teacher-librarians

"This is our web2.0 first expedition. Browse, look around, read, stop by, understand,ask questions, appreciate what's out there! You go wherever you want. You don't have to explore each Web2.0 box, just do what time and interest let you explore."

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Grab all the photo files in your email inbox and turn it into a gallery.

This medieval webquest contains a lot of links to good information, as well as a section on planning a unit on the Middle Ages.

Free clipart and animations from "Harry the Cat" and Dorrett Goodwin.

This is quite a good page from Oakton Library about evaluating websites. The table has 2 sections - questions to ask at each step, and "how to interpret the basics." Accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage.

This page has a lot of good links to medieval webquests and links to Middle Ages information. Mostly suitable for Yrs 4-7.

This webquest seems like it would be useful for Yrs 5 - 7

This is one of the pages from a webquest on the Middle Ages, specifically designed to help students gain more from reading the book "The Door in the Wall". It contains lots of links to

This site offers an extensive database of all things castle related including a directory of castles from around the world, a photo gallery with thousands of castle photos, castle greeting cards, a castle forum where you can meet other castle enthusiasts, a castle glossary and more! If you enjoy castles then this is the place to be.

If you have any photos of the displays which you have created in your library, please share them here, and hopefully pick up a few ideas from other people.

This is a photostream of favourite library displays and layouts from Fran Hughes, Education Officer: Library & Information Services, Catholic Education Services Cairns Diocese

The Whuffie Factor is a breakthrough book, providing the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the lucrative, but strange and elusive world of online communities. As Tara Hunt has found, online success comes from building a community and being part of it - not by pushing a product or service. If you want to learn the secret sauce behind Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, you have to use them until you love them.

This seems to be a site similar to Google Docs where you can find and share professional documents.

The Web 1.0 concept was simple: web pages linking to web pages. Then came Web 2.0 - a powerful movement from web pages to web applications. Web 2.0 applications have evolved into often slick viewports into proprietary or personal collections of information. This means they still primarily house data in silos inaccessible to and disconnected from the larger world, and most importantly, from each other. But as we approach 2009, the clear outlines of the new web are forming. Some call this next generation the Semantic Web, but we think that term is confining, and so, instead, we refer to it as simply Web 3.0. The new web is moving beyond connecting pages to interconnecting data objects, concepts, and things. Ultimately Web 3.0 is really about creating technology that more accurately mirrors how we see and think about the world around us.

Thousands of widgets for your blog, profile or web page

This is a widgetyou can add to your blog or webpage. It features a different author each month, and you can scroll through a list of quotes from different authors through history.

This blog entry looks at different products on the market to give an overview of a webpage without having to actually visit the site.

Social abookmarking and annotation with Diigo

This site gives lots of links under the following headings: Plagiarism and the internet Plagiarism in schools General resources on plagiarism Helping students avoid plagiarism Papermills and plagiarism detection Teaching about plagiarism

This is a useful PPT presentation for giving students a brief overview of the issues involved with plagiarism.