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This is a great blog to have in your RSS feed reader! Each day I get an email with the latest ideas, websites, lessons and more related to education, teaching and using technology. You can search the blog for resources, downloads, tutorials just to name a few.

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

"Alexandra Samuel is Vice President of Social Media at Vision Critical, a market research technology provider and the author of Work Smarter with Evernote (Harvard Business Review Press, December 2012). She blogs for Harvard Business Review. Today, she's sharing her top tips for using Evernote to get more from your research."

Love it: "The problem is that human beings are not full text searchable..." (yet)

Alternatives to Google!

A primary school teacher sharing resources, practical ideas and thoughts on blogging, global collaboration and technology integration. educators can subscribe to newsletter that has step by step instructions on how to use web tools.

The first time I shared this I did so by sharing with PLN group rather than resaerch toolkit.. To share again I needed to go to edit, tick share to group, choose research toolkit from drop down menu and then go to save.

I have been researching apps for literacy to use and this sight has some great ideas.

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.

This is a place where you can find information for books, add book details - ratings, comments etc, organise and sort book collections, share information with others and more. I find it very useful and I am sure it would be for any library user.

Yes I am a fan of Library Thing too

Thanks for posting Sara, I've marked Assignment 2 as complete on Lore for you.

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.

Worth a look.

This web site is a great way to help students learn about the need to be discerning when researching online.

This is one of my favourite hoax sites to use with students. Thanks for posting it Yvonne, I've marked Assignment 2 as complete on Lore for you.

A quite interesting blog about using technology in Libraries and Education.

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

A nice introductory article on adding something more than basic to the ubiquitous Google search. Seems to be a timely article with this weeks ResearchToolkit assignment