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Index to Jamie MacKenzie's Online Journal, FNO. Many excellent articles especially on questions.

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I am a great fan of graphic novels, as are my students! Comic Rockets for readers writers artists takes users to the actual website and helps them find and track web comics. Oh and I found it on a fabulous site www.thelibraryasincubatorproject.org

The original link you posted takes us to the article on the incubator site."Incubator" looks like a blog worth exploring! Thanks for sharing the link to the site. I've marked your Diigo assignment as complete on Lore.

A rich collection of space science resources for educators

Links to reputable sites useful for all levels of education. There are just so many links here (try under curriculum or resources) and the websites are also given annotations which help to determine their suitability. This is Gold!

This website has great resources for teaching the holocaust.

Thanks for sharing the link Simon. I've marked your Diigo assignment as complete on Lore.

Fiction on Focus is a resource that can assist in locating authors and their works. It categories items into younger and older readers and many items have a review including catalogue details with subject headings.

Thanks for sharing the link, Mary. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

Gooru is a new service (still carrying the Alpha label) that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science.

A great Search Engine site, but with more features such as a Library of resource organised by subject area. Unfortunately very U.S. based, but for some subjects that wouldn't matter.

The science dept at school has just started experimenting with creating units on gooru - so far they are impressed! Thanks for sharing the link. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

A website with a focus on innovation, expert analysis and advice. Also produces a comprehensive cross-curricular program designed to assist students in developing a critical understanding of the world through the news media.

This is a really handy website which I use both personally and professionally. I am really keen on the idea of using fiction to help teach history. I think reading historical fiction helps bring history 'alive' and stimulates an interest in finding out more. Even if the book is not 100% correct it doesn't matter as discovering this is part of the learning process and encourages critical thinking.

That's fantastic! Thanks.

A great resource for the library Thanks for sharing. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore.

Outline maps of Australia and states. Copywrite allows for educational use.

For history teachers in the Western District a collection of photos that are great for teaching about primary evidence.

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

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 site for research on American history primary sources or anything about books and American literature

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