Class Thursday, October 4, 2012

1. Web Tools

How do you find out information about a website such as its owner and host?

http://www.whois.net/

Reverse image search engine- find out where image came from and if others exist

http://www.tineye.com/

Wolfram Alpha “knowledge engine”

http://www.wolframalpha.com/tour/examples.html

Enter in a query or click on one of the icons on the main page

“Wayback Machine” Internet archive- see archived versions of webpages

http://archive.org/web/web.php

What’s trending on Twitter?

http://trendsmap.com/

2. Some Google

Google’s 14 (probably younger than you!)

Find out what really happens when you send an email

3. Next project

You will create an interactive timeline that will be posted on your class page

Here is my example:

Further instructions for you to follow tomorrow!