VicPLN

digital collection curation - slide presentation by Joyce Valenza 164 slides!

What a brilliant depiction of how Wendy found the Victorian PLN program.

A fabulous 'toon' Wendy! Hopefully we all feel a lot less like we are swimming upstream than we were at the beginning! Thanks for summing our course up so neatly. Good luck with the next stage.

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The Digital citizenship: using technology appropriately website has recently published a post on the nine elements of digital citizenship. Each element is described in detail on the site. The elements include: Digital etiquetteDigital communicationDigital literacyDigital accessDigital commerceDigital lawDigital rights and responsibilitiesDigital health and well-beingDigital security

Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click.

A great tool to explore ideas and thoughts visually and collaboratively.

The curators and the curated

SpineOut is a new Australian online magazine for young adults produced by the team responsible for the Good Reading magazine.

A funky new lit blog from Christian College Geelong (SC) library staff.

This game is hugely popular with students coming into the library. I've had some great conversations with students about it. They like that swearing is banned, and that offenders will be banned from the game for a certain amount of time. A bit concerned, though, that someone posing as a younger person could sign in and socialise with young students.

splits your search term into related terms in a visual way

Author Tristan Bancks has developed a free Story Scrapbook app, which helps students plan their writing ideas. It's in beta at the moment but it's worth a play.

A series of user guides for Twitter, featuring screencasts and tips about getting started, tweeting and using hashtags.

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.

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