This week (except for Wednesday) I am dedicating my posts to sharing resources I learned about at TCEA in Austin last week. I think packing too much info into a blog post is overwhelming, so if you are craving more, feel free to check out my notes (which are not finished yet!) here.
So it turns out that finding a Phun Phriday post based on your notes from a conference about technology in education is a little bit harder than I anticipated. Because… education. And Phun Phriday posts are supposed to be (according to the rules I established for such posts) decidedly not educational.
I did find a note from the very first TCEA session I attended this year that could qualify as not really educational – unless you happen to teach at Le Cordon Bleu. Unfortunately, since I don’t really like to cook, it doesn’t quite qualify as Phun, either. But maybe you would disagree.
I learned from Richard Lombardo (@Rich_Lombardo) and Jerrad Barczyszyn (@rpdpjerrad) that the Google Search Tools aren’t always the same. I usually use them when I’m looking for an image to determine copyright. But I had no idea they would be helpful on the nights my husband works late and I’m stuck cooking dinner.
For example, go to Google and do a search for fried chicken. Then click on the Search Tools underneath. Now, you can filter the recipe results by anything from calories to cook time! By choosing “under 15 minutes” and “under 100 calories” I changed the number of results from over 50 million to just 1 recipe.
I’ll be only slightly more impressed when I can type in, “Make me some fried chicken,” and Google completes the task for me. But then I’ll probably just complain about how Google always leaves the kitchen so messy…
mmmmm i love fried chicken!!!!!