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Welcome to LibGuides Find books, pictures, maps, documents, newspapers and online tools and resources to help with your research. 

Joyce Valenza and Kristen Swanson, have assembled a good collection of Web 2.0 tools and guides for teachers. The collection is part of STHS Library Guides. Their new tools catalog is organized by function (wikis, podcasting, etc) and topics related to technology use in schools (media literacy, fair use, privacy).  Applications for EducationIf you're the technology integration specialist or just the "techy" person that everyone goes to, the STHS Library New Tools is a good site to refer your colleagues to when they need a quick reference to learn about new tools.

This is a pretty decent collection of web tools and descriptions to pass along as references/resources of ed tech.

An amazing array of resources for education: digital storytelling, copyright/creative commons, tag clouds, mindmapping, digital citizenship and more.  Take 10 minutes to peruse this - impressive collection. Looks current, too.

Animation describing the drawbacks of relying exclusively on GOOGLE

From How Stuff Works--Whether you want to know more about building sustainable communities to exploring alternative fuels and energy conservation or simply "go organic" at home - you'll find the resources you need to start living green.

Everything Web 2.0

Shows examples of how to narrow down research questions

These two videos provide examples of evaluating websites and articles using the C.R.A.P. test (Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose/Point of view).

Thanks for posting this. I immediately added the site to the guide I prepare for students in my courses. By the way, Portland State Library's Research Guides and Tutorials are very nicely done and provide useful introductions to many areas. http://guides.library.pdx.edu/home

This is my school district's collection of Foundational Academic Skills links. A group of teachers collected these resources so that all teachers could more quickly learn proven, researched methods. GREAT resource!

Overview of Citation Software at MIT: Managing Your References. Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero

There's so many other options out there now...Mendeley, Qigga, etc.

School library media Kids, an innovative new site packed with games and book trailers, is designed to provide a fun, interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! They can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines.

check out this site! A good one to add to your libguide!

Writing resources