How industries are adapting to answer-driven search
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Topic: Educational technology
Tools and tips for making internal training videos
Explore must-have tools, practical tips and fresh approaches for making internal videos that captivate and educate.
Reddit expands its learning hub with new features, courses and certifications
The new resources aim to help advertisers better understand Reddit's audiences, unique targeting capabilities and ad formats.
The top five digital marketing courses in the U.S.
Even a savvy marketer needs to choose the perfect program to fit their needs
Google adds learning video rich results
These rich results show in English in all regions for academic learning content on desktop and mobile.
What’s your SEO learning style?
Find out the best way to get and retain an SEO education based on learning preferences and lifestyle.
Google adds practice problems and math solver structured data and Search Console reports
Online education businesses may want to leverage these new structured data types to get more exposure in Google Search results.
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Marketing Labs on-demand courses for advertisers
LinkedIn launched Marketing Labs video course to teach advertisers how to succeed on the platform.
Google confirms showing homework practice problems in search results
Google said this is currently an experiment but will share more details on how publishers can participate later.
Bing improves visual search, adds educational carousel, American Sign Language and NFL answers
Microsoft's search engine adds a robust image search feature and educational results just in time for the school year.
Google adds college search knowledge panel
Thinking of getting your college degree? Google aims to make the decision easier by tailoring the search results for college-related queries.
Google Santa Tracker is live, counting down the days until Christmas with holiday games & resources
This year's Google Santa Tracker comes with coding games, an elf filter in the Android app and daily updates delivered via an Advent-styled calendar.
Google coding-game doodle marks 50th anniversary of kids learning to code
The Google doodle team partnered with the Google Blockly team and MIT researchers to create "Coding with Carrots," its first-ever coding-game doodle.
New Google Earth delivers guided tours, 3D images & an ‘I’m feeling lucky’ feature
It's currently only available on Chrome and Android, but Google says its latest version of Google Earth will soon roll out on iOS and other browsers.
Bing’s latest search features include a look at the stars, molecule models & virtual Rubik’s Cube
Bing has rolled out new educational-themed search results aimed at helping students and teachers.
Bing improves its math skills with interactive times table, geometry calculator & more
Bing is continuing to build out its educational resources, adding a number of interactive answers for math-related searches.
Bing search for “periodic table” returns interactive periodic table directly in results
With Bing's latest educational resource, students have access to details for each of the elements right from the search result page.
Google Santa Tracker & Santa Village Go Live, Counting Down Days Until St. Nick Takes Flight
This year's Santa Village includes coding games and holiday traditions -- all available via desktop or the Santa Tracker Android App.
Bing Adds School Ratings To Search Results
Microsoft Bing has announced they’ve added a new feature to the school snapshot boxes on the right hand panel — the school’s rating. They’ve added school ratings, rankings and academic indicators directly in Bing Snapshot. Microsoft says this works for searching for schools from elementary to high school to higher education. Bing displays how they […]
“Bing For Schools” Becomes “Bing In The Classroom” & Makes Program Available To All Schools
Originally launched in August of last year as Bing for Schools, the new Bing in the Classroom program has moved out of its pilot phase and is now available to all US schools, grades K through 12. For participating schools, the free program offers ad-free and safe searches, daily lesson plans, as well as opportunities […]
Starting Today Bing For Schools Is Giving More Than 800,000 Students An Ad-Free Search Experience
Bing For Schools officially launched today, a program created by Bing to promote digital literacy to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The program was initially announced in June, inviting school administrators to register for the free service that gives participating schools ad-free Bing searches, SafeSearch filters to remove adult content from all Bing searches […]
Bing For Schools Offers Ad-Free Search Experience, SafeSearch Filtered Content & Lesson Plans
Bing announced Bing For Schools today, a new program designed for K-12 US schools, scheduled to launch later this year. In an effort to help schools teach digital literacy skills, Bing For Schools will offer an ad-free search experience with SafeSearch settings to filter adult content and lesson plans attached to homepage images. The Bing […]
This Year’s Doodle 4 Google Winner To Receive $30,000 College Scholarship
Beginning today and lasting through May 10, Google is asking users to vote for the best Doodle submitted by elementary and secondary school students from across the country. According to Google’s announcement, more than 130,000 submissions were received with fifty state winners selected as national finalists to compete for the 2013 Doodle 4 Google national […]
Google’s 6th “Doodle 4 Google” Contest: “My Best Day Ever…”
Google has announced the 6th annual Doodle 4 Google competition where children can earn win a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school – amongst other prizes. This year’s theme is “My Best Day Ever…” where the Doodle should represent ideas of what would be their best day ever. Google created […]
94 Percent Of Teachers Say Students Equate “Research” With Using Google
It’s almost unanimous: 94 percent of U.S. teachers say their students equate “research” with using Google or other search engines — more so than Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias. But teachers are less sure that their students are effective searchers, and they’re more skeptical than most adults about the accuracy and trustworthiness of information that’s […]
Dylan Hoffman’s Pirate Times Doodle 4 Google Wins Pirate Booty
Google announced the winner of the Doodle 4 Google competition and today that winner’s logo is on Google home pages around the world. The Winner is Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisconsin for his Doodle named “Pirate Times.” The Doodle won him a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook computer and a $50,000 technology grant for his […]
Watch, Know, Learn: A Rich Online Video Academy
The Khan Academy gets a lot of deservedly favorable attention for its breadth and depth of online video instruction. But there’s another, similar site that I think deserves applause for quality, authoritative online video instruction. It also happens to be a freebie. It’s called WatchKnowLearn.org and it’s being developed for K-12 students and educators. While […]
Mapquest Launches New Atlas For Students — With CIA Data
Mapquest has launched a useful new site: Atlas.Mapquest.com. As the name suggests it’s an interactive atlas, directed toward students and teachers, with tons of useful data and information — from the CIA. There’s a wealth of information here (as one might expect from the CIA) about populations, culture, the economy (and of course the military). […]
PPC Academy: A Midyear Recap
Well, the first half of this one-year search advertising course is in the books! This column was an idea that I hatched, and thankfully, SearchEngineLand.com’s executive editor, Chris Sherman had also been thinking about something similar, so the timing at the end of last year couldn’t have been better. So far, it’s been a wonderful […]
Ask Kids Relaunches With Cute Kids Features
A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, their search flavored for children. The Ask.com blog just wrote about the launch last night. Ask.com said the Ask Kids site was “built from the ground-up, with our own search technology.” It seems like Ask.com added a “very strict” list of which sites are allowed in the […]
Cast Your Vote For Doodle 4 Google Contestants
You can now cast your vote for the Doodle 4 Google competition at google.com/doodle4google/vote.html. Again, the winning doodle will be showcased on the Google home page on May 22, 2008 and the winner also gets a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for his/her school. To vote, go here and click on the […]
Professor Bans Google & Wikipedia In Class Room
Lecturer bans students from using Google and Wikipedia from The Argus reports that Professor Tara Brabazon from the University of Brighton has banned the use of Google and Wikipedia in her classroom. She said using Google and Wikipedia doesn’t encourage students to use their “own brains” enough. She added: I want students to sit down […]
Yahoo Debuts U.S. Schools Search Tool
Yahoo Real Estate has introduced a new Schools Search service that lets you search for U.S. schools by city and state or zip code. Results are plotted on a map, and you can sort by school district, distance from a specific location, grade level, or school type (public, private, charter). You can also plot nearby […]
Google’s Software Making It To The Classroom
Michael Liedtke from the AP reports more and more classrooms are beginning to use Google’s new Google Docs & Spreadsheets as a “supplement” to Microsoft’s Office suite. The article explains that although many do not believe Google’s software will replace Microsoft’s Office, they do believe it will be used a supplementary tool. But I wonder […]