Research Toolkit 2012

I can spend hours on this site. Beautiful photography, interesting information, and great search functionality - everything an online journal could aspire to be.

Agreed Anne, its fantastic for adults and children alike. Thanks for sharing this. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

Just recently discovered this site & its 7 Billion people special. Great stuff to use with students

An great article for Teacher Librarians concerning curation from one of the most prolific curators of information who just seems to share everything with the library community

A useful site that can be used as a starting point to understand other religions and their viewpoint on ethical issues.  I often use it as a reference when teaching both junior and senior RE.

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishers 'Year Book Australia' a useful source of Australian Statistical Information as well as information about the Australian Government. Excellent site to refer to students. If you prefer the print version, Year Book Australia should be available at your local public library.

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An interesting article found on school libraries and the student research process

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Watch the film on this website for inspiration (http://21foundation.com/)

Lots of food for thought here Barb

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

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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.

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Fantastic short course which will introduce you to some of the advanced search techniques available using Google. Some you will be familiar with, others you may have forgotten and some will be completely new. The course is not currently open but all the course material is still available at this site.

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The research guides at the State Library (Vic) are great and cover many subjects but I have found this guide particularly useful with secondary students. It focuses on Australian soldiers who served in WWI. Topics: soldiers, battles, medals, personal stories and more.

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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.

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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.

Lesson plans for Google searching

I've used some of these with my year 7's, they were very engaged with the activities and had some excellent discussions afterwards.

Ancient greece information

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Worth a look.

As a primary T/L I have found this website a great place for back-up material for teaching especially years 5 and 6. Lots of ideas-American but interesting.

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This website accompanies the excellent Australian Photography magazine and provides plenty of information on cameras and photography for the professional and aspiring photographer. It provides tutorials and inspiration galore.

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"Letter from the Mayor to the Earl of Kent, acknowledging his request of 20 Jan. for a force of 50 arbalesters for service against the Castle of Wallingford..." One of the richest repositories of primary sources. Read the proceedings of the Parliament during the Civil War or (depending on your Latin) records from the 13th century or look up the Ordnance maps from 1854.

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