Finding Education resources and information

Education databases

Australian Education Directory ACER
Gives contact details of Australian and New Zealand educational organisations - government departments and authorities, higher education and VET institutions, and professional, curriculum, research and special interest groups.

Australian Education Index - AEI Plus Text
Produced by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts sources at all levels of education and related fields.

Australian Education Index - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Subset - AEI - ATSIS INFORMIT
Subset of the Australian Education Index database

CrossSearcher allows you to search across up to 10 Education specific databases of your choice

Ed/ITLib Digital Library (Formerly AACE Digital Library) Journal articles and proceedings on latest research, developments and applications related to Educational Technology and E-Learning

EDNA - Education Network Australia
EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.

Education Research Theses
Collection of Australian Educational Theses

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost) ****New Resource***

This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Includes full text

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center EBSCOhost - contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals - includes full text

Family and Society Plus Text
An indexing and full text database to articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Family & Society Plus is based on 'FAMILY', the Australian Family & Society Abstracts* database

Multi-discipline databases

AEShareNet
A searchable database of training materials and the ability for members to transact standard licences to use and adapt materials and to negotiate individual licences based on a common framework.

AusStats  
Australian Bureau of Statistics is the statistical core of the ABS Web site available to students and staff of all Australia's Universities. It includes full text files (such as spreadsheets) that can be downloaded. A price will be given, but this is just for recording purposes. There is no charge for Charles Darwin University staff or students.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text INFORMIT
Based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and includes full text

MAS Ultra - School Edition EBSCOHost
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines.  Also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.

Professional Development Collection EBSCOhost
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.

PsycINFO EBSCOhost
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

Sociological Collection
Covers 500 plus full text journals including areas of social behavior, cultural & social structure, community development, relationships etc

Web Sites

General

AT&T Blue Web'n   an online library of 2035 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects)

Education Network Australia - edna is Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.

Education Portal is a gateway to more than 5,000 websites providing reliable information about education and training in Australia.

Educators Reference Desk

Education Virtual Library
Education - BUBL LINK - UK list of selected Internet resources. Includes a list of Dewey numbers for education.

Gateway to Education Materials (GEM)

Global Education The Global Education Centre is a non-profit, non-government organisation committed to global education.

Assessment

Australian Council for Educational Research

Guide to using rubrics as an assessment tool

NT DEET Reporting Student Achievement

WA Det site focussing on outcomes

Australian Government Departments of Education

Department of Education, Science and Training the DEST site gives access to the latest information on education, science and training aound Australia.

MCEETYA Victorian Govt site linking to NZ & Aust state & territory Education departments and related organisations.

Northern Territory specific sites

Northern Territory Teacher Registration Board

Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training

Education Library - Northern Territory Library and Information Service

Sharing our Territory  An initiative of NT DEET and is a project for teachers and students in the NT. Site for sharing of work units that are engaging students in modules of learning with an NT focus

Children's Literature

Book Awards WA DET site focussing on fiction.

Book Raps

Books and reading   Links to teaching resources and sites relating children's literature, including book lists by subject.

Children's Literature online resources

Curriculum

Curriculum Corporation

BBC Schools Homepage Learning resources for school and home.

WA DET site listing curriculum related resources.

NT DEET Curriculum Frameworks

ESL

Internet TESL Journal

ICT

iteach toolbox

Mark Prensky speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of educational software and learning.

Teaching with blogs.

Tom March's website is full of wonderful resources designed to help classroom teachers to take steps to systemically make learning more Real, Rich and Relevant, using technology.

NT DEET ICT Information

Indigenous Education

NT DEET Indigenous Education information

Inquiry based learning

Beyond Information

Inquiry page

HSC:All my own work A series of self-paced learning modules designed to help Higher School Certificate students to follow ethical research principals & practices.

The Question Mark? an educational journal devoted to questions,
questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading and quality teaching.

Literacy

Funbrain spell check

Language games

Look Cover Write and Check

National Accelerated Literacy Program

Power proofreading

Reading games Room

Read think write

Teachit's library free English teaching resources online

NT DEET Focus on Literacy

Mathematics

Mathematics & numeracy site with links to Aust & international professional associations and websites for Maths teachers.

Multiple Intelligences

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Supportive school environments

Bullying no way! - national shared resource to prevent bullying in schools