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Category Archives: Google

Hailey Goes Cross-Platform

You watched Hailey Hacks Google Maps, now check out the map!

View Hailey’s Haida Gwaii Project in a larger map
To make the video, we made a map and now you can find it on Google Maps.  If you’re starting a project on the Haida or just  interested in learning to use Google Maps, it’s a great […]

Hailey Hacks Again!

The lastest episode of Hailey Hacks is online.  Master Google Maps and make them your own!

Still No Elmo

In honour of E.C. Segar’s birthday, find his creation, Popeye, in the Google logo today.

My Google Collection

They got this one up quickly.  It signifies the water on the moon!
Awesome!

It’s Not Grover

…Google celebrates Remembrance Day.
The poppy didn’t make it into the main logo.  Instead it’s underneath.
I don’t believe I’ve seen Google mark a special day in this way before: with the image under the search bar.
The poppy isn’t linked to anything.  When you click on it, you don’t get taken to a Google search that explains […]

Grover Day… Sort of

This is no tribute to Grover’s total awesome furry cuteness.  But at least he made the cut.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street.  Congrats Childrens Television Workshop.

Six — Six Days of Sesame Street

Yay!  Day 6 of the CTW birthday celebration continues with The Count.  For those of you who don’t know, the Count’s full name is Count von Count.  And he is one of the most brilliant characters ever created.
And maybe, just maybe, there’s one more day left in this celebration and perhaps, Google is saving the […]

If This Is Sunday This Must Be Elmo


Yay!  The Sesame-thon on Google continues, today with Oscar.
Wednesday it was Bird, Thursday, Cookie, Friday Bert and Ernie and today Oscar.  A welcome addition to the collection.
I’m left hopeful that Sunday is Grover day.
Sure, there’s competition — not in my mind, but the Guardian suggests Elmo is one of them most loved of all time […]

Oatmeal and Pigeons

It’s Friday and Google is featuring Bert and Ernie in their on-going celebration of the 40th birthday of the Childrens Television Network.
Are there more celebratory logos to come?
I hope so, because Big Bird, Cookie and Bert and Ernie may be classics, but what about Grover???!!!
In my on-going celebration of the birthday, here’s another Grover video.