SLANZA Connected Librarians

This looks good! Not sure if this is for NZ as I can't find terms and conditions.

Click on Graham Bell from Police Ten 7 and listen to him read some of the Wonky Donkey;-- very funny  -- click into the segment to 35:25. It sounds like he's looking for a suspect.

Interesting look at ebooks in school libraries

An interesting and recent article about ebooks in school libraries, with a New Zealand focus.

If you want to do this course it starts on the 18th June 2014 and finished on the 25th June 2014.  Duration: 2 weeks , 10 hours per week. 

Fantastic resource on Digital Citizenship.  Has flyers for parents. Teacher lessons Professional Development

You have to create an account to view. FREE to register. The 21st Century Fluencies are comprised of six main areas: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and Global Digital Citizenship. The main focus of these fluencies is to help instill in today's students a set of unconscious skills to help them survive and thrive in the 21st century and beyond.

Digital Citizenship

Fantastic resource for schools

This article is about the way the digital age is changing the way students are able to read: "We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age. It's both. We have to ask the question: What do we want to preserve?"