Helpful Image Search Tool
This is the most helpful thing I’ve seen in days. I use Google Image search an awful lot, mainly looking for images to use in my booktalks. I’ve always hated how many clicks it takes to get to the actual image. And I’m constantly being called on to explain to people how they ended up with just a thumbnail when they thought they were getting a full size picture. Google Image Ripper is a nice little hack that gets rid of all that for you, what a relief.
Though, I should also mention, I steer my students away Google Image search, it’s really too easy to stumble on inappropriate material. We’ve found that Picsearch is much more appropriate for student use.
Nice, I’m going to check out Picsearch and we always have issues with thumbnails instead of full size pictures.
18 Mar 2007 at 11:19 pm
Thanks again, you Techno-Xena! I hadn’t run into the thumbnail problem, but my tech coordinator indicated, in his somewhat reserved way, that he certainly has. PicSearch’s claim to filter out “all offensive material” raises a few hairs on the back of my neck, but it’s certainly good for teachers to have options.
22 Mar 2007 at 2:15 pm