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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.

From Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes. Copyright 2011 by The Guilford Press. All rights reserved. It A very useful and accessible explanation of the phase of explicit instruction in the e5 model. The chapter explores the underlying principles of explicit instruction, the evidence supporting this and also the concerns about explicit teaching,.

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!

"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."

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

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.

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

I use this site when teaching how to evaluate a website.

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

Lots of interesting information for students about the Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, the Immigration Museum and the Royal Exhibition Building

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.

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.