Research Fundamentals Workshop (Online)

Help your students become more successful researchers with this interactive session presented by State Library Victoria’s education team.

This targeted program explores relevant, practical strategies to motivate middle-year students to adopt more rigorous research practices.

Online workshops are available Tuesday-Thursday during term time at 10.00am, 12.30pm and 2.00pm.

Students will:

• compare and evaluate online sources for credibility and relevance 
• understand the importance of being a critical and creative thinker in today’s world
• develop tips and tricks for effective internet searches

This workshop is suitable for students in Years 7-10 or any secondary classes seeking an introduction to core research skills.

This program links to the Victorian Curriculum and helps students to: 

• analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts (VCELY376) 
• use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources (VCELY378) 
• investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (VCELA402) 
• use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse texts, comparing and evaluating representations of an event, issue, situation or character in different texts (VCELY443) 

More information

For more information about the program, please email [email protected] or call 03 8664 7478.