home

= = =Welcome to the Dickson College Library wiki=

**Check out the Library's** ** e-resources ** **- look in** **the T drive on PCs or use our brochure** ** : ** **Online Referencing Generator: Harvard style (creates bibliographies)** **Links to ebooks (great for research), Weblinks (excellent websites), Hot Topics (newspaper articles), databases, Oliver library catalogue and TV4Education online video delivery system.**

Oliver is available in the Digital Backpack and can be accessed from anywhere - home or school. The Backpack also has Office 365, Google Classroom and Google Drive.
[|https://backpack.ed.act.edu.au] Also at: [|https://OPAC.ed.act.edu.au]

media type="custom" key="27394402" align="center"


 * [[image:dckclib/P1020909.JPG width="260" height="176"]]

|| media type="custom" key="27580440" media type="custom" key="7308761" or ask this computational knowledge engine: media type="custom" key="7246929" Find resources and databases at NLA: media type="custom" key="6674213" || media type="custom" key="7556153" [|Booko] A very cool Australian site that compares prices of books & DVDs by searching through suppliers from around the world. Choose the price you want and the supplier and see postage costs.


 * < **What's cool?**



"We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken. A tale of love and romance. A tale of tragedy. Which are lies? Which is truth? You decide".

"Stylish, compelling and heartbreaking...the plot twist is breathtakingly successful..." (Guardian)

Click here for more info. ||< ======**Technology, popular culture, film, book & media news**======

**Click here for more information & blog.**

 * Top 200 tools for learning 2016**

collaboration etc. Includes Twitter, Dropbox, Prezi, Scoopit, Evernote, Diigo, PowToon, Canva, Kahoot, Pinterest, Slideshare, Nearpod...
[]

[|http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tooltop100-edu/]
 * Top 100 tools for education**

Bookmark your favourite websites and access them anywhere. Easy! []
 * Only2clicks **

Another easy way to bookmark websites. []
 * Symbaloo**

Put anything you like on your blank wall - notes etc. []
 * Padlet**

A great source of photos - freely available to use. [|www.morguefile.com]
 * MorgueFile**

A wide variety of Creative Commons free music by Kevin MacLeod - search by genre & feel. []
 * Incompetech**

Create your own Quick Response codes. Easy! []
 * QR code generator**

**Click here for more information and blog.**
__**Digital backpack**__
 * Click [|here] - includes Oliver library catalogue, Office 365, Google Drive and Google Classroom.** ||< **What's new?**


 * Non fiction**


 * Steampunk: fantasy art, fiction, fashion, movies - H. Winchester


 * Positive bodies: loving the skin you're in - V. Lewis


 * How music got free - S. Witt


 * Stop think go do: how typography and graphic design influence behaviour - S. Heller


 * The explainer: from deja vu to why the sky is blue - The Conversation


 * Fiction & Autobiography**


 * Certain dark things - M. J. Pack


 * The invisibles - G. Morrison


 * Earth 2: the gathering - J. Robinson

media type="custom" key="7556071" media type="custom" key="902335"
 * The haunting of Hill House - S. Jackson ||

include component="tagCloud"
 * //Search our Tag Cloud://**

include page="include_pagefooter"