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Welcome to www.kidcyber.com.au, a website established in 1999 for primary students and teachers.
We provide:
Easy to understand text for student
research, including material for primary school students K-6
Easy to navigate format
Units of work and lesson plans for teachers
on a variety of topics in key
learning areas
kidcyberQuests: student webquest assignments with links to information
sites for research, project ideas, evaluation
'Ask a kidcyber Researcher' feature
where students can request specific information about a topic
Advice to parents about helping with
school homework assignments and projects
kidcyber is written and maintained by a primary
teacher and primary teacher-librarian, Shirley Sydenham and Ron
Thomas. We are authors of numerous books for teachers and kids
published in Australia and overseas.
Our Audience
In the first
half of September 2003 there were 14034 unique visitors to kidcyber and a total of 20313 visitors (source
AWSTATS http://awstats.sourceforge.net/).
August 2003
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Accolades
Just some of the feedback we have received....
From Teachers and Teacher Librarians....
I am an avid user of your website .... As there was an address
for "feedback" I thought I would let you know that my
kids really like your site and I find it useful and useable!
I have used your website often with my students - it is a wonderful
resource.
I am a teacher librarian at a Sydney primary school and found the kidcyber site an invaluable teaching tool. The language was at the students' level and the graphics were excellent. The subject matter was very relevant and supportive of our NSW curriculum and there was a wonderful variety of information.
Well done on producing a very helpful site for primary students. It is clear to read, easy for students to locate information and just enough data to help some of the more "challenging" students to do some research by themselves! Like your many books, a great resource!
This is a really fabulous site. Congratulations to all concerned !
Thank you for providing such a fantastic site. We are really impressed with the KidcyberQuest on Indonesia and would like permission to link to your site from our school intranet for the students to access.
From Special Education teachers....
I'm using your site for an Olympic Unit
for my special ed class. The text
and graphics are perfect. Can't wait to see your new themes. Keep
up the
the great work.
We have been using the site since the
start of the year and ahve found it
extremely useful as most of our students have reading and comprehension
difficulties.
From Students...
Thank you very much for all this information It is much more than
I have
expected, most of the information that you gave me I didn't know
before.
I will enjoy doing this project with all the material you have
given to me
as well as material from other books and the Encyclopedia.
I have just found this site while trying
to find some information on Australia for a school project.
This site is fantastic, it has all the information that I need
that I can understand, some of the government sites I could not
follow and was way too hard. Thankyou very much for this great
site, I will be coming back here often. Also I am going to tell
my teacher and my class mates about it.
THANKYOU
so much for your wonderful help for my assignment. I used all
the sites and gathered plenty of information. Hopefully, my assignment
will go well.
I am in Yr 9. Although some of the info was quite easy, it gave
us a good simple outline for our summary sheet. I discovered your
site from my brother who is in Yr 3. He was doing a project on
the Human Body and gathered some great facts from your site. I
decided it would be good to just give it a try to get some extra
information.
We are very pleased to tell you that we won our debate. Thankyou
very much for your help - we could not have done
it without you.
I am in the 9th grade in Vero Beach, Florida. Your information
was very helpful. Just want you to know that I got an "A"
on my project about Koalas.
Thank you again,
From Parents....
I have just finished reading an article "Secrets of A+ Parents"
[Readers' Digest Feb 2003] and noted your website.We have
a 4 yr old daughter who is full of questions and is always wanting
to look up books to see pictures and get info on various topics.
Her favourites at the moment are volcanos and the ocean.I was
delighted to find your site with great pictures and info to show
her.
We have put this in favourites as I'm sure it will be well used
especially next year when she starts school. It is a great website
and we just wanted to say thankyou for providing such a great
learning tool.Keep up the good work it is really appreciated.
I use this site weekly for my daughter
who is in Y2 for her projects every week. I think this sight is
fantastic as my daughter loves the big print and pictures.
This is Jackson's dad. I decided to check my email before shutting
down the computer for the night and was very impressed to see
that you had replied to his email so promptly. I am sure that
he will be get a real kick out of getting his very first email.
Thank you for putting a smile on my son's face (well in the morning
anyway) and good luck.
The Age Newspaper, Icon :
Make the grade
By Maria Nguyen
January 31 2003
Readers' Digest Feb 2003
Secrets of A+ Parents
us@kidcyber.com.auWe welcome your feedback. Let us know how we're doing.
Is the content OK? What topics would you like to see added?