Online+Reference+Sources+and+Web+2.0+Tools

=Reference Sites =

(Password required) This online encyclopaedia has both a primary and middle school version

This database allows for searching under a range of subjects including history, literature, geography, and biographies. There is also a multimedia gallery containing photographs, graphs, maps, and sound and video clips. As this database has a strong American bias use American spelling when searching e.g. labor instead of labour. .



From the site: ‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. **Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand** offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.



Matapihi is your window onto the places, events and people of Aotearoa New Zealand. You can search over 175,000 pictures, objects, sounds, movies and texts.

 **[|PAPERS PAST] ** From the web-site: Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all regions of New Zealand. There are two main ways to find information in Papers Past: searching and browsing. Searching lets you enter a query term and retrieves articles that contain that term. Browsing lets you look at all the newspapers, starting with a year, a region, or a newspaper title. All the newspaper titles on the site can be searched and browsed.



International Children's Digital Library - Read books online! From the web-site:

Overview
The ICDL is a rich resource which can be used in a wonderfully wide range of situations by children, parents, teachers, librarians and others from all walks of life. Children can expand upon the stories to create games; parents can extract themes to help explain important lessons; teachers can utilize the multicultural nature of the collection to teach languages; librarians can enrich community outreach programs with tales from around the world and; of course, anyone can just open a book to read for pleasure.



Have you ever read a really cool book and wishes you could read another like it? This is the site for you! Just type in the title you have read and the Book Seer will find others you will enjoy too. Give it a go!



Welcome to Many Answers. Here you can search for answers to popular homework questions asked at AnyQuestions.co.nz.



This website directory has been created with Kiwi Children in mind and is safe, manageable, educational, high-interest, has visual appeal and showcases NZ. It can be used to research class & homework curriculum topics as well as children's hobbies and interests. There is a special link for Teachers and one for Librarians. [|New Zealand] [|Countries] [|Green Planet] [|Health and Fitness] [|Sports] [|Music and Dance] [|Art and Craft] [|Books and Authors] [|Earth and Space] [|Technology] [|Animals] [|Fast Facts] [|Hot Picks] [|Junior Stuff] [|News Flash] [|Blitz your Homework] [|Teachers] [|Librarians] =Web 2.0 Tools =
 * [|infoblitz] New Zealand's online resources for schools **

Cool Tools for Schools : **A really awesome wiki with all these tools to help you:** Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web



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