Resources, resources, resources in a new world: Google plus 70% by Maureen Henninger; plus presentations by Debbie Campbell, Kelly Gardiner, Sandy Phillips, Leonie Bourke and Miffy Farquharson 
Another successful conference, with plenty of food for thought. Barbara Combe and Paul Macdonald have kindly allowed us to upload their presentations from the conference for your further reference. 
Connecting With History by Geraldine Ditchburn & Stacey Hattensen now available as e-book from the iTunes Store. You can read this book about teaching history for non-history teachers on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. 
Classic Books of the Read.gov website...Explore books of eras past and read online. Via Carmel Galvin 
Ria Coffey's summary and reflections on the recent School Library Association of Victoria's conference for Library Technicians. Resources and ideas from presentations by Maureen Henninger, Sandy Philips and Leonie Bourke (SCIS) 
Secondary School resources for Reconciliation Week curated by Heather Carver 
Explore, create and find iBook resources for schools... 
Library and Information Week will be held from 20 - 26 May 2012 and the 2012 theme is Think Outside the Book. 
Term 1 2012 new titles for ClickView Enjoy reading: Ebooks The New Normal- Second Annual Survey of ebook penetration and use in US K-12 school libraries. 2011 Wheelers ePlatform offers one option for school libraries in Australia: ePlatform in a nutshell An ePlatform is a secure library... The little start-up from Melbourne, Australia, Booki.sh is joining the rapidly growing Cleveland-based OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries. [by Dan Tonkery] 
uilding upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik and Ashley Lee, seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media usage, and social patterns affect these activities.
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Think outside the book. Download SCIS records for websites, e-books and digital video 
By Melanie Pinola
"Earlier this week, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, the company's new search technology that understands "things not strings" and adds rich and relevant details about your query in the sidebar of your search results. Here are five great things you can now do with a quick Google search."
"I took the new version of Google Search for a spin to find out just what it can do, and have to say it's pretty useful. To recap, Google now connects your search query with its knowledgebase, which includes Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook. If you search for a person, place, or thing within that 500+ million object database, Google adds the related key facts alongside the regular search results. (The tech is still rolling out, but you should see it when you're logged into Google sometime in the next few days, if you don't already.) Via Jim Lerman 
Content curation crops up over and over again – so a whole issue on the topic from the wonderful school librarians in New Zealand is worth a read! Tossing ideas around, and finding ways to harness tools to our purpose is part of the daily challenge. SLASA Harvard Online Referencing Generator– Junior (abridged), Middle and Senior levels - Creates citations for a comprehensive range of sources – copy & pa... 
The opportunity to explore digital resources hands-on, with time to discuss how you can present, promote and use them to enrich your classroom programmes, support the students in your schools, and the clients at your libraries. 
A national fundraising effort to build libraries and publish local language books in Cambodia has been kickstarted by Stubbies ... 
"Most librarians are educators in one sense or another, even when the role is not explicit. The best teachers learn from others and learn by doing. This is a good rule for improving at virtually anything: Seeking inspiration and accepting criticism makes your work richer and more well rounded."
This article, adapted from Char Booth's book on Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning (2011), presents her ideas based on her own method expanded through mentorship, coteaching, online forums, and other collaboration channels: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/03142012/reflective-teaching-librarians
Via Fe Angela M. Verzosa, Ann Vega, Dr. Laura Sheneman, Donna Watt 
The Join a reading adventure! rap is now live from http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps 
With a bank of 40,000 educational apps that have been cataloged, reviewed, and approved, a Tennessee initiative hopes to make it easier for educators to use apps in the classroom and beyond. Via Lourense Das 
Several overriding themes permeated this year's Tools of Change for Publishing conference. The fourth in a series looking at five of the major themes, here we take a look at discovery in publishing. 
Just this weekend I’ve finished writing a lead article for my SLANZA friends in NZ for their Collected Magazine. School librarians everywhere are interested in the same things, so I was pleasee to be able to contribute to an issue focused on Content Curation. 
By Audrey Watters
Edmodo hopes to make the move from "app" to "platform," with the opening today of its API to third-party Web developers.
At launch, Edmodo boasts some 35 partners who have already developed apps for the new platform -- these include Mathalicious, Late Nite Labs, Desmos, BrainNook, Aviary and (30) others. Using the Edmodo API, these companies can now connect their own apps to the Edmodo social network, meaning that they can tap into Edmodo's badge functionality, feeds, assignments, grade book and so on. These apps are integrated with Edmodo, in terms of single sign-on, analytics, and -- and this is key for both Edmodo users and app developers -- roles (that is, who's a teacher, who's a student, what grade is the student, who's a parent, who's a principal and so on). Via Jim Lerman |
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