Whoever thought it would be cool to be squared? The wonderful technology inventors at Google certainly did. By typing into your web browser squared.google.com, you will be directed to the Google Squared Labs.
Here you can search for your topic, but Google goes one step further. It takes everything that you could have wanted in a search and puts it into individualized columns.
For example:
I typed into the search box "War of 1812" and got a list that looks like this:
It's a little hard to see, but the columns say, Item name, Image, Description, Location. If you hover your mouse over any of the descriptions the websites will appear at the bottom, so you can make sure your students aren't using Wikepedia for the main sources!
It also gives you a neat feature to add columns. In this example to the right of the Locations column it has a section where you can add. When you click there they give you options like date, date of birth, died, place of birth, etc. You can also name your own and Google will search for it for you!
It's a neat little trick that I found that will help make your researching as easy as can be! Just don't forget the site is squared.google.com (or you can just click to the left).
Enjoy!
Wow! What a neat feature! It's nice to think that this option is available from Google because you have to beware of "lazy searchers" who will only click on the first few results and call it a day of research. Thanks for pointing us to this site Mr. Place!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr. Place! I just made three 'squares' for countries that my students are researching.
ReplyDeleteNot a problem! I saw this at a conference and was blown away by it. Check back tomorrow for another cool Google tool that I'm going to show you!
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