Edtechkat

I *love* the iResearch interactive materials produced by the librarians at Uni of Sydney. http://elearning.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php

• See the dinosaurs show you how to “Search Smarter, Search Faster” http://elearning.library.usyd.edu.au/learn/topic/index.php

• Ask the mice for help with citations as you play Find the Cheese! http://elearning.library.usyd.edu.au/learn/readinglist/gamefindthatcheese/index.php

• Win a $60 Campus Coop book voucher for rearranging the books and getting the highest monthly score in the Bookshoot game. http://elearning.library.usyd.edu.au/learn/readinglist/gamefindthatcheese/index.php

What I like about these is that it looks like the content and concepts were designed by their regular liaison librarians, not super-duper wonder-people. I think they work because the librarians have pared down the absolute core concept that the user needs to learn and then built on that, rather than starting with “hey, lets see what we can do with a cool flash interface”. There has obviously been some serious $$ thrown at the project as well.