Real libraries vs Fake News – SLAV Conference
School Library Assoc of Vic commenced 2018 by welcoming Dr Susan La Marca to the helm as Executive Officer of the Association. Susan, a well known and respected member of the school library community both within Australia and internationally, has led the…
ImageCodr: Easy Attribution for Flickr CC Photos
Correctly citing an image with a Creative Commons licence can be a tricky task for both educators and their students. ImageCodr is a website that aims to help by providing a generator that will construct attributions for Flickr Creative Commons…
Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians
School library guru Dr Joyce Valenza has written an inspiring post entitled A Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians. Covering our responsibilities to students regarding: reading information landscape communication and publishing and storytelling collection development facilities, your physical space access,…
Songsmith: create your own songs
This free new trial Microsoft download is attempting to take on Apple’s excellent Garageband, and is a great way for students to create copyright free music quickly and easily. This download is a trial and enables users a total of…
Digital Citizenship wiki
A very useful resource is the Digital Citizenship wiki, which caters for students in grades 1-12. The wiki explains more: This is a resource for grade level teachers to prepare students to use technology appropriately and being mindful of the…
‘Cheaper’ books, but at what cost?
Both The Age and The Australian are reporting today on the Productivity Commission‘s decision to advise the Federal Government to implement it’s recommendations in yesterday’s report. Publishers fight cheap books Jason Steger July 15, 2009 “We won’t have Australian authors…
Libraries become the hip place to be
Interesting article in Sunday’s Age (the print headline was “Just quietly, libraries have become the place to be”, happily the online version is not so hung up with the ‘shush’ stereotype) on the growing popularity of libraries, including school and…
Picsearch
Picsearch is an interesting way to search for images (including clip art) on the web. It has three features that make it unique. The first feature is that it has a ‘Family Friendly’ filter that is supposed to filter out any offensive…
Feature wiki – Samaritan Catholic College, Preston
Lynda Santolin, ILC Co-ordinator at Preston’s Samaritan Catholic College has spent time since completing the SLAV Web 2.0 course earlier this year developing numerous tools for teaching and learning. She has also led a staff PD introducing them to the…
MahShelf
Graphic novel lovers of the world unite! MahShelf is a social network that allows users not only to create their own graphic novel library, but also to publish their own graphic novels to the site. MahShelf home It is heartening to…