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A couple of useful tools for you to use with your class. Worth a read...

Some great suggestions on how to use Mind mapping tools such as Mind Node to scaffold stories. Great composition tool.

Great tools/models & strategies to assist learning.

A slideshare presentation focussed on web research which is well worth viewing for any TL. Has some great information and statistics on search, and how search-englines work. Also shares tools you can use for optimizing your search and saving your sources for later viewing. 

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

Love this!- interactive tool for analysing any character from ant text.

Some great options for creating book trailers are explored in this blog post - worth a look!

Fantastic tool to use to orientate you to content before you begin researchingAlso useful for students with learning difficulties

A fantastic blog by the School Library Association of Victoria. Always shares great resources relevant to school libraries and teacher librarians, with a focus on web 2.0 tools.

A blog by the School Library Association of Victoria

Check out this page with lots of other google search options & also great tools to assist learning. I especially like the 'Wonder Wheel' to help mindmap your search.

Great tool to use for quality learning - as discussed at out PD day.

An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html