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Issue 69 Summary
By Editor
Issue 69, Term 2 2009
gel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCIS is more ... New and revised subject headings ergo : an online framework for critical literacy in secondary education Linda Angeloni, State Library of Victoria School libraries: making a difference Kerry Neary Educational Lendin
Issue 67 Summary
By Editor
Issue 67, Term 4 2008
ote this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Using graphic organisers to teach information literacy Margaret Strickland, Endeavour College, SA An impossible passion: Young people, contemporary popular culture and reading Karen Brooks, U
Issue 62 Summary
By Editor
Issue 62, Term 3 2007
uel School, NSW Exchange – to give and receive reciprocally Karen Lindsay, Ecole Reynolds Secondary School, Canada Working together to promote literacy Extract from Literacy, Libraries and Learning: Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing and research Internetting c
Issue 58 Summary
By Editor
Issue 58, Term 3 2006
world. What the muggles don’t know Rosemary Horton, Trinity College, WA How does Google collect and rank results? Matt Cutts, Google Science literacy and the school librarian Peter Macinnis, Author Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hi
Issue 57 Summary
By Editor
Issue 57, Term 2 2006
to gather dust Catherine Kerstjens, The Le@rning Federation Perceptions of libraries and information resources Excerpt from OCLC Information literacy review Barbara Braxton, Palmerston District Primary School, ACT Show me what you mean! Interactive whiteboards in t he library Beth Measd
Issue 47 Summary
By Editor
Issue 47, Term 4 2003
News Designing a Website Justin Dymott, Curriculum Corporation Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW Digital Literacy Mentoring Program 2002–2003 Ruth Turpin, Echuca High School Being a Mentor in School Libraries Karen Russo, John Paul College, VIC In
Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Title: Boys and Literacy Professional Development Units and Teaching Units Publisher: Curriculum Corporation, Carlton Victoria, 1997 RRP: $59.95 ISBN: 1 86366 419 X or Teaching Units only $39.95 ISBN: 1 86366 4211 Description: Professional Development Units and Teaching Units Re
School library spotlight: Good Shepherd Catholic School
By Helen Tomazin
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
maintain a high level of customer service to support students, staff and parents. My teacher assistant qualifications enable me to assist students in literacy, numeracy and information literacy. Patrons often need assistance in locating resources and using our library catalogue and equipment such as
New Zealand News
By Jenny Carrol
Issue 19, Term 4 1996
she decided that her dignity was more important than her valour and gave it away! One of the threads connecting conference sessions was information literacy, which all school librarians found most relevant. All the new NZ curriculum documents have somewhere in their content an information literacy
Supporting multiple literacies through robotics clubs
By Chelsea Quake
Issue 110, Term 3 2019
a natural affinity with English and humanities departments. This is understandable, given school library professionals’ long-standing involvement in literacy support and advocacy, and the traditional assumption that literacy belongs to these subjects. However, the recent broadening of the scholarly
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
des explaining NSW court processes, as well as resources on legal issues such as debt, crime, environment, discrimination, government and privacy. Literacy Web Australia http://www.schools.ash.org.au/Iitweb Managed by Neil Anderson, a Queensland Educator of the Year, this site has a selection
School Library Spotlight: St Stephen's School
By Lise Legg
Issue 120, Term 1 2022
y officers – most working on a part-time basis. I am responsible for budgets, staffing, acquisitions including digital, and I also take a few digital literacy, information literacy and reading classes on one campus. Our very able team of teacher librarians collaborate with classroom teachers to ensu
Building a reading culture: A selection of articles from FYI and Synergy
By Pat Pledger
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
site (researchgate.net/profile/Margaret-Merga-2) where I found many useful articles. ‘Anatomy of a dissertation: What Emily discovered about gendered literacy’ by Carol A. Gordon (2015) also emphasised the importance of free voluntary reading but advised not to label books according to boy or girl i
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
ts will be absorbed by the visual presentation, and teachers will appreciate the range of quality material available. SCIS no. 1764544 Indigenous Literacy Foundation www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au ILF is a charity that aims to address the literacy levels of children in remote Abor
Issue 75 Summary
By Editor
Issue 75, Term 4 2010
ni Mehta, Education Services Australia New and revised subject headings Pam Kadow, Education Services Australia Digital participation, digital literacy and schools Cassie Hague and Ben Williamson, via Curriculum Leadership Journal School libraries: Making a difference Kerry Neary, via Cu
Issue 70 Summary
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Issue 70, Term 3 2009
llege Learning and Teaching Resource Centre, VIC Seven skills students desperately need Meris Stansbury, eSchool News Independent learning and literacy Via Curriculum Leadership Journal Development of a subject specialist library: GTAV Orbis Library Libby Hillman, GTAV Librarian Websi
Issue 48 Summary
By Editor
Issue 48, Term 1 2004
The Book Bunker Jenny Katauskas, Book Bunker Books of the Future Ben Haywood, via The Age SCIS news Release of Mathematics/Numeracy and Literacy Online Content Margery Hornibrook, The Le@rning Federation SCIS 2004 Welcome Anne Camfield, SCIS Discovering Democracy: Resources in
Issue 38 Summary
By Editor
Issue 38, Term 3 2001
ware Package Steven Haby, SCIS SCIS Agency Profile – Victoria Mavis Heffernan, Statewide School Library Support Centre, VIC School Libraries, Literacy Week and the Let’s Read Expo Mary Ellen Ray, DEET Cataloguing News
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ALIA Merit Award Congratulations to Michelle Ellis, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Library and I nformation Literacy, with the NSW Department of Educat i on and Training (Michelle is also the Manager of the New South Wales SC IS
With ASLA '97 but a year away, Celia Otley is out to entice delegates to the Northern Territory
By Celia Otley
Issue 18, Term 3 1996
s Conference will be ASLA with a difference as we are combining with the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and the Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA). Quite coincidentally it is the Northern Territory's turn to host all three conferences in 1997! As we are all f