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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. 

Librarians and the Internet, Social Media, and Web 2.0 - A ning

Book Search works just like web search: Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. Google will then search and attempt to find content that contains a match for your search terms. You can see everything from a few short excerpts to the entire book,in some cases.

Want a fun way to help students practice and enhance their web research skills while discovering answers to trivia questions? Then check out "A Google A Day!"

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

What is Diigo- Find out what Diigo can do for you.

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. 

Good article which outlines some of the uses for blogs in education.

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

This is a google custom search that finds all the best notebook files from some of the best interactive websites around. 

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

Great website for creating online interactive timelines.

A great explanation of Evernote and how it can be used in a 1:1 environment, targeted at secondary students.

A blog post exploring the use of social media in a library setting. In the post, Judy advocates the only way to teach social media, is to do it yourself first...