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Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed a resourceful wiki to support Maths learning and teaching.

Whitefriars College teacher librarian Karen Kearney has developed some interesting resources to support learning and teaching.

This is an annual event that not only brings people together, it also gives hope, inspiration and a sense of community. I am able to obtain all the information required to host such an event from this site.

Readlists is a site that lets you put together bundles of articles, share these articles with others and also download the bundle as an ebook.

Storify is one of our favourite sites, as it takes a whole new approach to story telling. We use it for putting together tutorials, summarising conferences and we think it has some amazing possibilities in the classroom. November 30, 2012 at 01:23PM

Catherine Hainstock has put together a draft list of iPad apps for use with the e5 model. Have a look at her post here describing the process. A chart of the apps is also available.

Have a look at this YouTube video of what the Mt Gambier Library staff put together for this year's National Simultaneous Storytime. Well done to the library staff on a great video!

Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. The series reveals astonishing facts about how the web is rewiring our society, our economy and - drawing on a unique experiment conducted specifically for the series - maybe even our brains.The series brings together everyone who's anyone on the web - from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; from Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to Amazon's Jeff Bezos; from web pioneers like Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to digital media barons like Arianna Huffington and Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMelbourne, where x = independently organized TED event.

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.