We have more exciting news from Jackie Hawkes for CBCA NSW : It certainly is a great time of year to start snuggling up with cooler weather and great books.
You may like to join in this venture with your kids to create a story quilt for Book Week 2016 to fit in with the theme - Australia: Story Country
Screenshot from CBCA site http://nsw.cbca.org.au/pages/book-of-the-year-quilt-project-.html
It's not a competition, just a creating link with quilts and stories and sharing.
Screenshot from CBCA website http://nsw.cbca.org.au/pages/book-of-the-year-quilt-project-.html
Reviews of many of these will be included in Reading Time http://readingtime.com.au/ You may like to check out Audrey Nay's 2016 CBCA Book week Notables board for some ideas.
These will narrow down to the Short list (which many use as the focus for further lead up to Book Week) to be announced on May 19 at the
The categories for Early Childhood; Picture Book; Younger Readers; Older Readers; Eve Pownall Information Book; and the Crichton Award for New Illustrators.
If you are in primary or lower secondary, CBCA NSW is hosting an open video conference discussion about the short list for younger readers on August 11 thru DART. Oliver Phommavahn will be our guest author sharing the discussion chair with me. This is always an interesting bit of insight into how kids feel about the list and is open to all schools for viewing. More details will be available very soon.
The Winners for each category are announced on August 19 to lead into Book Week 2016 (Saturday 20 August - Friday 26 August 2016) with the theme of Australia: Story Country.
To top it all off the Book Week posters and promotional materials are designed by Shaun Tan. Details soon.
Screenshot from Shaun Tan's homepage showing some of his wacky illustrations!
I do hope you have a few minutes to contribute to this survey!
Dear Teacher-Librarians.
Last year, you may remember completing a survey for me so I could do a study on how the library is used as a Physical beneficial space; This lead to an article being published in the iLeader.
This year I would like do a follow up report on how the library is used to aid the schools discipline policy, and perhaps to take further pressure of the whole school body (teachers and students).
Please complete the survey (link below) if you have time.
"The social librarian is enmeshed in the fabric of the Internet of Things as curator, educator, filter and beacon. In this complex, dynamic and demanding environment, librarians are extending themselves and empowering library users." - See more at: I AM A {SOCIAL} LIBRARIAN infographic -
Darcy Moore (Deputy Principal Dapto High) blogged this post after the day: Advocacy, My Daughter, Morris Gleitzman & Jackie French
What a great opportunity for a young girl!
Well done to SLANSW for facilitating a student voice in the introductions!
The post includes information about the global literacy situation and videos of authors
reading their stories on YouTube for World Read Aloud Day 2014.
Imagine a world where everyone can read...
On World Read Aloud Day, celebrate by reading aloud or
taking action on behalf of the 793 million people who cannot read
.
How did this event start? who had the bright idea? Read this inspiring article: Huffington Post: Read Aloud. Change the World.
Read Aloud. Change the World by Pam Allyn
Read the previous winners of theChildren's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year Award. Barbara Braxton was "inspired by John Schu's challenge to read all the Newbery Medal winners in chronological order, so she has created an Australian version ...
CONNECT TO READING-CLASSICS
Barbara means for the Challenge to be stress free.
"Shape it to suit yourself and your circumstances." Do you have students who just LOVE reading?
On the CONNECT TO CLASSICS page of the BOOKWEEK FOR BEGINNERS wikiBarbara lists a number of suggested activities and links to a number of technology tools to enhance the challenge for you and your students.
Check out the rest of the wiki for great ideas for 2014 CBC Bookweek .
Today we have a great line-up of Library 2.013 pre-conference sessions, all free (of course!),
all dedicated to "connected librarians," and all part of the spectacular Connected Educator Month. The schedule overview is below, with
more information and how to join the sessions at http://www.connectedlibrarians.com.
11:00am US-Eastern Daylight
Time
"Leading the Charge to Connect the Library,
Classroom, and Curriculum: A View from Library Leadership" - Panel
Discussion
12:00pm US-Eastern Daylight
Time
"The Library as Makerspace"- Kristin Fontichiaro
1:00pm US-Eastern Daylight
Time
"Virtual Library Instruction:Tools & Tips" - Stacy
Creel "Teaching the Teachers: Integrating Technology into Library
Instruction" - Amanda Nichols Hess
2:00pm US-Eastern Daylight
Time
"[Re]Envisioning the Role of Librarian as Educator in the
Digital Information Age" - John Shank
Continuing this week are the nightly "cafe" conversations with
online "heroes." If you haven't joined us for one of these yet, they are turning
out to be some of the most enjoyable online sessions I've ever held, as we get a
chance to spend some more personal time with these folks and you get a chance to
connect with them. Join me from 7:30 - 8:30pm US-Eastern Daylight Time each
weeknight by going to http://bit.ly/connected_cafe.
"There is a lot to discover and learn about. If you are a teacher librarian, please make this part of your professional learning agenda for 2013. We are on the web and of the web, and our opportunities to improve the information and knowledge matrix in schools is fantastic – if we know how!"
Please visit the link above to read all of Judy's post. I have selected a small, but important selection to hopefully encourage you to delve deeper into these issues.
Maybe you could consider viewing and discussing some of the presentations at your next TL network meeting.
"These very issues were highlighted at the recent SCIS ASKS Forum held in Melbourne recently.How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015? Support for the new Australian curriculum makes it imperative that we include emerging technologies and global understanding of information organization in the knowledge matrix that we support. It’s no longer about organizing those container of information that’s important – it’s the connections and access pathways and interpersonal learning experiences that a good school library can facilitate. It is a teacher librarian’s job to empower students and teachers information access needs, and to manage systems that support this. We are very lucky in Australia that Education Services Australia, and the Schools Catalogue Information Service have their eye on this for us." from Strategic Directions for School Libraries
I am hoping that by sharing this I may find some willing Teacher Librarians to help out by answering this survey from Joyce Valenza, Brenda Boyer & Della Curtis. Please help us better understand the digital curation state-of-the-art across "LibraryLand." We hope to share our research in various social networks as well as in an ALA Tech Source Report.
You may respond anonymously or share contact information. If you do, you will be eligible to win an Amazon gift certificate.
In addition, please consider sharing your contact information if you'd like to be interviewed for our research.
This survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete.
Thank you for considering helping us learn more about digital curation in libraries.
I would love to see some more great posters in the future. If you are looking for some more posters for displays check out these.They were all designed in Adobe PhotoShop CS5. (The blog formerly known as TeachFactory.com :) A range of posters are also available at Mrs. Lion's Teacher Resources.
Maybe you would like some free technology posters for your classroom. I love the last one of the eight posters the most, as it provides a clear guide to getting better search results. You will find a variety of posters that I have pinned at on Pinterest. Then there are these gorgeous posters- Decorate your walls with downloadable posters by author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds. These free, full-colour posters are based on the themes in The North Star book - aimed at encouraging life-long learning, diversity appreciation, creative thinking, positive school communities, and more!
Book Week is the longest running children's festival in Australia, celebrating its 68th birthday in 2013.
The CBCA states: "Each year, many schools and public libraries from all over Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians develop activities, offer competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading."
"This wiki has been established to support new primary school teacher librarians who are implementing Children's Book Week in their schools for the first time. Australia's experienced teacher librarians are invited to share their experience and expertise in areas such as
DON"T MISS: The Book Chook's Collection of resources and ideas for BOOKWEEK. The Book Chook came up with an activity booklet that involves kids in thinking creatively and responding to the theme of Read across the Universe. It is available for download at her website.
The Book Chook was asked by the Children's Book Council's Anticipate Appreciate Applaud Sub Committee (NSW) to create a presentation for librarians.
To accompany her presentation, she made a booklet which you can download for free at her website too. Inside the booklet, you'll find ideas from her about celebrating Children's Book Week with not just books, but lots of web resources too. Interactive Activities Galore @ Mrs B's Interactive LiteracyandMrs B's 2013 Shortlist Activities
Let's SING
Narelle Adams has recorded the song "Reading Across the Universe"
The CBCA produces a range of promotional items, including stickers for publishers to place on winning and honour books, and support materials for teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians. The range is always changing and developing.
and the WINNERS are............NOT long to go now!!!!
The winners will be announced on Friday August 16, 2013
Jennifer Dyer (ALIA NSW Library Technicians Group Convenor.) has asked that this news is passed on to all interested parties.
ALIA has a major project
underway to consult with industry on the
Future
of theprofession. Submissions can be made online but they also intend to
run a series of consultationsaround the country. This seems
a great opportunity to state an opinion on the threats and opportunities facing
libraries and to hear the opinion of others in all sectors of theindustry. Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, Library & Information
Services, have offered to host one of thesessions to ensure
that Western Sydney is represented.
ALIA has accepted the offer and the event is scheduled
for:
Tuesday 30 July - 14:00 to 16:30
The venue
is:
Kiranari Room (room
L.1.89)
Building
L
Mount Druitt
College of TAFE
Mount Street
and North Parade
Mount
Druitt
Parking is free. The College is
about 500 metres from Mt Druitt train station, heading back towards
Sydney.
Details of the
project and a literature review are available at
The MANTLE Conference is the annual professional conference of all teacher librarians in the Newcastle, Maitland, Taree, Lake Macquarie and Central Coast districts.
It is organised by a volunteer committee of local Teacher Librarians from DET, Catholic and Independent schools. The committee changes annually with half the committee being replaced by other local TLs. It truly is a collegial organisation.
I am delighted to share some news from Lara O'Donoghue, Convenor MANTLE
"The MANTLE Committee received some much anticipated news today. We are now officially endorsed providers of professional development with the NSW Institute of Teachers.
You can download registration papers and information re accreditation on our website at www.mantle.com.au. Due date: 13th April, 2013
I am looking forward to using this free app with our students: i-Prompt Pro-Teleprompter Students can practice reading to build fluency using the iPrompt iPad app. To introduce this app I plan to choose a familiar text. I will cut and paste the text into the app. It also allows for some differentiation in that you can alter the font size and speed of delivery to meet the needs of your students. One student can act as a timekeeper and mentor, where required, for another child. Thanks to Monica Burns of ClassTechTips.com
Description and Features from iTunes Professional Tele-prompting software for your iPad. Use your Apple iPad as a professional teleprompter for location reporting, corporate video productions, info-mercials, video blogs, podcasts and all types of public event speaking. FEATURES: Smooth Scrolling – in both landscape or portrait modes, with mirrored or standard text alignments. Fast Script Download to i-Prompt software via simple email or document cut and paste text copying. Instant Script Editing and Timing – use i-Prompt’s in-built text editor for those last minute changes to content and timing. Control Prompting Speed - adjust the speed of your prompting script with menu driven settings or the custom wireless controller (supplied when purchasing the complete i-Prompter kit, go to http://www.i-prompter.com/ for further details. Fully Customisable Prompting Screen Display - adjust the font type, font size, and on-screen text/background colours. Only Language supported is English.
the right to read and write belongs to all people.
It’s time to join the Global Literacy Movement
Reached 65 countries and hundreds of thousands of participants on March 7, 2012
How far can we reach in 2013???
Hello Fellow Librarians,
As in years past, I am inviting you to participate with me in World Read
Aloud Day (http://litworld.org/worldreadaloudday/.) On March 6th, we will celebrate World Read Aloud Day by raising awareness about literacy around the world. [Available on the activities page is a packet of library printable resources,] along with posters, certificates, bookmarks and sticker templates.
It would be fun to share how we all participate in the day. I look forward to hearing from you!
Below is a letter from Pam Allyn, founding director of LitWorld and
World Read Aloud Day.
Enjoy!
Elizabeth Fernandez
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Greenwich, CT.
A message from Pam Allyn of LitWorld to School Librarians:
Imagine a world where everyone can read.On March 6th 2013, we will celebrate World Read Aloud Day for the fourth time, in over 50 states and 60 countries. World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. It is a day motivating children, teens, and adults worldwide to rejoice in the power of words, just as librarians do each and every day. Celebrate in your libraries by reading aloud, giving away a book, or taking action in any way you can to "Read It Forward" on behalf of the 793 million people who cannot yet read.
As librarians, you guide your students into worlds of wonder and possibility. Libraries are sanctuaries, where children can discover more than just books or technology resources-they find opportunities. While communities evolve and the landscape of information churns and shifts, you are the steady voice telling stories, igniting imaginations, making connections, and changing lives. Your role is essential to spreading the word and the message of World Read Aloud Day: that reading is a human right. Join us as librarians from the most rural to the most urban parts of the world Read It Forward. Help us celebrate as a reading leader by engaging your school and library program on March 6th. We will honor you on our social media and feature your pictures of your celebration in our WRAD album on Facebook.
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