[LM_NET] GEN: Quintura Kids

[Linda DeVore <linda.devore@CGELEM.K12.AZ.US>]

I have been reading blogs this summer trying to catch up on what is happening with 
technology in education and in libraries.  One blog that I have discovered is The 
Tech Savvy Educator http://www.techsavvyed.net/. [Irritatingly, I cannot access his 
blog at school, so had to wait until I had time this summer.] Today, I spent about 
two hours there and found a lot of interesting things to share with my teachers.  
One of the items I found that I thought might be of interest to you is Quintura 
Kids http://kids.quintura.com/ and it is the first visual search engine for kids. 
This is a fantastic replacement for Yahooligans, which fell to the bottom of the 
pile.  Some of the subject headings are words and other are images which you find 
when you scroll down the page.  It is similar to Kartoo, a visual search engine for 
adults, in that when you choose a subject heading, it floats sub-headings for you 
to narrow your topic.  Unlike Kartoo, it also starts showing the links on the 
bottom of the same page.  If you click on one of the sub-headings and it is one 
that you don't want included in your search, click on the red X and it will be 
eliminated from your search.  To start a new search you click on Quintura Kids in 
the upper left-hand corner. BTW there is a beta version of the same search engine 
for adults, but its scope is nowhere as good as other search engines right now.

Linda De Vore
Media Center Director
Casa Grande Middle School
Casa Grande, AZ 85222
linda.devore@cgelem.k12.az.us

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible 
and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." -  Charles W. Eliot



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