Category Archives: Research
5 Tips for Reading Academic Research
Students at Mount Alvernia College across year levels and learning areas are currently engaged in tasks that require them to use academic research. Teacher Librarians have been doing a lot of sessions with classes taking them through the process of
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Ready to Research
It’s research season! Across the college, students from a range of Learning Areas are in the process of conducting research. Specifically, Teacher Librarians are working with senior and junior classes in Science and Humanities. Teacher Librarian, Krystal Gagen-Spriggs, put together the
Read MoreResources for Year 8 Humanities Research: Medieval Europe
The iCentre has some excellent resources to assist Year 8 students with their research on Medieval Europe. Topics for this task include: The Medieval Knight The Crusades Charlemagne Women of the Middle Ages The Black Death A search of the
Read MoreResearch: Let Us Help You
If you are in the process of completing a research task, don’t forget that the iCentre team are here to help. Regardless of what subject you are researching, here are some of the ways that we can assist: Getting
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Access to NEWSPAPERS at Mt Alvernia College
Attention students We have a new way of accessing Australian newspaper articles at Mt A. This subscription allows you to access today’s articles and back issues from twelve of the country’s newspapers through the Mount Alvernia College iCentre in FIVE
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Referencing & CiteMaker Update
The referencing style used at Mount Alvernia College is APA referencing. Recently, APA has updated to the 7th edition involving several style changes. Teacher Librarians will be working with teaching staff and classes to inform our researchers about the changes
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iCentre Service Available for Students
Students are reminded to use the ASK A LIBRARIAN feature that is available on the iCentre website. This is good for students across all curriculum areas who are working on assignments at home and need assistance in finding reliable information
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Referencing @ Mt A
It’s timely at this time of the term to remind teachers and students that they can use the information below about Referencing @MtA as well as our iCentre Tutorials with instructions of how to use CiteMaker, to support their research
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Research – How the iCentre Can Help
To assist students with the research expectations of the ATAR curriculum, the iCentre is working with Learning Area Advisors and subject teachers to develop Research Guides. Research Guides are also being developed for Junior grades so that younger students
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Video Resources via ClickView
Think beyond books for learning. Students can use video information as a research source and broaden their understanding of topics covered in class. The college subscribes to Clickview so that students have engaging and relevant video resources. These are curated
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