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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

This piece articulates why students need to be taught information literacy skills and be exposed to a variety of information sources on the web. "Students today write reports from information they find on the internet. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. Students are making connections with many different kinds of people, actively looking for and soliciting different points of view. They need to develop the skill to work out just who are the experts are in the crowd and then using a "blend of personal and social information" to predict the best solution,create the best content and ask the best questions."

This is where you'll find the course materials

Research skills course material.

Wiki space on skills descriptors

"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."

A really useful site teaching website evaluation skills in an entertaining and unique manner.

There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide - four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below.

Unquestioning reliance on automation can, and has, led to disasters. This is one of the major reasons why teacher-librarians, librarians and other information professionals need to very diligently to ensure digital information literacy skills are learnt by everyone in the community. We all need to be in control of our technologies, not allow our technologies dictate to us.

Kathleen Morris - Primary Tech blog covering research skills

Great post from Kathleen Morris Lynn. Great to see the sharing of resources happening in the comments too. Many hours worth of exploring in all the links!

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.

Did you know that this is a great site to find images of every description, even work related?

It sure is - but also terribly addictive!

It's worth a look

I subscribe to Echoeducation and find it really useful for my senior secondary English classes. It can be searched for articles in the Australian media and also compiles information and articles about current issues.

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.

Looks handy.  Tutorials for using Google Docs, sites, etc.

Interesting document used to support the educational importance and foundation on which K-3 database, PebbleGo, was founded. A good read. AND the database really is superb for these ages.

Video. What is PIL? Project Information Literacy is a national (US) study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age