Research toolkit 2013

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.

Britannica articles and media, organise and tag content, and access a variety of other features and tools.

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

Dept. Education Vic Research topics related to curriculum

I love history and especially love historical mysteries and so do students. This is a very clear, well designed, up to date site that can lead students on to discover further info.

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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.

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the philosophy and theories behind the Reggio Emilia Approach and how it can be adapted in their setting.

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

This site covers many, many aspects of the research process. You will find tools, tutorials, and all sorts of resources to help you successfully navigate the research process. It's worth exploring the many tabs. Ergo also has a spot! It was last upated 21 Oct 2013

A collection put together by Robin Good. They are great resources that would help anyone trying to explain content curation.

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.

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

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

Some fabulous links that i have found really useful.

Searchable directory of nearly 10,000 free journal titles. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

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.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.