HSC resources & more
Below is a collection of selected websites to support your study, research and interests.
Research & Study
NESA (access to NSW Curriculum & Syllabuses, NAPLAN & other resources)
Research guides at the State Library of NSW (helpful guides especially for HSC students)
Australian Government websites
Australian Dictionary of Biography (has over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history. Entries on individuals who died after 1980 will be added as successive volumes of ADB are published by Australian National University)
How to evaluate a Wikipedia article
Study Less Study Smart (a short video with useful study tips)
How to make a revision timetable (video)
Pinterest (the library's Pinterest page)
Spare time?
http://www.internetlivestats.com/ (real time data showing internet usage and impact)
Handy Tips
https://www.printfriendly.com/ (creates a printer friendly version of a web page)
https://safeweb.norton.com/ (use this site to check if a website is safe to use. Note: if you have a short url, you will need to unshorten it first. To unshorten, use site below).
https://unshorten.it/ (use this site to unshorten shortened urls such as as bit.ly urls)
Study Skills
Below is a great collection of articles that will help you with getting your work done, staying healthy and being organised. If you find these helpful, then you can access more great resources through ELES Study Skills Handbook and Study Samurai.
Internet Search Sites
There are many specialty tools that can be used to help you find information on the internet. Below is a selection (listed alphabetically):
Quality search tool with curated resources and links to credible sites.
SweetSearch - a search engine for students
Search engine with filtered results leaves room for critical thinking.
Provides access to world facts, data and calculates answers across a range of topics (it's fascinating to have browse through the site's examples page).
Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)
Archive.org is a non-profit organization that keeps track of public domain movies, audio and text. The Wayback Machine crawls websites and keeps snapshots of sites it visits (it's not 100% comprehensive but years of history of major sites is available).
AI Tools for study and learning
There are many new and emerging AI tools that can be used in a variety of ways to support your learning. Use of these tools must be ethical and appropriate to deepen your knowledge and understanding and to support your learning process. If you are submitting work for assessment, you should appropriately acknowledge when you have used AI. Your teacher and teacher-librarian can provide guidance regarding how these tools may be applied and used in an appropriate manner for your studies.
Here's a few tools which you may find useful:
Ask a question and perplexity.ai will provide a response which you can further query (similar to ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs). In addition, websites and sources are provided and users can sign in or enter queries anonymously.