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Westcourt iCentre: Digital Resources and Tools

Middle & Senior School Library Home

Clickview

SEARCH our digital video library anytime and from anywhere.

 

Screen Australia also has an extensive collection of videos

Librivox makes all books in the public domain available as audiobooks. It's free!

AustLit

 

Study Skills Handbook

The Study Skills Handbook website is an online resource with units students can work through to develop their study skills.

Username: ATC

Password: 60achieve

General Resources

Education Perfect - a learning platform for STEM & Humanities - watch some useful tutorials here and find help here

ABC Education- a fabulous range of educational resources for all subject areas to Year 10

Scootle - database with access to more than 20,000 quality-assured digital learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

Turnitin - plagiarism checking tool

Tutor2U - UK based resource for Humanities & STEM subjects [you will need to create a free logon]

OneNote - become an expert

Microsoft Teams - training site

Clickview - tips on using this resource to teach remotely

Newspapers

 

 

 

     

 

      

Textbooks

Free Online Tools

 
Need to create a presentation? 
Why not use some of these tools to make your work pop!
 
PREZI - a web-based zooming presentation tool POWTOON - create an animated presentation
FLIPSNACK - create an online book or magazine E-MAZE - beautiful presentation tool
POPPLET - online mind-mapping tool WORDLE - create a word cloud
STORYBOARD THAT - plan and create a multi-modal presentation TAGXEDO - create an image word cloud
VOKI  - create your own talking avatar QR CODE CREATOR - use a code to connect to your presentation
SWAY - alternative tool to Powerpoint on your dashboard KAHOOT - create an inter-active game

AUDIO & MUSIC TOOLS

It's always better with sound....use music, soundtrack, voice and sound effects.

ZAPSPLAT - free sound effects library FREESOUND  - another free sounds effects library
INCOMPETECH - music files can be found here PURPLE PLANET - royalty-free music
AUDACITY - use your own voice or mash sounds together with this tool JAMENDO - more music files here

Poster Tools

Be creative. Yes you can use Publisher to create a print poster...but why not try some of these other cool tools.

Poster My Wall VisMe - tool for creating info posters
Piktochart - info graphic creator Posterini - poster tool
Block Poster - create huge posters Easel.ly - info graphic tool
Infogram - info graphic tool Canva - desing beautiful posters and infographs
   

Multi-modal Tools

You can create some professional looking presentation by using some of these tools...

Animoto - make professional looking videos Videoscribe - video tool
Powtoon - animated presentation Voicethread - add your voice to any image
ThingLink - Make your image come alive by adding text, video, images, music
 
Sutori - create and share visual stories