As teachers we’re always told to vary our approach. Sometimes you should deliver content orally, sometimes visually and sometime bring the message across on paper. This is intended to accommodate different learning styles of the students.
If you’re trying to search for thing on the Internet presenting the material in different ways has been hard. After all, one search engine looks pretty much like another. It may be hard, but, thanks to Google, it’s not impossible. If you click on that Google link in the last sentence, it should open up into a search on our first PM, Sir John A Macdonald. That’s fairly standard stuff so far, right?
The cool thing that I’ve recently discovered was that if you click on the line at the top of the search where it says “Web +Show Options” it not only will let you change what’s highlighted in your search it will let you change how your search is presented. If you go down to “Standard View,” for example, and click on “Wonder Wheel,” you get a really neat visual representation of your search results. You can click on the various spokes of the wheel, and the relevant results show up to the right of the wheel.
And if you like that, you’ve got to try the timeline. That option is a wonderful thing for a history teacher.
Accommodating different learning styles doesn’t always have to be onerous.