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drug info @ your library

drug info @ your library is a great resource for HSC students.

It provides information on:

• alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs
• drug and alcohol effects
• mental health and drug and alcohol use
• how to talk to others about drug use
• where to go for help

The website, www.druginfo.sl.nsw.gov.au, is a gateway to fact sheets and detailed information from drug and alcohol organisations, government departments and youth organisations.

In the For Students & Teachers page of the website there are links to statistics, reports and a specific section for PDHPE students. This page also contains useful links for the subject Society and Culture. Students can look at A-Z drugs and For Young People pages for more information.

Free Study Notes

CliffNotes provides homework help and free study guides on the web. Check it out soon!!

Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us

Whether you love it or hate it, it is us and we are it - Web 2.0. Welcome to the future.

Animation Made Easy

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Kids Prefer Reading Online

The unending debate over whether or not reading on the Internet is “really” reading gets played out once again in this New York Times piece titled “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?” It’s the story of a “typical” family where the kids are online some six hours a day reading and writing at FanFiction.net among other places.

Read the whole thing. All in all, it’s a pretty interesting back and forth between old readers and young, and the bottom line is that it’s obvious that’s it’s something we need to be thinking of as we think about reading curricula and pedagogy.

del.icio.us

I have used del.icio.us for a while. It is a social bookmarking site where you can keep all your bookmarks in one place, share them with family, friends and colleagues and check out what other people are bookmarking.

I have set up an account for the library that I use to help our users. Feel free to visit Emmaus Library’s bookmarks on del.icio.us. I have tagged sites about studying, the HSC, literary awards and the web. There is a link to it from our school library homepage, which you can access via Emmaus Online. The students also have access to this.

In the future, if you want me to locate Internet sites for year group assignments I will put these on del.icio.us.