Entries from August 2009

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Creating an Online Survey

Yesterday I came across an educational  wiki with an online survey that was easy to take and very informative.   Google Doc Forms, a flexible form and survey development interface with built-in reportring, was used to create the survey.  
I gave it a try and created a short survey.   I was pleased with the simplicity and the fact that [...]

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Search historic photos by subject or decade

 
 
 
 

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.  Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Search tip – Add “source:life” to any Google image search and search on the LIFE photo archive.  For example: computer source:life

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

So Much Information and Not Enough Time

Today I happened upon a radio talk show  about technology that was very informative.  The host of the show is Kim Komando and she also has a website.   She was talking about the wealth of information on the web and the lack of time at a particular moment to read everything that you would [...]