Online Resources for Kids
Libraries ACT has a range of learning based electronic resources available for children that are fun and entertaining. For school aged children and young adults there is a great range of e-books and homework help resources.
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 | Click here to go to LiteracyPlanet |
Literacy Planet encourages the learning of essential English literacy skills through a
motivational learning platform that is fun, compelling and addictive for students of all ages and ability. Because you can track your progress through LiteracyPlanet you need to enter some of your details. Please go to "New Users Click Here". You are then sent login details. |
 | Click here to go to Story Box Library | Story Box Library features engaging online Australian stories read by some of Australia's finest storytellers. Our stories are a little bit cheeky, a little bit charming and a whole lot of fun! |
 | Click here to go to Busy Things | Over 240 fun, colourful and eductational games for young children aged 3-7 |
 | Click here to to to Tumblebooks -Online books, audiobooks and games | Online books, videos, games and learning activities for young children |
eBooks for Kids
Online Resource | About |
| eBooks for Kids - Overdrive | eBooks are in ePub or Adobe Reader format |
| eAudiobooks for Kids - Overdrive | eAudioBooks are in MP3 or WMA format |
| eBooks for Young Adults - Overdrive | eBooks are in ePub or Adobe Reader format |
| eAudiobooks for Young Adults - Overdrive | eAudioBooks are in MP3 or WMA format |
Online Homework Resources
Online Resource | About |
| ANZ Points of View Reference Centre | This database offers up-to-date and diverse information about a range of current social issues in an Australian/New Zealand context. Each topic is supported by a subject overview, a range of viewpoints a nd research guides. Sources include: magazines, Aus/NZ newspapers and radio/TV news transcripts |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | The classic encyclopaedia online - includes a student and junior editions. |
Educational Resources (from India)
| Name of the program | Brief Description |
National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
Accessible at: http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in
| NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware. |
Talk to A Teacher
Accessible at: http://co-learn.in/
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| The following are the initiatives under “Talk to the Teacher” | |
(i) Ask a Question
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Ask A Question is a unique platform through which students from science and engineering colleges all over India can ask questions and faculty from IIT Bombay answers them. Students can ask questions either through an online forum or during an interactive live session, held every Thursday from 4:00 P.M to 5:00 P.M.
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(ii) Courses on View
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Engineering and Science courses recorded live in the classrooms of IIT Bombay are now available for everyone.
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(iii) Spoken Tutorial
| Portal offers tutorials in multiple languages on various free-and-open-source software. Interested users may add their tutorials in any language of their choice. |
(iv) A-View
Offers two components:
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| A-VIEW Classroom |
A-VIEW Classroom is a framework that provides a rich interactive social environment for E-Learning. It is simple, user friendly video conferencing software, which provides a great opportunity to a teacher to teach in a live interactive mode to various geographical locations across India.
A-VIEW Classroom provides opportunity to connect several universities together and creates virtual world for students. It also acts as a Knowledge Cafe where students can discuss /chat about the lecture after the live class.
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A-VIEW Meeting
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A-VIEW Meeting is essentially a conference center where meeting halls have no walls. It enables your colleagues from across the globe to interact face-to-face with you electronically and conduct live meetings, presentations or training from the comfort of their desks. A-VIEW Meeting is currently used by senior officials in the Ministry of Human Resource Development for their communications with organizations all over the world.
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| Virtual Labs | Accessible at: http://www.vlab.co.in/ |
To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.
To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distances.
To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self evaluation.
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| Teacher Portal ( Class room resources) | http://www.teachersofindia.org/en |
| National Repository of Open Education | http://nroer.gov.in/home/ |
| Future learn | www.futurelearn.com |
Educational Resources (from Overseas)