WatchKnow
WatchKnow is an organised collection of videos for children. As the site explains Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory,…
Supporting learning through reading lists
Librarian extraordinaire Dr Joyce Valenza has (yet another) great idea for supporting and encouraging reading in her school. By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students…
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,…
Book Video Trailer Awards
Have you and/or your students created a book trailer? If so, you could be in line for an award. A couple of days ago, Joyce Valenza blogged about the New Book Video Trailer Awards to be held by the School…
Reading 2.0 by Dr Joyce Valenza
The second of Dr Joyce Valenza’s sessions at the School Library Association of Victoria Make, Share, Do conference held on Friday 30th July focused on the use of social media to promote reading. Library20 View more presentations from joycevalenza. With…
Dr Joyce Valenza @ SLAV
On Friday 30th July, hundreds of educators packed the School Library Association of Victoria Make, Share, Do conference held at the Olympic Room at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to hear groundbreaking teacher librarian Dr Joyce Valenza speak about Library 2.0….
New tools workshop wiki
Joyce Valenza has done it again. This time she and David Warlick have created a vibrant and informative wiki that showcases new social media tools for learning. With pages covering topics such as: WallWisherIdeas Backchannel PlayaroundPage What is 2.0? Learning…
Pathfinder swap
We’ve all done pathfinders for our students. They take quite a bit of time, but they are so useful to point students (and teachers) in the right direction when researching a topic. Now teacher librarian Dr Joyce Valenza has come…
Cooperative Library Instruction Project resources
The Cooperative Library Instruction Project resources is a fantastic website with tutorials for students on internet use, searching, citations and more. The website explains it origins: CLIP is a partnership between Western Oregon University, Oregon State University, Willamette University, and…
