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Letters to the Editor

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

thport School Dear Ms Lewis, The School Library Associations of SA Committee is made up of the three committees of professional associations for teacher-librarians in South Australia: ALIA Schools section, Resource Centre Teachers Association (an association of the South Australian Institute of

Resources

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

.80 (1 copy per quarter), institution $74.80 (4 copies per quarter) EQ Australia is a quarterly journal tackling issues of day-to-day importance to teachers and educators. Published by people in education for people in education, EO Australia offers in-depth discussion and broad perspectives acros

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

is. He is the only one of us who is genuinely regarded as a guru by his peers. I sometimes, in moments of weakness, agree to speak to conferences of Teacher Librarians. When I do, they wait impatiently through what I have to say, then all ask questions about Lance. 'How is Lance?' 'He was looking

Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT): Read all over

By Les Kneebone

Issue 91, Term 4 2014

ducation resources. ScOT tagging of the two final learning areas, Languages and Work Studies, is in progress. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers The 'Teacher standards' have recently been migrated onto the PoolParty platform and are hosted at Australian Education Vocabularies ( AEV )

Reviews

By George Przywolnik

Issue 33, Term 2 2000

with such occasional minor problems. Such errors may arise in part from the difficulty of simplifying complex ideas (as the renowned physicist and teacher Richard Sears once wrote, 'Teaching thermal physics is as easy as a song. You think you make it simple when you make it slightly wrong'). The

Books Aren't Dead!

By Staff Methodist Ladies College

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

'Leading the Way -Forming an Information Literate School Community' hosted at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne in May and attended by over 250 teachers, librarians and principals. Jamie McKenzie, from the USA, is recognised as a leading educational thinker and, since 1991, has published and e

Online Encyclopaedias

By Nigel Paull

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

tures streaming audio and video, the ability to print sections of an article, articles from daily, weekly and monthly publications, study aids, maps, teacher resources and links to Internet sites that have been selected and monitored by their editorial staff. The innovative Grolier Online contains

SCISWeb is a Winner

By Fay Gardiner

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

he backlog that had accumulated in quite a wondrous way considering I had run out of money about June. How could I forget that the forces that thwart Teacher Librarians' good intentions live and breed in the heady world of books? My problems were associated with machines (dating back only to the beg

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Lance Deveson

Issue 17, Term 2 1996

om INTERNET Addresses via KEVLINK Keylink can send and receive mail from other Users who have Internet Email addresses. To SEND to these schools, teacher /librarians, all you need to do is to know their Internet address and Add that to your SCISLINK Address book, within the FILE menu. For exam

Have you Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

s. Some interesting articles have appeared recently on this topic. Using bulletin boards to exchange classroom resources by John Widmer discusses why teachers should be using this electro~ic medium to share information. (Compak, no 3, June 1993, p 72-76.) If you feel inclined to have a go, Telecompu

Search

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

d Computer Software Review. The result is sent to the user in a professional print format. The service can be used as a buying guide. It can enable teacher librarians and librarians to buy resources by selecting from the list rather than be restricted to material available from the normal sources

Marketing your school library

By Andrew Downie

Issue 110, Term 3 2019

e you heard a school library professional make a comment such as, ‘My school leadership team doesn’t understand my role or the value it brings’. As a teacher librarian with long experience working both as a teacher librarian and in an education sales environment, this question is close to my heart.

Education Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey 2020–21

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 117, Term 2 2021

was reported that 31 per cent of respondents had participated in ELR in previous years. Of survey respondents, 26 per cent identified themselves as teacher librarians, 30 per cent as library officers, 16 per cent as library technicians and 17 per cent as librarians. Other people who completed the

Website and app reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

Canva for education www.canva.com/education Canva offers K–12 students and teachers free access to their templates for worksheets, lesson plans, reports and presentations. Also available are fonts, images and details on how to create and share assignments. SCIS no: 5394929 Hot topics

The Question of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By Catherine Barnes

Issue 125, Term 2 2023

as we once taught lessons on ‘how to Google’, we need to work with students to develop their questioning skills, not just their search skills. As a teacher of secondary students, I have spent recent weeks engaging with students to develop research questions, and sub-questions, for a major assessme

Collaborative learning with Scootle Community

By Leigh Murphy

Issue 91, Term 4 2014

unded by the Australian Government and developed in collaboration with the Australian teaching profession, Scootle Community is a private space for teachers to give and receive advice and information online. The platform's search functionality enables educators to locate curriculum resources and

School library spotlight: Melbourne High School

By Pam Saunders

Issue 99, Term 4 2016

a blend of management, including supervising the day-to-day running of the library and overseeing the strategic direction, and library promotion. The teacher librarians and I offer curriculum support and collaborate with teachers to support student learning. I am also a Year 12 Form teacher, and jo

School library spotlight: Chisholm Catholic College

By Monique McQueen

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

What is your job title, and what does your role entail? My name is Monique McQueen and I am a teacher librarian at Chisholm Catholic College, a secondary Brisbane Catholic Education school. My role is to manage the library program and staff; supervise the day-to-day running of the library; reso

New Zealand News

By Jenny Carroll

Issue 23, Term 4 1997

aland is currently working on a research project looking specifically at information literacy in our primary schools. She recently held workshops for teachers and librarians at Otago and Southland and it was interesting to hear her ideas for implementing info-lit programs. The most successful progra

What's New?

By Nigel Paull

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

and your kids: how to choose the best computer and software for your family, would be a worthy addition to a school or professional library. A former teacher and computer consultant, Glover now writes weekly columns in the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as other specialist computer magazines. This u