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Jeff Utecht's blog entry about a novel way to teach students search skills. Give students and start and end point. Eg. 3rd Grade - give students: Rocks and Volcanoes. Start with Rocks and create a search story that gets them to end the search story with how Rocks and Volcanoes are related.

Ergo is a site containing a great deal of information about Victorian history, including digitised primary resources. It also has tips on research skills and essay writing.

Seems obvious but I find this an easy to use research tool for a variety of ages.

Improve your research, essay writing and study skills, explore Victoria's history, and access over 700 original primary sources you can use in your assignments.

A study skills guide for primary & secondary students. Includes the research process, thinking & doing skills as well as web 2.0 tools.

The Study Vibe site is designed for students to encourage then to develop skills in many facets of study and research. It is the brainchild of Leonie McIvenny, a Western Australian teacher librarian.

Thanks for sharing. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

I found this on Google using a search like this: research vic.edu.au and hit enter. Very powerful and ensures that only relevant sites come up in google without all the unnecessary ones. Really fine tunes the search.

This is by primary teacher Kathleen Morris of Leopold Primary. Useful for primary students when introducing effective research skills.

FUSE is DEETs page and provides links to external sites such as ergo and SLAV. Tools included are Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Museum Cybersafety Countries News Research Skills Thinking Sport Ultranet Login

A wonderful go-to site. Thanks for sharing the link Colin. I've marked your Diigo assignment as complete on Lore.

Child friendly

Nice looking website directory with some excellent resources. Thanks for sharing the link to this site. I've marked your Diigo assignment as complete on Lore.

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research."

Research skills in step-by-step process. Covers searching for information, referencing, plagiarism, smart searching.  Provides the option of Flash movie format or print.  Only disadvantage is that movies will not play on iPad without Flash enabled browser.

Great site! Thanks for sharing Camilla

Comprehensive study skills website for students

Google's created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. Search Literacy lessons are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.

This YouTube channel has an abundant choice of resources for the VCE student. It was established by a young man who felt there was a need to provide current and relevant information about research skills, study techniques, a guide to write the perfect English essay and especially how to fine tune a search using Google. Each topic is delivered in easy speak and lasts for less than four minutes. I would highly recommend this site for students who are looking for quick sound bytes on surviving VCE.

Thanks for posting this link, Michelle. I've marked the Diigo Assignment as complete for you.

*finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces *generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level *supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment

Worth a look.

Looking for best practice 'Library Research Skills' for year 7's and I came across this link which I thought would be suitable for year 10's upwards. Any one else know of any other online self paced e-learning tools ranked and sequenced for secondary year levels???

A fun way to explore Wikipedia articles.

Google search short cuts poster series (get googling)

We're sooo going to us this for our 5 min slot in staff meeting! Thanks for posting this Bev.

Have just added this to my library website very efficient skills delivery for students and staff who have a little time on their hands.