Research toolkit 2013

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

Use Pandora a feature from Trove to search for a selection of archived websites.

Pandora contains an archive of selected websites.

"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."

Info lit exercises from Google

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

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."

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

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Some fabulous links that i have found really useful.

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

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

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