but wait! There's more! from CBCA and it's a bit crafty!!

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

For further details visit  the CBCA NSW site

70th Anniversary of Book of the Year Awards 1946 – 2016: Quilt Project

Happy reading and creating and sharing!

Cheers - Jackie

Jackie Hawkes

Teacher librarian

2016 Children's Book Council of Australia announces this years Notables!

Thank you to Jackie Hawke for CBCA for providing the following information:

Check out the listing and reviews of the CBCA 206 Notables through this link to Reading Time

http://readingtime.com.au/announcing-2016-cbca-book-year-notables/  - the on-line journal for the Children's Book Council of Australia. Then check back as other reviews and links are added soon. 

Listing with the covers are included http://cbca.org.au/notables-2016

The Notables are the first phase of recognising great new Australian books for kids. These titles are too good to miss.

Books and Publishing posted a no frills listing that may be useful.

http://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/04/18/55147/cbca-notable-books-for-2016-announced/

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 

National CBCA conference in Sydney 

 http://www.cbcaconference.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PROGRAM-March-2016.pdf 

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!

21st century students use 21st Century libraries.

"Kids just want to have fun!" including while learning.
These photos show you just what some of our kids choose to do during one of their lunchtimes.




What do your students like to do and learn in your library?

The Library is used in oh so many ways!!

Today I am sharing a message from Martin Gray.

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.

http://slansw.asn.au/download/ileader23samplegray.pdf

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.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zUsEQQ6_aV8KByoi51voJ6OAr21Id1jvd87KyX1m16s/viewform?usp=send_form

Regards

 Martin Gray

Teacher-Librarian.

How do you feel about this article ?

How has the role of the librarians changed in the 21st Centruy?

Are you a librarian? A social librarian?

  "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 -

 Free download!

 Print it and put it up for all to see!!
 
If you are looking for more inspiration and direction you could visit My Scoop.it page: Library learning centre builds lifelong learners. Opportunities, strategies and services provided to assist students learning for many interesting articles.
You could also visit some of my Library boards on Pinterest:
Follow Audrey Nay's board LIBRARY Advocacy on Pinterest.
  Follow Audrey Nay's board Library: School Libraries on Pinterest.

NSWSLA State Library Day Success!! Loved the inclusion of student voice.

What a great day was had by all the folk who made it to the NSW State Library Day last Saturday

where Darcy Moore (Deputy Principal Dapto High School), 

authors Jackie French and Morris Gleitzman 

Ava Banerjee (SHORE School) and Andrew Taylor, author 

 Michael Grant, creator of Edutainme, provided plenty of learning opportunities.

                                                             See the storify for more insight.

screenshot of storify page.

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!

Don't forget to visit the Australian Teacher Librarian Facebook Page to keep up to date.

Don't Miss The Three R's- Remote, Rural & Regional Teacher Librarians Network Day

Check out this flyer @ Smore flyer https://www.smore.com/g23c
To view the flyer on this page scroll down on the inside bar.

CONNECT with this OZ Reading Challenge from Barbara Braxton for 2014 Bookweek

Your challenge should you decide to accept it:

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 wiki Barbara 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 .

Book Week 2014 

from Children's Book Council of Australia

The book week theme in 2014 is Connect to reading

The dates will be August 16 - August 22, 2014

The Short List and Notables announcement date will be Tuesday 8 April. 

The Notables start rolling out at about 9 am culminating with the Short List announcement at Noon.

The winners will be announced on Friday August 15, at noon.

                                  Follow Audrey Nay's board 2014 CBC Bookweek on Pinterest.

Get CONNECTED! during Connected Educator Month

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. Here is our schedule for this week: Monday, October 14 Connection to Collaboration: Howard Rheingold and Shelly Terrell Tuesday, October 15 Innovating STEM and Literacy: Sylvia Martinez and Jackie Gerstein Wednesday, October 16 Making Informal PD Count: Peggy George Thursday, October 17 Personalized Learning: Gwyneth Jones and Joyce Valenza Friday, October 18 21st Century Classroom Management: Audrey Watters Here's the schedule for the rest of the month: October 21 Connected Leadership: Milton Chen, Sam Chaltain October 22 Connection to Collaboration: Julie Lindsay, Kathy Schrock, Shannon Miller, Esther Wojcicki October 23 Innovating STEM and Literacy: Yovel Badash and Jim Vanides October 24 Making Informal PD Count: Lucy Gray, Steven Anderson October 25 Personalized Learning: TBD (hopefully, connected students!) October 28 21st Century Classroom Management: Suzie Boss, Jane Nelsen October 29 Connected Leadership: Keith Krueger, Scott McLeod October 30 Connection to Collaboration: Richard Byrne, Adam Bellow October 31 Innovating STEM and Literacy: TBD Recordings of the previous cafe sessions are all at here. October 3 Connected Leadership Dean Shareski, Vicki Davis October 4 Connection to Collaboration Larry Ferlazzo, Angela Maiers October 7 Innovating STEM and Literacy Michelle Cordy October 8 Making Informal PD Count: Ira Socol, Kathleen Cushman October 9 Personalized Learning: Karl Fisch, Lee Kolbert, Will Richardson October 10 21st Century Classroom Management: Alice Keeler, Anne Mirtschin October 11 Connected Leadership: David Loertscher, Bill Brennan Visit Classroom 2.0 at: http://www.classroom20.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network

Do you have many questions about cataloguing digital resources that you can't answer yet?

"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!" 

Strategic directions for school libraries by +Judy O'Connell 

• 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

 

Strategic Directions for School Libraries from Judy O'Connell
I found the presentations below helpful: 

In 2011 SCIS produced this presentation:

MARC my e-books from SCIS
More recently

SCIS asks consultation 2012 from SCIS

Managing e-books in libraries from SCIS

You may wish to complete their Resourcing the curriculum survey 
 It does not take very long.

Help needed to understand the digital curation state-of-the-art across "LibraryLand".

Librarian Digital Curation Survey

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.

Joyce Valenza, Brenda Boyer, Della Curtis

Posters, posters & more free posters.

When Harper Collins released this beautiful poster last week I just had to go exploring the rest of their treasures. 

Harper Collins also have an entertaining KIDS section with a Book Finder, Authors & Illustrators, Games & Contests tabs.

Also available is a helpful Parents Section to share suggestions from pre-school on.

There are so many teaching & reading guides ,under the Teaching Resources tab, available on a wide range of kids books.

If you are looking for award winning books , new releases, information, including websites, audio & interviews, on various authors and illustrators you will be pleased.

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!

BOOKWEEK sites & sounds to support learning!

The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) organises BOOKWEEK- 

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." 

The theme in 2013 is... Read across the universe.

There are plenty of great ideas to select from on the Read across the universe page of the Bookweek wiki.

Barbara Braxton has established a wiki particularly to support new TLs. It is a collaborative wiki which contains ideas from various teachers and TLs.

On the BOOKWEEK for Beginners -Helping new TLs celebrate Bookweek home page it states:

"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

• promotion and celebration
• logistics and organisation
• creating displays
• activities for the shortlisted books suitable for primary
• activities to support the theme of Read Across the Universe
• linking the celebrations to literacy, literature, information literacy and other curriculum outcomes
• author visits
• integrating ICT"

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 Literacy and  Mrs B's 2013 Shortlist Activities

Let's SING 

Narelle Adams has recorded the song "Reading Across the Universe" 

available on Narelle Adams Edutainer Weebly 

Screenshot of Narelle Adams from Narelle Adams Edutainer Weebly 

Looking for more songs? There are a number of Space Songs available at 
Space Songs, Music and Space

MORE RESOURCES:

Children's Bookweek  from Lyn Campbell Epping Public School has many valuable resources to support teaching and learning activities during Bookweek.

Are you looking for Book Week Merchandise?

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 

(unless you live in SA but that is another story) 

Fun and games in the library

Mrs. Lodge's Library page is a valuable resource to know about.

Library Centres contains a wonderful collection a great ideas for engaging students in many various activities in the library.

Get kids playing shelve it to build their library skills.
Mrs. Lodges Library - Featuring Shelve-it!

(screenshot)

Using Dewey

 

(screenshot)

Three levels to choose from

 

(screenshot)

Using Fiction 

ALIA and the Future of the profession.

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 the profession. Submissions can be made online but they also intend to run a series of consultations around 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 the industry. Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, Library & Information Services, have offered to host one of the sessions 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

http://aliafutures.wikispaces.com

We would love to see you there and would appreciate you making this information known to your staff and to your other contacts within the industry.

There is no formal booking system but to give us an idea of numbers could you please reply to the Head Teacher, Allan.Daniel@tafensw.edu.au

 

2013 MANTLE Conference Update

MANTLE Conference 2013

Friday 17th May 2013.

 

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 

You can also like us on our Facebook page for further updates at https://www.facebook.com/TheMANTLEconference

This year's conference is also catering to Library Support Staff. Looking forward to meeting your assistants and technicians in May!"

App to improve fluency

                             

     

     

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


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