Quintura Search Engine

This has been around a while and a few people have recommended  Quintura to me, I have not actually used it until this week. I was looking for a new search engine that used clusters or the tag cloud concept. I tried a search on the Middle ages. This is the main era for study for the year 8 [...]

Making web use easy for everyone

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Useful Links (weekly)

 Image * After – currently 21429 free textures and images availableFree high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.  Clipart ETC Homepage free collection of over 44,000 pieces of educational clipart for teachers and students. This royalty-free clipart is immediately available to all, no [...]

Backup your gmail

My Gmail has become the other email service, the one that I use when I want an account other than my school account. Google is relatively stable, and all the Google apps have been great, but there is also a risk that you can lose everything if something goes wrong. This was brought home to me again this week when [...]

Illustrated Books – A new series of classics

The world of children’s literature is a vital and amazing one, and one that often uses wonderful illustrations. There’s something very special about any beautifully illustrated book. The simplest picture books can speak volumes, to young and old alike, in a way that simply text cannot. Illustrated/picture books can capture the layers of a story/text. [...]