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We had a successful meeting the other night where teacher librarians got together to talk about how they are creating maker spaces in their libraries. The ideas and approaches vary widely but they ...

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Ideas for library displays on this page.

"Share and discuss your ideas, documents and concepts visually in one place rather than exchanging endless e-mail attachments."

"Pinterest is straightforward and doesn't require a lot of technological experience to get started. Educators should review their school district's policies to make sure they are in compliance before opening a Pinterest account as it is a public site and any ideas that are "pinned" may be re-pinned to another user's site. In order to create a Pinterest group for a course you are teaching, you will need to do the following:"

"Project-based learning (PBL) is a method used to cultivate learning and teach students 21st century skills. The idea is "built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation," and "generally reflect the types of learning and work people do in everyday world outside the classroom" (pbl-online.org). During project-based learning, students are approached with a complex question, problem, or challenge, which they respond to through a lengthy process of analysis and reflection. These projects are carefully planned, managed, and evaluated-and in the end students have created a high-quality, meaningful product."

"A primary school teacher sharing resources, practical ideas and thoughts on blogging, global collaboration and technology integration."

The Understanding by Design® framework (UbD™ framework) offers a planning process and structure to guide curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Its two key ideas are contained in the title: 1) focus on teaching and assessing for understanding and learning transfer, and 2) design curriculum "backward" from those ends.

Livebinders are a way of collecting together in one place any number of websites on a particular topic. This one has lots of ideas for incorporating Google Earth into the curriculum.

A PLN is one of the best ways to grow as a learner and teacher because you are exposed to so many new ideas and teaching resources.

"Creativity is all about ideas, not software. The software you use in your classroom should amplify your students' creativity, not inhibit it. Our easy-to-use, yet powerful, scrapbooks will unleash your students' creativity like you couldn't imagine. There are no limits to what they can create on Beeclip EDU. "

Lesson ideas for schools using iPads

An extensive list of links for teachers, including lesson plan ideas.

A fantastic idea to combine Book Week and Science Week!

A unit of work for upper primary students, including ideas for a class camp related to the book.

This is a site where teachers can upload lesson plans and lesson ideas which directly correlate with the Australian Curriculum.

"The importance of infographics in literacy education is essential. Literacy is more than just reading and writing. Literate people can infer meaning, communicate with others, and capture ideas in many different ways. With infographics, I hope that educators can broaden our students' visual literacy."

The National Yearof Reading launch is this week. To celebrate reading and make our fiction more user friendly we are rearranging it into popular genres. We already have an extensive Graphic novel collection which is housed separately and which has proved to be very popular both for casual in house reading and borrowing. It is brightly labelled and easy to find and browse so we decided to extend this idea to the rest of the fiction collection.

"five general questions to help make sure that these tools truly have you covered or to facilitate a discussion with a group of colleagues. The ideas and questions are meant to spark discussion, get your wheels spinning, and hopefully help you and the educators you work with make decisions about thoughtful technology integration."