Ian Thorpe’s efforts to improve indigenous literacy
Lovely article about Ian Thorpe’s endeavours to improve indigenous literacy in yesterday’s Herald Sun: A TINY six-seater plane lands on a dusty runway, somewhere east of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Out leaps swimming superstar Ian Thorpe with a precious…
Reading for Life
Reading for Life is a website run by the UK’s National Literacy Trust, ‘an independent charity that changes lives through literacy’. There are pages for readers, practitioners and families and adults. The site explains what is contains: What’s On the…
LiveBinders
Livebinders is a free site and bills itself as ‘The knowledge sharing place’. It is a type of online binder where a number of websites can be ‘put inside’ the binder as a collection. Two great examples of use would be…
Australian Children’s Literature Alliance
The Australian Children’s Literature Alliance is a relatively new organisation that aims to promote all things reading. From their website comes the following information: The Australian Children’s Literature Alliance is an independent, not-for-profit organisation founded in 2008 to champion and…
eSchool News
eSchool News is a US publication for K-20 educators. Currently they are offering free subscriptions for interested teachers. Click on the image below to register for newsletters to be delivered to your inbox. Although US oriented, there are plenty of interesting articles…
Who am I? Rowville SC is a SLAV/Connect Web 2.0 winner!
Michele Berner, English teacher and e-learning coach and Katherin Grelis, Teacher Librarian at Rowville Secondary College have developed a winning way with Web 2.0. As joint winners of this year’s SLAV/Connect Web 2.0 competition, Michele and Katherin have devised an exciting and…
Need to remember something? Corkboard it!
The inspiring Clay Shirky is an advisor to the people who have developed the interesting tool, Corkboard. The website states that ‘Corkboard makes it easy to keep track of, recommend and discover the things you love.’ To discover exactly how Corkboard…
BBC teachers
The BBC have done it again with a fabulous website for learning and teaching. BBC teachers has a raft of information for teachers and students including: video clips on BBC programs podcasts lesson plans worksheets BBC iPlayer news languages links, activities and…
Grubba
If you are in need of a free database, then Grubba might be your answer. It bills itself as ‘similar to MS Access and FileMaker Pro’, both which cost $$. The Grubba website says, “Choose a template or create your own forms and…
