Research Toolkit 2012

While we are on the topic of Search Engines, here is a list that everyone might find useful.

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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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Kilbreda is a all girls school in the bayside suburb of Mentone.

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

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These are the original household manuscripts signed by the head of each household on census night 1901 and 1911. Free to view.

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Fancy a trip overseas.

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.

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

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

My all time favourite site for medieval research.

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A great resource for teachers getting into Google Docs - covers all the basics.

Mazenod Head librarian leads the way for secondary school libraries keep your eye on developments at this site! http://www.oclc.org/au/en/membership/default.htm

Information about Indigenous people, mainly in Victoria and the Northern Territory. The Melbourne Office holds Victorian records dating from 1860. The Archives also holds records on the development of Australian Government policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, as well as more recent records on the amendment of the 1967 Constitution to allow the Australian Government to legislate for all Aboriginal people.

the lotus diagram that everyone was raving about - can't remember who recommended it but thanks! It's wonderful. Make sure you look as the example along with the template.

"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)

This provides two things: a step-by-step guide to making interactive images in ThingLink and also a nice presentation tool/source of Hot to lessons, in SnapGuide. 

A great site if your students are working on sustainability issues within Australia