Stumpedia
A totally different way to search than Google, Stumpedia is a personalized social & real-time collaborative discovery tool that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Stumpedia does not depend on automated bots, proprietary algorithms,…
Digital China
D-Lib Magaine: the magazine of digital library research has just released the May/June 2010 edition. The current edition features articles and information on digital collections from China. Topics such as The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933–1946 Special Issue on…
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pathfinderswap – home tags: pathfinderswap, pathfinders, library, wiki, pathfinder, education, libraries, learning, technology, collaboration WikiNorthia tags: wikinorthia, wiki, technology, web2.0, collaboration, libraries, learning BBC Sport – Football – MOTD unplugged – Hansen’s history lesson tags: football, sport, bbc, soccer, worldcup,…
WikiNorthia
Documenting stories from people in Melbourne’s north, WikiNorthia is a wiki with two main assets. It is open to contributions from anyone. With topics such as: art and literature, buildings, community, environment, events, people, places, sport and recreation, transport and…
Pathfinder swap
We’ve all done pathfinders for our students. They take quite a bit of time, but they are so useful to point students (and teachers) in the right direction when researching a topic. Now teacher librarian Dr Joyce Valenza has come…
History of soccer in South Africa and free game
For anyone studying or interested in the World Cup, the BBC has produced a five minute video of the history of soccer in South Africa. The video is available to viewers in Australia (not always the case with BBC videos)….
More maths screencasts
Further to the post about Mathtrain.TV a few weeks ago, another school site sharing maths screencasts has come to my attention. Craig Mantin and Willowgrove Middle School students have created over thirty screencasts embedded in this wiki to share with…
Wesley College investigates eReaders
The 2009 SLAV Research Grant recipients Wilma Kurvink and her team Marie Turnbull, Bart Rutherford, Margaret Pajak, Meg Moores and Cameron McIntosh, at Wesley College have just completed a study into using eReaders at school. Wilma has kindly shared an…
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Museum Box Homepage tags: history, web2.0, museum, interactive, writing, socialstudies, project, education, technology, collaboration, learning 21st Century Workers Require New Skills. « Libraries and Transliteracy tags: 21st, century, transliteracy, workers, collaboration, learning, technology, education, web2.0 Convert any text to speech…
Museum Box
This is a nifty site that is available to teachers and schools worldwide. The site explains how Museum Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items…
