AudioPal
AudioPal is a free website that enables you to easily add audio to your blog or website. AudioPal homepage Users can record and use their own voice on their website, or select from numerous voices available on AudioPal. If you select…
Feature wiki – gaming4learning @ PGSC
Preston Girls’ Secondary College teacher librarian Judith Way was recently one teacher selected by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development‘s KnowledgeBank: Next Generation branch to trial gaming in schools. Judith explains: In term 2, 2009 (April-June) selected schools in…
VCE faces axe for national education certificate
An interesting article in today’s Herald Sun: Laurie Nowell and Stephen Drill, August 30, 2009 12:00am VICTORIA’S VCE is set to be replaced by a national education certificate as schools move to an Australia-wide curriculum for years 11 and 12….
Academic Earth – videos from the world’s top scholars
Academic Earth provides free videos from some of the world’s top scholars. Universities that provide content are: Berkeley Harvard MIT NIH Princeton Stanford UCLA Yale Subjects covered include: Astronomy Biology Chemistry Computer Science Economics Engineering English Entrepreneurship History Law Mathematics Medicine…
Web 2.0 Guru
The Web 2.0 Guru wiki is worth a visit. With the top 10 Web 2.0 tools for classes listed as well as all tools broken down into categories, this is a handy site. Top 10 Web 2.0 Must Haves for…
SLAV Awards
Thanks to Mary Manning for this text: SLAV News Each year, the School Library Association of Victoria celebrates International School Libraries Day by recognising the excellence and innovation of Victorian teacher-librarians, school library teams, research and school leaders. Applications for…
Infloox
Infloox is a website with an interesting idea. Introducing infloox™, the website on influential people’s influential books! Let’s say you are interested in Agatha Christie! infloox™ allows you to find: her favourite books or authors; the most famous readers of…
ePals
ePals promotes itself as ‘the internet’s largest global community of connected classrooms. It is a free resource that offers collaborative school projects, eMentoring as well as ‘ePals on the web’. Homepage From the website comes the following information: The Social Network…
ISLM Bookmark Project update
Rick Mulholland, the International School Library Month Bookmark coordinator, is seeking more participants for the project: Once again the ISLM committee is organizing a bookmark exchange project. Currently, we have a shortage of participants from outside of North America. The…
Fun activities @ your library!!
Helen Boelens has passed on the following website which may give you ideas and inspirations for library activities. The Amercian Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children has a long list of activities that can be used or adapted…
