Happy Halloween!

UPDATE Google Doodle Halloween 2012

Celebrating Halloween, Google has announced another one of his cool and awesome interactive doodles. You can see this half-scary, half-funny doodle right now by visiting Google's homepage.

Google's doodle for Halloween. Image's credit (obviously) belongs to Google! :D

P.S. knock, knock! trick-or-treat! :D Happy Halloween! ;)

Google's doodle in honour of Winsor McCay

UPDATE (10-16-2012) Read more 107th Anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland

Today, October 15, in honour of Winsor McCay's 107th birthday, Google has changed his logo to a fantastic animated comic strip, narrates McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" story.

To see this beautiful and fascinating doodle, just visit Google's homepage.

Little Nemo in Slumberland's complete scenes. Note that some scenes are scroll-sensitive in original doodle.

Upcoming Power Searching classes: when and how?

On October 12, +Dan Russell, senior search research scientist at Google and presenter of "Power Searching with Google" course, has published a post on his blog about upcoming "Power Searching" courses. I just quote the entire post, for those who are interested:

Lots of people have been asking me "When's the next MOOC for Power Searching?" 

Or, more generally, "How can I know when the next class is offered?"

Here's the answer:  There are several ways to do this.  

1. You can follow the Inside Search blog 
2. You can  follow the G+ page for "Google Online Courses"
3. Or ... follow my personal G+ page
4. OR (best solution) -- To receive announcements about future search-related classes, add yourself to the Search Education Google Groups mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-search-education

If you are specifically interested in search classes for K-12 education, join: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/google-search-education-k-12

On these lists we'll only send you a message when a new class is being offered.  Note that users can't post to these groups (only we can!), so you won't be sent random messages.  

Hope to see you in a future class! 

Again, I strongly recommend to every one who is interested in advanced search techniques: DO NOT LOSE upcoming courses. It's a great opportunity!

Behold: Here is my certificate!

Today, I received my "Power Searching with Google" course certificate. In fact it has not any academic or legal and so on value, but I am proud of myself for taking and completing this valuable course. The site in now unavailable, but Google has announced from Monday, October 15, all the videos, texts and activities will be accessible; however, unfortunately, there isn't any more certificate.

If you have participated in this course, guess yourself a lucky one and if not, you have the opportunity to take the course again, and I strongly recommend you to do that!

My pretty, precious, googly certificate. Image credit obviously belongs to myself! :D 

P.S: I want to thank Mr. +Dan Russell for his warm and pleasant presentation. He is really a good teacher.