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

Design online tests in any format. Tests can be given again whenever you want.

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."

"My goal in this article is to help you understand the available Evernote search tools, so that you will find it even easier and more enjoyable to use, than it already is. And if you're not a current Evernote user, to encourage you to take a look (or another look) at it. Note that these methods can be used in both desktop and web versions."

This is where you'll find the course materials

Research skills course material.

I see I am not the first to post this one. It is always a link on my library home page for students and one of the first I point out to them, even in NSW!

Web pages from the State Library of Victoria that contain details of the Research Process

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.

Another interesting option from Google. Create a quiz or survey for your class and send them the QR code to find it. It looks simple and has a video, created by high school students, to help explain how it works