"Diigo stands for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff." It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your 'favourites' online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this."
"When I first started blogging with my class, I simply used text and images in blog posts. As my skills and confidence grew, I started using different forms of media to make the blog posts more interesting and interactive. Using a range of online tools is a great way to showcase student work."
"Nothing beats the real thing! features a new online multimodal education resource available at no charge for secondary classrooms. The resource examines aspects of copyright, creativity and ethics in relation to film and television content in Australia."
"The federal government has launched an online map of Australia that allows users to overlay geospatial datasets made available by agencies. The National Map is a joint effort by the Department of Communications, NICTA and Geoscience Australia."
Interactive tutorial from Rutgers University for students covering these areas: Selecting a topic, finding sources, selecting keywords, identifying citations, evaluating sources. Includes database searching using example of EBSCO, importing citations with RefWorks.
"A search to recover the very first web page has unearthed a relic from 1991. The page turned up after Cern launched a public appeal for files, hardware and software from the web's earliest days.
The original page is missing because the web's creators did not preserve the early work they did on what has become a historic document.
Unfortunately, other potential finds from the same era on that old computer remain hidden because the password for it has been forgotten."