• Find an Answer – Australian Copyright Council

  Some answers to copyright questions for Australian teachers and schools.

  tags: copyright answers education

• Through global lenses @wfc | Finland, Florida and Australia

  You may remember reading about Whitefriars College teacher librarian Tania Sheko’s collaborative learning project using Flickr. The project has now concluded and a few of the students have shared their thoughts, reflections and ideas about what they loved most about the project.

  tags: through global lenses education technology learning web2.0 collaboration blog Flickr students

• springfieldreading – home

  By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students in years 9-12 (and their parents) have a head start on the year’s required reading for English classes. Well done to Joyce Valenza for supporting her students in this manner.

  tags: education web2.0 learning libraries technology reading wiki springfieldreading

• Timeglider: Web-based Timeline Software

  What a terrific tool for creating timelines for and with your students!

  tags: timeline web2.0 tools history interactive timeglider education presentation

• SBS: Documentary

  Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. The series reveals astonishing facts about how the web is rewiring our society, our economy and – drawing on a unique experiment conducted specifically for the series – maybe even our brains.The series brings together everyone who’s anyone on the web – from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos; from web pioneers like Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to digital media barons like Arianna Huffington and Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

  tags: documentary technology learning internet virtualrevolution Web2.0 sbs

• Events – Educators’ Guide to Innovation

  Here is a list of upcoming web conference sessions on the Educators’ Guide to Innovation to be held over the next two weeks.

  tags: education technology Web2.0 learning collaboration innovation ning webconferencing

• Mal Lee | An opportunity to discuss with Mal Lee the work he is doing on the evolution of schooling and to make contact.

  The Role of Teacher Librarians in Networked School Communities

  tags: libraries learning education technology schools teacher_librarians Network

• Library – Learning Futures / Learning Spaces Forum

  The Learning Futures / Learning Spaces Forum focused on the changes to the physical and online learning spaces in Australian schools. 

  tags: learning library futures forum BialikCollege design education podcasts technology

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• sallyb – Library Dragon

  St Michael’s Grammar School teacher librarian Sally Bray developed a very good fiction blog and has kindly agreed to share her blogging journey with readers of Bright Ideas.

  tags: dragon library learning books blog reading fiction libraries

• For the Win by Cory Doctorow – Free eBook

  An extremely interesting book looking at the global effects of gaming; much of it is based in fact.

  tags: Forthewin CoryDoctorow gaming freedownload books reading

• monarchlibrary – BookSuggestions

  I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.

  tags: monarchlibrary booksuggestions books reading Googleforms wiki

• RealTime Health – Home

  RealTime Health: the digital health network is a collaboration between The Le@rning Federation, The Chronic Illness Alliance , Aboriginal Medical Service of Western Sydney, Asthma Foundation of Victoria, Australian Hearing, Diabetes Australia – Vic, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, Orygen Youth Health and SANE Australia.

  tags: realtime health network information

• NovaNews

  Bev Novak has been developing an interesting blog. Bev uses her blog as a forum for writing about, processing and sharing her learning with other educators. 

  tags: technology learning libraries education blog tools

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• Watch TV Online | Watch Australian TV Online

  TheAge.tv brings dozens of the world’s best shows to your computer – all for free.

  tags: watch online theage tv video television

• YouTube – DocumentariesOnABC’s Channel

  tags: documentariesonabc youtube abc video learning documentaries

• eT@lking: Retribalizing, Literary Style: Virtual Book Clubs and Bookcast | Bright ideas

  McLuhan predicted we’d have to leave the bookworld behind to be “with it” in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all. Learn about an evolving virtual book club model, online or inworld, that culminates with the screening of collaboratively produced bookcasts, multimedia aesthetic responses to books.

  tags: books reading ebooks bookcasts socialMedia eT@alking CrisCrissman Anne_Mirtschin

• Futurelab: free handbook downloads

  Futurelab are offering free access to digital editions of some of their digital literacy and innovation handbooks.

  tags: futurelab digitalliteracy download handbooks

• IASL/SOFTLINK INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD

  Thanks to Softlink for giving me this award in 2010.

  tags: IASL Softlink libraries schoollibraries awards

• Softlink: Library Management Systems

  Thanks to Softlink for awarding me the IASL/Softlink International Excellence Award for 2010.

  tags: softlink libraries

• National Year of Reading 2012 launch | Bright ideas

  To celebrate International School Libraries Day on Monday 25 October, the School Library Association of Victoria invites you to join in an Elluminate session at 11.00am (AEDST) where we will launch the 2012 National Year of Reading.

  tags: national year reading libraries 2012 books

• Protect, Nurture, Grow with Web2.0

  Mount Eliza Secondary College Librarian Lynn Swannell has developed an excellent presentation for her staff on how using Web 2.0 with students can help ‘protect, nurture and grow’.

  tags: education technology collaboration libraries nurture grow protect

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• Events > Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies > Swinburne University of Technology

  tags: communication events Swinburne ICT girls_and_technology technology learning

• popplet

  A great tool to explore ideas and thoughts visually and collaboratively.

  tags: collaboration popplet visualization sharing mindmap tools education technology communication

• K12 Online Conference 2010

  This fantastic free online conference officially kicks off on October 18th (US time). 

  tags: education Web2.0 collaboration technology k12_online_2010

• Animoto – On the edge of the basalt plain

  tags: animoto PenleighEssendonGrammar libraries schoollibraries

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• International School Library Month (ISLM)

  October is International School Library Month. The theme for 2010 is Diversity, Challenge, Resilience: School libraries have it all.

  tags: libraries schoollibraries ISLM

• YouTube – “I’ll Fight You For The Library” performed by Taylor Mali

  It is rather funny and quite true! It certainly shows how passionate some people are about the school library and I’m sure that many teachers would identify with it

  tags: youtube TaylorMali library libraries schoollibraries

• educational-origami – Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

  Andrew Churches has developed this fantastic interpretation of Bloom’s taxonomy for the digital era.

  tags: bloomstaxonomy blooms taxonomy Web2.0 education digital learning pedagogy

• Digital Citizenship Continuum2 – Google Docs

  The Living Sky School Division in Canada has developed and shared an excellent digital citizenship continuum for students, parents and teachers. 

  tags: digitalcitizenship citizenship curriculum digital continuum information literacy google education

• Library – New Library Building

  tags: library building Bialik teaching libraries

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• Tag Team Tech October 2010

  School library guru Dr Joyce Valenza has written an inspiring post entitled A Manifesto for 21st Century School Librarians. Covering our responsibilities to students.

  tags: joycevalenza schoollibraries advocacy manifesto reading information_landscape communication publishing storytelling collection_development facilities physical_space access equity audience collaboration copyright copyleft information_ethics new_technology

• Nine Elements

  The Digital citizenship: using technology appropriately website has recently published a post on the nine elements of digital citizenship. Each element is described in detail on the site. The elements include:
  Digital etiquetteDigital communicationDigital literacyDigital accessDigital commerceDigital lawDigital rights and responsibilitiesDigital health and well-beingDigital security

  tags: digitalcitizenship digital_citizenship InternetSafety education netiquette Learning

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• Register for the Cyber Summit on 21st Century Readiness « Libraries and Transliteracy

  Some teachers in Australia have holidays beginning next week. So a brilliant time to access the Free Cyber Summit on 21st Century Readiness to be held between September 20 – October 5.

  tags: webinars Cybersummit 21stcenturylearning libraries education

• EdNET Insight | New Research Just Released on School Principals and Social Networking

  tags: research ednet socialNetworking Schools Principals education

• Pages – BecominganeSmartSchool

  The news released on 14 September 2010 that Victorian schools will be able to gain access to funding and support to become eSmart schools is a brilliant step towards cybersafety.

  tags: becominganesmartschool AllanahandMadelineFoundation cybersafety cyberbullying education digitalcitizenship

• KidsTube

  tags: learning videos moderated safe video

• Book Week @ Strathmore SC | Bright ideas

  tags: book week ideas strathmore education books libraries reading technology

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• Gapfillers

  tags: gapfillers english learning education language

• Switch Zoo – Animal Games

  tags: animals science zoo interactive fun Games education technology learning

• Skype an author with Hazel Edwards | Bright ideas

  Recently author Hazel Edwards undertook a ‘Skype an author’ session and book launch with New Zealand librarians.

  tags: skype author libraries reading books technology

• Book Week 2010 @ Whitefriars College | Bright ideas

  Thanks to Rhondda Powling, Head of Library at Whitefriars College and School Library Association of Victoria President for allowing a parallel post from her blog about the success of their Book Week activities this year.

  tags: 2010 book week technology libraries reading books learning education

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• New Book Video Trailer Awards! « NeverEndingSearch

  tags: book video trailer competition SLJ Joyce_Valenza

• SLAV Web Elements Engaged Project | Bright ideas

  For Victorian Schools only.
  Are any of your students and teachers involved in using interesting and innovative online tools?
  Have you been working with students and teachers on copyright, creative commons and Intellectual property?
  Are you interested in helping your students to build online resources to share their discoveries with others? If you answer YES to any or all of the questions above then the SLAV Web Elements Engaged project might be for you. 

  tags: slav web elements education technology learning tools collaboration libraries

• SYN Media Free professional learning | Bright ideas

  Next week sees a number of free professional learning sessions looking at digital tools for learning and teaching.

  tags: free media learning syn technology education

• Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without

  tags: Web2.0 tools websites resources education technology teaching teacher learning

• MeeGenius Library

  tags: books reading personalise share

• National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2010

  tags: literacy national week numeracy 2010 learning reading books

• Indigenous Literacy Day, Wednesday 1 September 2010 | The Indigenous Literacy Project

  Everyone is invited to participate in the fourth Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), Wednesday 1 September 2010.

  tags: indigenous literacy day learning reading

• findingDulcinea | Online Guides | Internet Library | Web Resources

  tags: reference research library search directory web librarian findingdulcinea

• WFC-Learning-together – Year 9 – Truman Show

  Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed some interesting resources to support learning and teaching.

  tags: learning together wfc collaboration libraries Whitefriars_College wiki wordle Truman_Show

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• SBNING – – et nettverk for skolebibliotekinteresserte i Norden

  NING for discussions about the school libraries in the Nordic countries – in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish – and 12 groups in English

  tags: Ning sbning libraries

• Sweet Search

  tags: searchengine search research education resources search engines engine tools Sweet search

• Ping | Home

  Ping is a social networking site that makes learning music fun, simple and accessible, and provides creative musical opportunities for middle year school students in Australia.

  tags: Ping music online learning technology

• IFLA World Report 2010

  For the first time, the World Report is being made available online in a fully searchable database, complete with graphical map interface. By clicking on a country’s marker, you can either select “View individual report”

  tags: ifla 2010 world report libraries

• Our History Blog for Year 7S

  tags: blog history Lowther_Hall Education web2.0 technology learning libraries

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