Google+&+Beyond+ASLA+2010


 * Australian School Library Association (NSW) Course "Google and Beyond" was presented by John Clear of Association of Independent Schools (AIS) on 21st August, 2010, at The King's School, Parramatta. **

AIS open PD site [|http://www.aisnsw.edu.au/pd]

Participants from the day can access the course site for full links and notes from the day. A few key learnings gleaned are outlined here. My tweets from the day: **Flickr Creative Commons**

From this page your can see the different categories of creative commons pictures available on Flickr. Choose a suitable pool to go to the next page where you can search within these. [Apart from anything else, I learned that you can crop within Word and ppt, and that you can save ppt slides as image files.]
 * Search for an uncommon animal you are studying and find a good creative commons picture.
 * Choose the original size of the picture to see a high definition & very close up picture where minute detail can be examined. (e.g. this Short beaked echidna by Arthur Chapman)
 * You can download the picture from Flickr, but can also try this: Copy image and paste to PowerPoint or other office doc; crop if necessary using office cropping tool; save as the slide or slides as image files (eg jpg) and add the attribution to the file name.

**Google News Archive**
To quote the source: "**News archive search** provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

Marita Thomson August 2010