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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. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

"A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging."

Webinar about how mobile technology is 'transforming and enriching the experiences of informal learning spaces such as libraries...'.

The American School Library Journal's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning 2013.

Some great links in this post Lynda. I enjoyed having a play in the Smithsonian website and have bookmarked it into this group too.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.

Although this is a US Organisation the information is universal. There is a comprehensive menu which includes sections for educators, parents and kids, facts about ADHD, plus ideas for lessons.

There are many tools that can be used to help with the Student Learning Objectives process. This post discusses how to use Google spreadsheets to assist with the collection of data, sharing the information, and collaborating with others. There is also a link to the template the author created

Some fabulous links that i have found really useful.

I'm sure others will share this link to Research Skills information site!

Ergo on the State Library of Vic website: 'Learn skills' shows you how to make school work easier and will also help you improve your marks.In this section you'll find practical guides to researching assignments, writing essays and studying for exams. Useful resources to show classes in secondary school

Contains information and screen casts about how to teach better searching techniques to students. This article ties in with the ideas of e-learning and digital literacy.

"This post is a summary of the ideas. tips and resources shared during my presentation for the 2013 Reform Symposium e-Conference on digital curation." This is a very good explanation of what digital curation can mean in education and an exploration of some of the tools you can use.

"This post is a summary of the ideas. tips and resources shared during my presentation for the 2013 Reform Symposium e-Conference on digital curation." This is a very good explanation of what digital curation can mean in education and an exploration of some of the tools you can use.

A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

Vic Gov ipads for learning trial with useful links to classroom ideas; education apps etc.

I find the department has some good tools for students to use to research, especially FUSE. I find the information appropriate for the students in my grade.

Food for thought in terms of what students know about internet information and what we teach them.