Comments on: Dynamic Wiki-driven OER Search Engine

By: The Education of an Un-Artist » Serendiptous collaboration chains

The Education of an Un-Artist » Serendiptous collaboration chains — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:13:20 +0000

[...] in Victoria, Canada, Scott Leslie alters Hirst’s formula so that the collection of sites being indexed by the Google Custom Search Engine is managed on a [...]

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:46:55 +0000

John K. and I were putting together a lesson that references OER-finding and I stumbled upon your wiki-driven Google search. It's a brilliant idea, though when I searched up "photosynthesis" the Google must have known it was me, because it gave up this as the first hit: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8137271476024676334

By: Simple side of openness « Open Education News

Simple side of openness « Open Education News — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:39:33 +0000

[...] Brian links to Tony Hirst’s OER custom search which we mentioned previously and notes the similarly simple OER Dynamic Search Engine started by Scott Leslie. Within Scott’s OER Dynamic Search Engine wiki, search for content in the existing listed sites on the wiki or contribute a new link to the list by following these deliciously simple steps. Got a new site? Log in as username: edtechpost_guest (same password) and add it to the list. Simple, eh? [...]

By: del.icio.us driven Google custom search « The Ancient Geeks

del.icio.us driven Google custom search « The Ancient Geeks — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:53:37 +0000

[...] Building and editing a Google custom search using the interface on the Google site is by no means difficult, but over the past year or so some tools to make it even easier have come out. The Google Marker allows you to add sites to a CSE by pressing a button on your browser. Or you can make CSEs on the fly that search across the links in a web page (the example from Tony Hirst was based on links from this page from ZaidLearn). Scott Leslie enhanced this idea by putting the links into a wiki so that it was possible add sites. [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:48:48 +0000

I realized I could have added a better link to the “custom google coop engine on the fly” code – you can find the Javascript to turn any page into a “lense” with Google Coop at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/onthefly . Literally, just copy and paste this onto the page with the links on it that you want to constrain the search to, and their you go. Truly brilliantly simple.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:28:08 +0000

This is very cool Scott. Google Coop is something I have not paid enough attention to.