Research Toolkit 2012

Research UK paintings via the BBC

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Information about Antarctica and Australia's presence in Antarctica.

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I use SLV for pictures and to get ideas for themes.

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Guide to sharing entire notebooks online with Evernote

This international website celebrates picture story books with a different title highlighted each day in November. Three Australian titles are included.

Here's a step by step guide with screenshots for sharing a note from Evernote for Windows. 

Here's a recent post from Bright Ideas about backing up your data from online services such as Diigo, Evernote and Google apps.

Excellent information about many aspects of war. Useful for statistics.

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Education uses of Evernote

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.

Fancy a trip overseas.

I first came across Eric years ago at MLC. Haven't caught up with all the posts yet, so someone may have beaten me to it! Excellent search tool for anything and anyone. Contains journals, collections, microfiche archives,etc

Melbourne venue for author talks, discussions on wide range of topics to do with books

Indeed, a great place!

One of the resources we (my TL hat on now) use from Wheeler Centre is for VCE English students - "Texts in the City" sessions - videos from past years are online. Thanks for sharing. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore.

A good way to share this type of information with students is via infographics. Complete a search for [infographic google search] and you will find a gold mine of information. 

Love infographics and so do my students. Thanks for sharing the link, Simon. I've marked your Diigo assignment as completed on Lore.

Saw a presentation about this by Bernadette Mercieca on this at Saturday's TeachMeet Looks like a great way to save AND share

I've found all of Museum Victoria's websites extremely useful. This is an interesting research tool for family histories.

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Thanks for the positive comments we built this resource with the express purpose of providing students and teachers with explicit examples of research and a scaffolded approach to historical enquiry We are adding to the resources and the aim is for the site to be interactive Would be happy to assist any school who would like to take on creating digital histories in 2013 - used in conjunction with Historypin http://www.historypin.com Jan

If you haven't discovered Pinterest yet, better check out Carolyn's link! Thanks for sharing. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

Pinterest is the fastest growing virtual corkboard website in the world. You can search topics and then bookmark them on boards which you create. Warning, it is slightly addictive!

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

Niffty diagram to explain the process of research

Colourful and unpacks the process for younger students. Thanks for sharing the link, Marissa. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

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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.