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Saturday, 19 November 2011
Find texts for use in class with Google
Just put them in to Google! You can fine-tune the results by using the advanced search "reading level" filter and by placing words in quotes (Google has stopped using the plus sign in searches, you can still prefix words with the minus sign).
This technique is similar to way some people use Google to find recipes by entering a list of ingredients. Google has recently made this simpler offering a special page Google Recipes which makes the process even easier.
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar
- New vocab/phrases/clips/pieces of info each day
- Motivational messages and of course...
- Reminders (e.g. to help stay on track with a study plan)
The only drawback to this method that I know of is that the emails arrive formatted as a reminder. It still makes for a useful technique in my opinion.
Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar
Do you have anything to add? If so please comment below!
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Audio Feedback via email with Google
This could be a useful tool to send or receive homework or task based activities or it could be used for a partial class recording etc. For more ideas see how people are using the audio recording service vocaroo.com
For more control you could send the voicemail to your own email address and forward it (perhaps using a different "from" address). Gtalk also works with Google Apps.
Gtalk is only available for Windows at the time of writing. Although most features are now available in Gmail via a web browser the "Send Voicemail" feature isn't!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Improve searches and English with Google's daily trivia game
This is not only a great task-based activity (or webquest) but a good way to teach students how to get the best out of Google and indeed other search engines.
Official Google Blog: A trivia game where using Google is allowed
For more Google based games try this page.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Translating a PDF documents with Google
You can of course copy and paste the text from the Google Docs Viewer into Google Translate by going to View > Plain HTML and selecting the text to translate. However the best way is pasting the PDF's URL into Google Translate's translation area (where you normally type the words to translate).
Note: the original PDF must have selectable text i.e. it must not be made-up of image files. If you have a small document of this type (e.g. one produced from a scanner) you could try upload it to Google Docs where you can request that Google tries to "read" it with OCR. See this page for more details of Google's OCR scanning limitations.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Quick translations in Google Chrome
Get one click access to Google Translate using the free Chrome extension Mini Translate. Here’s how the author describes the extension:
Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text, directly in your popup. Place or copy some text in your pop-up and hit the translate button. Press the swap button to swap the languages.
Get it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apcoaebncenbkhggdfcenkhbohpcepih
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Force google.com to use English
If you go to google.com and you are not in the USA you will usually be redirected to a localised page e.g. google.es in the local language.
That's fine but for English learners its better to search in English via the English interface. Doing this will not only improve the search results (or at least return more in English) but the search suggestions (the text that appears as you type) will appear in English too.
Just look for the English link at the bottom of the page or go to google.com/ncr or www.google.co.uk/