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You will find it easy to find great resources for teachers and students.

The ADCC education site has a wealth of resources about Australia's military history and heritage for teachers and students.

Good game ideas to suggest to students (and teachers).

Some fabulous links that i have found really useful.

A great teacher resource for virtual historical artefacts. I used the painting of Abel Tasman in the section "Finding the land down under" during a Year 4 unit on European exploration of Australia.

Great resource for senior history students and teachers

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.

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.

One of the sites on technology in education that I refer to often.

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.

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

Good article for assisting students explore research tools.

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!

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.

School Libraries and Information Literacy links Internet sites linked here support aspects of the professional and collaborative work of teacher-librarians. They include some intranet sites that only NSW Departmental schools can access. The views expressed by individual Web sites are not necessarily those of the NSW Department of Education and Communities.

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

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses