching for the visually impaired. Accessible Search identifies and prioritizes search results based on their usability by users who are blind or have other visual impairments. Users can conduct searches in a variety of [...]
And speaking of social networking, the Jewish Week published an article by jcampus.com in its January 2007 education section on how college students and Hillels are using Facebook to connect. The article, “Creating a Facebook Community: Networking site changing the face of Jewish campus life,” can be found on the Jewish Week website. Social networking [...]
By now, most web surfers are familiar with bookmarking favorite websites. Bookmarking allows users to save shortcuts to their favorite websites locally on their computer and accessing them from their web browser. This traditional form of bookmarking is useful but limited – users are unable to access their favorites from other computers. Google and Yahoo, [...]
There are a number of ways to use Flickr in educational settings, as discussed previously. Here is a short tutorial to show some features. Go to the Flickr home page and try this out: in the search area, type the word “synagogue” and hit Go. This will call up photographs collected on Flickr that are [...]
Flickr is a free image management and organization tool. Most people use it to upload and share their photographs, but other images like digital art, clip art, and primary documents can be uploaded as well. These images can be grouped into online albums (“sets”) and slide shows, and shared publicly or with a select guest [...]
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