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New Zealand News
By Jenny Carroll
Issue 21, Term 2 1997
nference in Wellington, scheduled for July 25 and 26. Speakers include Mary K. Chelton co-founder of Voice of Youth Advocates and Sam Edwards, visual literacy expert from the University of Waikato. The NZLIA Conference will be held in Wanganui on the 16, 17 and 18 of October. Of particular interes
The Ever-Rising Popularity of Graphic Novels
By Michael Jongen, Helen Kain
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
ovels can be successfully used across the curriculum and arguing that teacher librarians need to advocate for their value. She illustrated how visual literacy has become an important part of the English Curriculum and how graphic novels can add value to the school library collection. Karen supplied
School library spotlight: Campbelltown Performing Arts High School
By Cathy Costello
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
rmation landscape and the information needs of the school community. Teacher librarians have recognised the need to provide students with information literacy and critical thinking skills to cope with the deluge of available information online. As information specialists, this places teacher librari
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
t banter they asked me what it meant to be a librarian in the age of Google. My answer — that the need for resource curation, information and digital literacy, and knowledge management was greater than ever — came as no surprise to them. They instantly comprehended that this age represents not a dim
Brisbane Cath. Ed. Skills teachers with ‘C.L.I.C.ed’
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
Since the beginning of 1994 Brisbane Catholic Education have conducted Computer Key Teacher training courses to enable the presentation of a Computer Literacy Inservice Course to school personnel. On present numbers, by the end of 1995 this course will have trained more than 200 Key Teachers from 10
Making Sense
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 21, Term 2 1997
His paper is titled Sense: the Final Frontier . Meaning, or sense, is at the heart of literacy, English teaching and all structurings of knowledge and thus provides an obvious focus for the conference's language day, however, it is one of the least understood and therefore most unsettling topics i
ASLA Conference and Awards 2023
By Australian School Library Association
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
e tours of local school libraries and bookshops, as well as a selection of masterclasses. The main conference will include sessions on topics such as literacy, dynamic spaces, and key skills for future learning, and will feature two keynote speakers, Lee Crockett and Dr Margaret Merga. Lee Crockett
School library spotlight: Cerdon college
By Nancy Sylaprany
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
authors to read, and expanding their reading interests. I also work more intensively with six English classes in relation to students with identified literacy needs, and I work with classes across Key Learning Area (KLAs) with inquiry and research tasks. This may involve developing library guides or
School Library Spotlight: Tarneit P-9 College
By Susan Grieve
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
oom, providing materials and resources that enhance the curriculum and teaching strategies,’ she states. Central to the library’s role is promoting literacy and a love for lifelong learning. Susan is passionate about creating programs and initiatives that engage students with reading and learning.
What the School Library Survey has taught me
By Jen Sheridan
Issue 117, Term 2 2021
rk with the teacher librarian I’d like the school to build intentional, curriculum-based teaching programmes that incorporate information and digital literacy, literary competencies, future learning skills (21st-century skills), and inquiry learning.’ – Australia 2020 ‘We live in a digital world
Diverse titles are finding their homes in libraries
By Crystal Corocher
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
r 5/6 curriculum, and can be used as a scaffolding text in secondary schools. Giovanni is also a text that can be used in the instruction of visual literacy at any year level. What does ‘seeing yourself on the page’ mean? With literacy rates and reading engagement rates declining, it is essent
40 years of SCIS
By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 131, Term 4, 2024
ovement highlighting the lack of library services in schools coincided with a change in the way education was approached. The concept of ‘information literacy’ emerged, focusing on teaching students to find, evaluate and use information critically. This resulted in an education shift in Australia fr
Barramundi and Chips at Christo's
By Kylie Hanson, Ashley Freeman, Ken Dillon
Issue 23, Term 4 1997
ical Darwin and the occasion was the first joint national conference of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE), the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) and the Australian School Library Association (ASLA). The theme of the conference was 'Unsettling Certainties:
The library, the child, the book creator: ELR and its role in the story cycle
By Tania McCartney
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
e desire to ditch our passion for better paid work might consume us if we weren’t sustained by what drives us. And what drives us is children. Literacy. Art appreciation. Visual literacy. Self-awareness, compassion, growth, aesthetic development. Entertainment, education, enlightenment, encha
New and revised SCIS subject headings
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
lustrators Life events see Life change events Life changing events see Life change events Literature – Autobiography see Authors Media literacy see Information literacy Media literacy see Mass media Pictorial dictionaries see Picture dictionaries SEL (Social and emotional
Graphic novels: providing a different perspective
By Karen Gray
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
e world, Kunkle (2004) identifies similarities between reading a graphic novel, the interactivity contained in websites, and the importance of visual literacy skills in being able to navigate both. Graphic novels are considered multimodal texts that tap into the way students already learn. The Aus
It’s time: let’s improve schools' perceptions of teacher librarians
By Bev Novak
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
work colleague shared a link to Sally Dring’s fabulous article published in 2014, ‘Don’t overlook your school librarian, they’re the unsung heroes of literacy’. When I read this article a couple of years ago, I shared it on Twitter, and was delighted to read Sally’s reply: ‘It needs saying!’ Dring’
New and revised subject headings
By SCIS cataloguing team
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
h. Do not use for levelled readers that are for teaching reading in primary school. For example, PM readers, Oxford reading tree, and Flying start to literacy. Kayaking Kayaks Levelled readers Scope note: Use for books that are part of a collection and are used to teach primary school s
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
smart www.moneysmart.gov.au/teaching/teaching-resources The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has developed a range of financial literacy resources for primary, secondary and community educators. Subject matter is aligned to the Australian Curriculum and the resources feature di
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
of resources, information and guidelines relating to early childhood students. Content includes emotional wellbeing, health conditions, language and literacy development, hygiene, and physical activity. SCIS No. 5363629 FIRST LANGUAGES AUSTRALIA https://www.firstlanguages.org.au This