Ria Coffey from St Patricks College (SPC) in Ballarat talks about a simple but effective way to support broader staff use of technology and to increase the library’s profile in your school. As part of our library’s strategy to be … Continue reading
Two new videos from the VCE Advantage series. These two fantastic vodcasts contributed by Di Ruffles, from Melbourne High School, are perfect for VCE students but also for students at any secondary level. They will instantly improve online searching strategies! … Continue reading
The Recognising Innovation site shows the videos that have been entered into the $100K Follett Challenge. This challenge consists of the education community promoting the role that school libraries play in encouraging and developing information literacy and student engagement, in the form of a video. You … Continue reading
Barbara Braxton is an award winnng teacher librarian from Cooma, who has spent her time in schools in the ACT where she developed a primary school library that Jackie French once described as “the best I’ve ever seen”. In 2003, Barbara was … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Helen Boelens, from the ENSIL Foundation (European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy) has kindly passed on the following information that readers will be interested in: On 9 August, an IFLA satellite conference about the future of school librarianship … Continue reading
This is a great idea! Adventures in library instruction is a monthly hour long podcast (available in mp3) “about teaching information literacy in libraries.” School and University librarians are often interviewed and a range of topics including technology and assessment are … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Recently Alan November spoke at the ACEC2010 Conference. On his ‘soapbox’ he discussed how teachers who want to use technology in the curriculum can help to encourage and make change within their schools. It is the role of the Principal … Continue reading
This is an interesting take on what we are all trying to address. Rather than think of what we are teaching as information literacy, this project applies the term 21st Century fluency. The site explains its aims: This resource is … Continue reading