Finding out about immigrant groups and refugees

Community Profiles: Immigrant and Refugee Communities in Australia

This website provides great links to current information about how 160 immigrant and refugee communities are operating in Australia

http://www.vtpu.org.au/resources/communityprofiles.php

Content for each community may include demographic information about the communities in Australia, cultural information such as religious beliefs and traditional practices, mental health information where available, and historical and economic background in the home country.

Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Mind mapping

Mind mapping
Need to use a mind mapping tool? Lyndon Sharp from the NSW Board of Studies recommends the http://bubbl.us/ website for on-line mind mapping. What is this site? - Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. Why use bubbl.us? - Because you can: Create colorful mind maps online, Share and work with friends, Embed your mind map in your blog or website, Email and print your mind map, Save your mind map as an image, brainstorming made simple
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Bibliography Help

At a recent 2008 HSC seminar Lyndon Sharp from the NSW Board of Studies recommended that senior students use the www.noodletools.com website for making bibliographies. NoodleBib is available on the site and is a comprehensive and accurate bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Need help to do a survey or take a poll?

Need help to do a survey? Lyndon Sharp from the NSW Board of Studies recommends that students use http://www.surveymonkey.com/ to undertake surveys for such school assignments as the Senior Geography project. This site not only helps you design the survey but also analyzes the results with graphs and charts.

Need help to take a poll? also recommended from Lyndon is http://www.polldaddy.com/ for high school students to use to make and analyse polls.

Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Year 12 Geography ecosystems - The Great Barrier Reef

If you have chosen the Great Barrier Reef then the following websites are recommended.

• http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site The best site for information on the Great Barrier Reef, all aspects of the syllabus are covered.
  • http://www.wri.org/project/coral-reefs A useful site for threats, mapping of reef areas under threat and information on management
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Year 11 Geography tips - Global challenges

These websites are recommended for year 11 students doing Global Challenge subjects• http://hdr.undp.org/en/An excellent source on population statistics, development trends, climate change and the implications for development.
• http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html A source that builds up spatial awareness of production and consumption of the worlds resources.
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

New settlers in Australia

Community Profiles - new settlers in Australia
This series has been developed to assist in understanding the backgrounds and needs of Humanitarian programme arrivals in Australia. They contain information on demographics, settlement locations, and cultural backgrounds - at the moment Burmese, Congolese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Liberian, Sudanese, Togolese and Uzbek are available but more wil be added. Find these reports (in PDF format) on http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/delivering-assistance/government-programs/settlement-planning/community-profiles.htm OR http://www.immi.gov.au/ then select "Living in Australia" then "Delivering Assistance" then Programmes (tab) then "Settlement Planning", then "Community Profiles"
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly