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This is a site where teachers can upload lesson plans and lesson ideas which directly correlate with the Australian Curriculum.

Here you will play an interactive game and learn how to correctly format APA or MLA citations for some of the most commonly used citation types.

Great collection of information, stories, recipes, activities for Hanakkah

Carolyn Knight, Teacher in the Library and colleagues at Amesbury School, a new Year 1-6 school in Churton Park, Wellington talk about how their school library supports literacy and student inquiry.

This rubric aligns Charlotte Danielson's Enhancing Professional Practice Library Program Evaluation Rubric Tool, the goals of the Common Core Standards and NYS Teaching Standards

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.

The FBI has recently released a series of games for Years 3-8 to teach how to safely and ethically use the internet.

"A step by step, no-fuss explanation of Twitter, how to set up an account and how to use it professionally to access the wealth of resources, information and connections that are literally just one click away once you build your network."

Air New Zealand air safety video, featuring characters from The Hobbit.

"New digital forms of information offer rich and extraordinary opportunities for libraries to expand community access to information and to revolutionize in positive ways the relationship between libraries and users. At the same time, these new forms of digital content pose new challenges. As libraries struggle to meet the challenges of providing digital content in an environment characterized by significant uncertainty and changing on a daily basis, there is a need for an Association-wide group of experts, broadly representative of the many constituencies within the library community, that can proactively address these digital content opportunities and issues at the highest level and from both a policy and practical perspective."

"This is by far the BEST stop motion app available. It is so easy to use which, as a parent of a 6 and 8 year old, is critical. Kids are able to use this with little to no parental guidance and more importantly, they LOVE this app. "

"In order to make this program grow, students will have to take a role in terms of creating and managing their badges. Of course, we will be there to guide the students, but it will require students to be a little more creative with their time in the library. We feel this will be a positive program to help student learn time management skills, as well as increase their reading throughout the school year."

"ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. "

"ABC Splash is a new education website for Australia, packed with 100s of videos, audio clips and games. Totally free to watch and play at home and in school."

Students at almost 500 Australian schools are running Facebook pages dedicated to humiliating their peers.