Inside Hana’s suitcase. It is a remarkable and moving story about a Japanese teacher and her class who receive a suitcase when they are researching the Holocaust. This is being shown on ABC2 on Wednesday Night (25/11/09).
Here is a snippet from the documentary.
There is also the family’s website … Hana’s Suitcase which is well worth a look.
Click here to purchase a copy of Hana’s Suitcase. Remember to login to Booksurf first.
Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide with reliable information from Australia’s memory institutions.
If you are researching in the fields of the social sciences, literature, local or family history, or need inspiration for your school assignment, then this is the tool for you. This site is part of National Library of Australia with a wealth of information and resources.
Viewzi is a website search tool that offers results from Google and Yahoo in a variety of formats incliding Webscreen Shots, Simple Text, Google Timeline, Power Grid, Video x3, Photo Cloud and much much more. It is definitely worth looking at.
National Geographic Kids is a fun and educational site featuring games, activities, animals, photos, videos, stories and much more This site is great for both students and teachers.
The site is full of content that is both educational and fun. Highly recommended!
The Online College is dedicated to bringing you the best online educational tools and resources.
Here is a link to a great post on the Online College for 100 Great YouTube Videos for History . History teachers, students and buffs will enjoy using this link.
YouTube always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information by delivering channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel.
This blog site and post has put the top 100 links together in one place. Areas include General History, Art History, Music History, World History and much much more.
Spezify is a search tool that presents results in a variety of visual ways from many different websites. Spezify gives a good overview of the subject or topic. Spezify uses all types of media and websites such as blogs, videos, microblogs and images to build wholistic picture of the search.
Spezify collect websites and aim to use as many free, relevant and open API’s as possible to generate a diverse response.
There are biographies of musicians, over 100,000 scores, links to websites, information on copyright, over 100,000 sound recordings, videos, archives, pictures and more.
This is site would be suitable for music teachers, students and anyone interested in Australian music.
Here is a new website set up by National Library of Australia. It is currently a prototype with release into production later this year. It is called SBDS Protoype. Its aim is to provide a one stop shop of resources currently available via the Library’s multiple services, and digitised material freely available online anywhere in the world.
According to the site…
“You can find:
Text resources such as books, theses, reports, research articles, raw data sets from research, book chapters, sheet music, conference proceedings, and papers and records collected by significant people and organisations
Maps and Audio-visual resources such as photos, artworks, postcards, videos, musical sound, sheet music and sound recordings of interviews
Full text of selected Australian newspapers, from between 1803 and 1954
Copies of significant Australian websites which may no longer be available online
Information about significant people and organisations “
This site uses resources from the following wide range of resources, including Picture Australia, PANDORA, Australian Newspapers Beta, Australian National Bibliographic Database, and the ARROW Discovery
Service.
Some of the items you can look up include – Books and Journals, Pictures and Photos, Music and Sound, Australian Newspapers (1803-1954), Diaries and Letters, Maps, Archived Websites and About People.
Anthony Hill latest title ‘Captain Cook’s Apprentice’ has brought historical events to the forfront through the eyes of the ships’ boy – Isaac Manley.
“Captain Cook’s Apprentice is the story of the famous Endeavour voyage as seen through the eyes of a ship’s boy, Isaac Manley.
Death in the snows of Tierra del Fuego … first love in Tahiti … Maori warriors and cannibals in New Zealand … Botany Bay … near-disaster on the Great Barrier Reef … and real tragedy waiting for them in Java. Isaac Manley saw it all. A real boy, who was promoted Midshipman by Captain Cook, Isaac Manley went on to become an Admiral and was the last survivor of the Endeavour crew. ”
It is a fantastic book that encourages students to read more about our history through the eyes of a child. Anthony always knows how to bring history to life.
Click here to purchase a paperback edition of Captain Cook’s Apprentice.
Click here for teaching notes and reference and internet links and videos about Captain Cook’s Voyagers.
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I'm enjoying looking at your blog. Last week's information on the Flip video was very interesting and the Librarian's Song was great.
Keep up the good work!
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SMS Librarian
Trinity Catholic College
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