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School Library Association of Victoria is holding a one day conference Make, share do: active online learning in Melbourne on Friday 30th July and featuring acclaimed US school library professional, Joyce Valenza. Although this is Joyce’s first visit to Australia, she is well known within the school library network and a member of many of [...]

Today’s SLAV conference was a major step forward in putting the social media of the Internet into practice and leading by example.  It  was planned as an interactive event where speakers would be blogged into –  Celebrate Change: Let’s make the whole school a library! I took up that challenge to blog while Judith Way [...]

Yesterday I attended the SLAV conference – Perspectives on Learning V2.  As the main presenter for the day, Will Richardson continued the message he delivered in 2008, encouraging educators to collaborate and communicate globally to build their personal learning networks and to develop an awareness of the changing nature of literacy both in ourselves and [...]

Monday’s SLAV conference ‘Re-imagining – Web 2.0 applications and implications’ at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome was a great success. Will Richardson of Weblogg-Ed was an inspirational keynote.  Having met him at NECC Philadelphia in 2005, I was interested to discuss where blogging and Web 2.0 had come since then.  Like so many of us, he would never [...]

Yesterday I presented a podcasting session at the School Libray Assoc of Victoria, library technicians & assistants conference in Melbourne.  Attendance at the conference was a clear indication of the support structure behind school libraries, being exceptionally well attended.  Many of these staff have the daunting responsibility of actually running school libraries these days so SLAV is fulfilling a real [...]

Podcasting hype has hit schools.  This is good because out of a lot of hype you will get a medium amount of application.  I ran a 5 hour podcasting workshop with ten of our teachers this week which will definitely get some of them on the road.  Podcasting is a powerful learning and teaching tool [...]

Yesterday I presented a session at the VITTA/SLAV ’Live to Learn: Learn to Blog’ conference held at Ivanhoe Grammar and have embedded it on this page for easy access.  It was a good mini conference and an opportunity to catch up with members of the the technology in education community, both ICT teachers and teacher-librarians.  I [...]

Having attended the School Library Assoc Victoria (SLAV) last Friday and then the Victorian Info Tech Teacher’s Accoc (VITTA) it’s interesting to see the impact of the VELS curriculum reform. SLAV have equipped T-Ls and the schools with the production of the CD-ROMs Making a Difference: research guide and Researching together: Engaging minds. Making a [...]