Edubeacon

It’s fascinating to read about the trial distribution of Kindle ebook readers to school age children in Ghana.  The non-profit organisation at the centre of the project, Worldreader, was co-founded by David Risher, a former Amazon senior vice president.  We’ve seen how mobile phones and Nicholas Negroponte’s  one-laptop-per-child project have changed the face of learning and connectivity [...]

The Wheeler Centre is a new, online cultural organisation that commenced this year.  It’s a Victorian government initiative and comes from the declaration of Melbourne as a UNESCO City of Literature.  It provides all of us with access to the rich range of resources that come through the Centre’s focus on ‘books, writing and ideas’.   [...]

I’m finally getting around to posting one of the teacher library (library media specialist) sessions attended at NECC. The NECC Remixing: Library 2.5 wiki has a UStream video link presentation of the live audio which is worth listening to.  Joyce Valenza was particularly interesting as she is passionate about the need for school libraries to [...]

There are an amazing number of applications becoming available that make it very easy to convert written text into voice recordings.  Think about your students and imagine if they could use this for: assisting with reading difficulties, at any level, any age group listening to an oral presentation before they deliver it to check how [...]

Boys reading is regularly a topic of discussion amongst teachers and teacher-librarians. Increasingly, however, the question is being reflected back onto what we are actually presenting to boys as reading material. The introduction of graphic novels into school libraries is being embraced as the boys latch onto them with enthusiasm and go marching out the [...]