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Learning for Sustainability

greig.thomson — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:07:24 +0000

Want to know what you can do at home, work and play to protect the environment, conserve energy and save money? Then check out the amazing It’s a Living Thing website.

The library also has several specialised databases on the environment to help you with your studies: GreenFILE, Sustainability Reference Centre, Environment Complete and Environmental Studies and Policy Collection. You can log on at our website under Information databases then OneSearch.

Edublogs.TV

gail.simmons — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:01:01 +0000

Twitter in plain English http-edublogs http-edublogsEdublogs.TV is available from the Teachers’ Resource page on Sydnet at http://www.sit.nsw.edu.au/library/ . Here is an item about Twitter from Edublogs. http://www.edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=1229. What do you think of this?

The Semantic web … the next best thing!

patricia.murdoch — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:35:54 +0000

The semantic web is variously described as an extension of and/or the future of the world wide web. Tim Berners-Lee (and others) published an article in Scientific American (May 2001) in which he described the web of the future as one where computers would be able to manipulate web content to find meaningful and relevant results for the end user.

Several semantic search engines are under development.

Using sophisticated semantic web searching technology – patent pending – Sensebot searches Google, Yahoo or MSN and generates a summary of the top result pages. Its technology includes “text mining” of documents to identify concepts, weighting of concepts depending on closeness to query and then the construction (or “summarization”) of content according to the Sensebot algorithm. This gives the end user an overview of a topic, event or phenomenon rather than just a list of relevant weblinks.

Try out Sensbot at the link below. What do you think will be the impact on education?

www.sensebot.net

What is eRes?

gail.simmons — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:06:41 +0000

The library maintains an electronic reserve collection of articles, chapters, forms and information sheets which students can access online from any computer with internet access.

Teachers provide the eRes password to students during class time to allow students to access the information and to ensure compliance with copyright.

If you would like to maximise access to essential readings or hard-to-locate information why not use eRes?

If you would like more information follow the link below.

eRes – http://www.sit.det.nsw.edu.au/eres