Symbaloo Home Webmix

The main idea of my Symbaloo project is completed, and is now bookmarked for easy access. One difficulty I had with Symbaloo is to get every icon you need to become connected and functioning, and the main reason is because some of my desired links were in the database, but others were not. I tailor-made the Empire State College link, added the logo but it was time consuming. The results were worth the time, because now I can use this page instead of constantly going into my bookmarks.

The Anatomy of a Successful Search

My search engine of choice is Google and it serves me well for searches. My search keywords can be off enough to give undesired results. I learned from Chapter 3 that a good keyword is central to a successful search.

A search demands that you specify one main keyword. In this example I am searching for music that plays on my computer without vocals so I can play along to it for practice. As I thought I realized that the word has to define what I am doing. The word for playing or singing along to music is karaoke. I've used Google for so long I know that this search engine is not good at asking questions to, for example, like asking, "What is the exact distance from the Earth to Mars on 1/1/2012"? Well that is odd and defies my logic! The question gave me the correct answer. "The distance [of Mars on 1/1/2012] from Earth is 1.03957 AU (155.5 million km)."

http://spider.seds.org/spider/Mars/mars2012.html

Picture taken when Mars was nearest to Earth

That is how unconscious my searching with Google is, but I was very lucky to have that work and have the first page hold the answer.

Back to  my karaoke web site. So what instrument do I want to play along with? The guitar. What are songs called by the music industry? Tracks. When I put them together karaoke guitar tracks I did get a web site with downloadable music that I can play along on my guitar and it was the first link. That was using keyword logic instead of luck.

Go!Animate

GoAnimate.com: Computer Literate by Bob Greenwald

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! I thought of how the Internet is loved by some and not used by others. I've known entire families with dusty computers. Maybe I love computers too much but they are so good at researching material for study, shopping, checking out the latest games and going to the news at my convenience. Just a short time ago we had to do all these things by physically going to the library, shopping at stores, playing board games and getting the newspaper or watching the news on TV.
The computer has transformed our lives.

On the right column is a new Twitter feed. I will be using this Twitter account to quickly add links that are fun and informative. Some will be three point shots, some two point shots and maybe many misses? It's all tech, all the time!