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This inspirational video was shared today by our presenter at the SLAV Conference and made a huge impression.  It could be used with staff and students for inspiration, to challenge thinking and to stimulate discussion about the creative process.

"A great website that provides a Harvard reference generator, plagiarism test; speed writing which will greatly assist students when writing up their research assignments and even creative writing; lazy researcher"

Ping is a social networking site that makes learning music fun, simple and accessible, and provides creative musical opportunities for middle year school students in Australia.

For Victorian Schools only. Are any of your students and teachers involved in using interesting and innovative online tools? Have you been working with students and teachers on copyright, creative commons and Intellectual property? Are you interested in helping your students to build online resources to share their discoveries with others? If you answer YES to any or all of the questions above then the SLAV Web Elements Engaged project might be for you. 

Quote from site "The six jobs described below outline creative ways that your students can make valuable contributions to their learning community. While these jobs can be successfully implemented individually, it is bringing them together in harmony where we can create a more balanced vision of teaching and learning."

Purpose: This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.

Tania Sheko's personal learning blog - a fantastic read for all teachers and teacher librarians.

Great little site for adding a different element to creative writing and story telling.