Research Toolkit 2012

'Developed by Education Services Australia through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers' notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators' notes also provide useful background material.' Clips are organised under headings such as 'war', 'identity and culture', 'sport and health'...a treasure trove!

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"Developed by Education Services Australia through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers' notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators' notes also provide useful background material. Clips in this collection have been selected for their educational value and any clips that are considered potentially disturbing carry clear classification warnings."

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I have been to this museum and thought it was fantastic.

one of my favourites for year 7 humanities!

A fun way to explore Wikipedia articles.

Asia Education Foundation (AEF) enables educators to develop Asia literate young Australians. They support teachers, principals, education leaders and school communities to implement the Australian Curriculum cross-curriculum priority of Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia.

I go to My Library but do NOT see bookmark???

Hi Merryn, Not sure what's happening at your end, I can see your bookmark fine. In situations like yours, I try refresh then jump out of the site and browser then back in just to see if it clears things. Hope that helps.

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.

Google's created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. Search Literacy lessons are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.

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

I found this on Google using a search like this: research vic.edu.au and hit enter. Very powerful and ensures that only relevant sites come up in google without all the unnecessary ones. Really fine tunes the search.

This is by primary teacher Kathleen Morris of Leopold Primary. Useful for primary students when introducing effective research skills.

Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard. Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan events or collect and organise things they like that relate to different topics. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

A new search tool that can be used in Google Documents - search for web resources, images, quotes within a document - clicking the button generates a citation

If you are interested in putting together tutorial videos or screenshot guides then here are some free tools to get you started.

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!

Comprehensive study skills website for students

A rich collection of space science resources for educators

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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