SLAVConnects

From the #TLChat Virtual Cafe webinar series: Shelly Terrell & Jake Duncan. Diverse conversation about education and schools from experienced and inspirational educators. You can view, listen/watch the webinar via the link to the recorded Blackboard session.

Post about audiobooks. The author listens whilst they are walking, driving, working, gardening - basically, whenever allows. A few favourites listed with some videos from youtube accompany the descriptions.

Esoecially for proimary schools. A lot of simple ideas that could be used in library situations - with students or adapted for displays

This article challenges the status quo which reveals that most schools are studying very few books by female authors and that there is an under representation by the media of reviewing books written by female authors. Aviva Tuffield argues that this gives women and men a distorted view of our society and contributes to unconscious bias again genuine equality.

"Infographic "Trends in Information literary: a comparative view." Easybib collected data from more than 1,200 librarians and over 10,000 students. This infographic explains how librarians are teaching information literacy and what trends have shifted between 2012-2014."

A fun look at hardcopy books from IKEA

Article from The Guardia (UK)

From Overdrive blog - some ideas for introducing library clientele to your digital collection

Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

Best practice videos for digital citizenship

Chrome is a powerful and useful browser and the choice of many.  It is powerful, well organised and reasonably quick. One of the better aspects is that there are some very useful extensions available. Listed (and linked) in this post are a few useful ones.  

Article about how to get information about your book/s out to the most people. The new ways - use digital services. Useful for us to get students to review books - make it for a wider audience than just their teacher.

Most suitable for Australia as courses are provided by Australian universities

"Educators have taken many approaches to solving the problem of bullying, whether making it "uncool" to bully, meting out scary punishments, or teaching tolerance. Tolerance is certainly part of the issue, but even that starts with highlighting differences between people and suggesting that one "tolerate" the other. There is no solving the issues, but there can be improved transparency, and a new tone for how we respond -- educating in kid-friendly and authentic language, using real-world examples with updated definitions, all in pursuit of total transparency for a growing problem."

Learning continuum - ICT integration

The University Libraries supports learners who are participating in MOOCs (massive open online courses). This guide will help you to locate resources related to MOOCS and get started on your coursework and research.

Research guide to support MOOC learners by Penn Uni USA

Standard 4 of the ISTE Standards for Teachers focuses on the concept of digital citizenship. The past decade has seen an exponential increase in digital tools and opportunities, which carry the need for students to master a new set of life skills for behaving responsibly online. Contrary to popular belief, however, digital natives don't pick up these skills through osmosis. It falls on parents and educators to teach them how. Just as a teacher would talk to students about etiquette and safety before they enter a public place on a school trip, so must they remind students of what's expected of them online. Students are much more likely to understand good digital citizenship - the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use - when teachers model it on a regular basis. The three social studies activities described in the table below are designed for students in grades 5-7. The objective of the lesson is to help students explore another culture and share traditions, events, customs and rituals from their own culture. There are different ways to address these objectives, but not all of them take advantage of the prime opportunity to promote and model digital citizenship.