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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 [...]

There is no shortage of opportunities being presented for teacher librarians to come help them come to grips with Web 2.0 resources and function.  As we begin a new school year James Henri and Sandra Lee from YourSchoolLibrary are presenting ’21st Century Learning: professional development to transform school libraries with Web 2.0′. This online professional [...]

Another good ICTEV Conference at Melbourne Grammar School.  I like the location of this conference as well as the easy layout.  It’s always possible to come away with something useful to apply to the classroom. I presented a workshop session this morning introducing Bloglines and Del.icio.us as research support tools. I got to use these tool [...]

So often we hear the lament that colleagues feel overwhelmed by the pressure to keep up with the game in the rapidly evolving education and library scene.  No time, don’t know where to look.  David Warlick has written and excellent article on his blog this week entitled The path to becoming a literate educator Take [...]

I had some success this week.  While participating in one of the CoSN webcast entitled ‘Think before you ban: How classrooms become communities with Web 2.0 technology’ on 16 January (US time) – that was 5.00 am on 17 January Australian time – I recognised the site VoiceThread as one that I’ve been trying to relocate for [...]

It’s been a good week for spreading knowledge on integrating new technologies with many teachers thinking for forward planning for 2008. One of our LOTE teachers whose classes have been communicating with an Italian school via ePals wanted to send a video to finish up the year but didn’t have the video editing skills.  We had a [...]

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 [...]

This morning I went in search of a Radio National interview that I missed last week with the British author of The Cult of the Amateur , Andrew Keen.    Listened to it as a podcast direct from the ABC site but then I decided to do a further search and found it on Youtube as a [...]

There is so much happening out there on the web these days but still so many people are struggling to keep up. Recently I was interested to come across the Californina School Library Association 23 things website. The purpose of this site it to enable you to work through various skills week by week until [...]

IMSA (Illinois Maths & Science Academy) have produced a new website to assist the process of developing digital literacy. IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project has only been operating a few months and has already covered numerous topics relating to the use of Web 2.0 resources and the web in general. Register for full access [...]