Due to the abundance of information and "misinformation" there is a vital need for students to be guided by trained teachers to assist them in developing essential "information skills".
We can not expect students to become "Information Literate" by throwing them into the sea of information and just hoping they don't drown!!
I hope that you might find the following event at the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery (next door to Coffs Harbour City Library) of interest.
At 10.00 am Saturday 31 October John McDonald author, historian and art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald will be presenting “Talk About Art” in the Regional Gallery. John is an erudite and at times controversial speaker but he is always entertaining. Cost $5, payable at the door and this includes refreshments.
For further information, please contact the Art Gallery on 6648 4863.
Regards
Judy Atkinson
Library Programs Officer Coffs Harbour City Library & Information Service
To all Teacher Librarians in the Coffs Harbour area please come along and join the network where you will be supported and have the opportunity to share your learnings with others. Help us help each other.
Meeting this term at
Coffs Harbour Primary School Library
3.30pm
Wednesday 11th November
We will have a guest speaker, Dan Brown, from World book, showing us around the updated World Book Web Site.
2nd on the list of course is our Christmas Dinner venue and date.
Looking forward to seeing you
Don't forget to bring something to eat with the cuppa/coffee
Lyn Howlin
Teacher Librarian
Coffs Harbour Primary School
Obama's new Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, offers an enthusiastic endorsement of using digital tools like video games and cellphones in the classroom. He's a pragmatist; his attitude is that kids are on this stuff all day anyway, so why not put them to educational use?
from Rachel A chat with Obama's new Secretary of Education
"When Melvil Dewey was a lad,
Books in libraries were so bad,
They were piled up in ugly stacks,
By which were lies and which were facts
And which were red and which were white
And which were large and which were slight.
“This has got to stop,” said Mel,
“These libraries are a living hell,
I just can’t get no satisfaction.”
And then he had an inspiration.
“There’s got to be a better system.
I’ll think it through, and then I’ll list ‘em.” It took him days and weeks and years,
He went through paper, ink and beers.
It took long walks with his dog Bluey,
And then it came to Melvil Dewey –
A way of finding books so fast
“This is the way, hooray, at last!”
“I’ll put all books in ten main classes,
I’ll write that down, now where’s my glasses?
Then each class into fields I shall divide ‘em,
And then each field and subfield and so on ad infinitum
For more specific things, I’ll use some decimal places,”
Whispered Mr. Dewey, hitching up his braces.
Mel used the lowest numbers for generalities,
Like mysteries, computers, journalism, bibliographies.
The 100s were for noble ideas and thoughts of philosophy,
And thoughts of thoughts and logic and psychology.
He set aside 200 to two hundred ‘n’ ninety nine
For ideas of the supernatural and of the divine. 300s were for social sciences – law and education,
Civics, sociology, customs and vocation
400s got the Language stuff – dictionaries ‘n’ grammar as well,
“This ain’t so hard after all,” mumbled a smug Mel.
500s he gave to Sciences – maths chem and zoology,
Botony, palaeontology, biol and geology.
600s for Technology, medicine and invention,
TV, engineering ‘n’ agriculture got a mention.
700s – the Arts – architecture and for painting,
And music and sculpture, photography, recreating.
800s for Literature – poetry, and plays (like Mystery),
900s for Geography, cities, countries and for History.
“Well that’s it then,” said Dewey to his Great Unca Scrooge,
If this thing catches on it really will be HUGE,
And if it don’t, why then, I’ll use my imagination,
I’ll do a Mao, leave libraries and go and lead a nation.”
Fortunately it worked for him, Mel Dewey and his dogue,
But next he had to invent the old card catalogue.
I’m not too sure I told it all the way it really went,
But next time to a library you go or you are sent,
Remember Melvil Dewey, the librarian and his pup,
Who gave us all good libraries, neatly divided up.
And spare a thought for librarians with strange looks on their faces,
Sitting in their back rooms trying to work out decimal places."
Sharing a message from Ian Mc Lean (with permission) with you:
The book rap is based on two picture books, "Bear & Chook",
and the newly-released "Bear & Chook by the sea",
is aimed at students in Early Stage 1 (Kinder) and Stage 1 (Years 1 & 2).
Several schools have already introduced themselves, there are some great comments turning up on the Teachers' section, and there are already things to look at in the Gallery.
This book rap will also feature participation by the author, Lisa Shanahan, and illustrator, Emma Quay. An online video, of Lisa and Emma reading "Bear & Chook by the sea" at Caddies Creek PS, and answering students' questions, will be an exciting addition to the usual teaching resources.
The rap is being coordinated by Jenny Scheffers (TL at Caddies Creek),
"Scan" editor Cath Keane, and yours truly.
Interstate and international schools are welcome, and
You can see there the weekly tasks which students will undertake.
If you're trying to visualise the scope of the programming and planning, syllabus outcomes and rap sheets, you might like to check out previous recent raps, such as the 2008 Stage 1 "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge" book rap, in which the discussion component was also in a blog format: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/wilfrid08/index.htm
You can also email cath.keane@det.nsw.edu.au for further information about the rap.
This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training as a quality teacher initiative under the Australian Government Quality Teacher Programme.
This course is a 20 hour course for
teachers and teacher librarians
in primary and secondary
schools throughout NSW.
The course comprises 1 full day face to face workshop in a location across NSW followed by an online program to be completed by Term 4, 2009. Participants will learn about:
Digital literacy and associated learning and skills for teachers to use in the classroom
Web 2.0 tools and other digital tools for learning....see below for overviews of the workshop and online course
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