This blog is created by the AP at Wiley Park sharing their school's journey with teh Book rap blog.
This project was designed to improve learning outcomes for ESL learners - site very informative
A fantastic blog by the School Library Association of Victoria. Always shares great resources relevant to school libraries and teacher librarians, with a focus on web 2.0 tools.
The new "New Stand" feature in iOS 5 for iPads/iPhones etc allows you to download interactive publications such as the national geographic magazine demonstrated in this blog post
This blog has been created for your Professional Learning Network (PLN).\nThe intention is to use this as a means for sharing, collaborating and most importantly DISCUSSING all things related to libraries and learning.
a blog post explaining a new feature within the Google search engine - the ability to filter results by reading level!
This post defines how to do this and gives lots of examples.
This blog entry by the School Library Association of Victoria shares how Mooroopna Secondary College has been using Animoto to make book trailers, it also shares some hints on registering classes on the Animoto site to make videos. Could be useful for those who are participating in the Digital Literature Review Competition that is commencing soon!
An interesting read.
Students -
"They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all."
A blog post exploring the use of social media in a library setting. In the post, Judy advocates the only way to teach social media, is to do it yourself first...
I strongly recommend this read to all LT's - if this hasn't yet been a discussion at your school - I am sure it will be some time in the future. Recommend all primary and secondary staff to read this !
Michelle D - sent this through from conference
Great collection of free children's books available online. The books are available in a dozen different languages and available to download in PDF format. Well worth a look