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By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 136, Term 1, 2026

your library management system. Select ‘Connections Term 1 2026’ and click on the Download button. BBC Learning Hub Year levels: Students and teachers SCIS ID: 5552901 URL: gotlearning.com/blogs/gotfeedback Gotfeedback is an AI driven feedback resource for teachers. The premise is

Transmedia storytelling: narratives like real life

By Martin Gray

Issue 95, Term 4 2015

to fix everyone's life – which won several Streamy Awards. The adaptation and cross-platform approach is clearly working. I have managed to get a few teachers and students addicted to the shows, even watching interviews with the actors talking about the adaptations. Their latest offering is based

The value of social history

By Sandra Watkins

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

to operate the laptop, leaving you free for questioning and crowd control. The larger screen gives everyone a good view. Of course, no good lawyer or teacher asks a question to which they don’t already know several answers, so it helps to do some preliminary research yourself. Follow research thre

Lending an ear for literacy

By Leah Sheldon, Janine Sigley

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

ustralian schools. When Brock was seven years old and in Year 2, he was chosen for the Story Dogs reading program because he was a non-reader. His teachers were very concerned as Brock had been diagnosed as autistic, and they doubted if he would be able to progress at the same rate as his peers.

Learning online: MOOCs for library staff

By Martin Gray

Issue 90, Term 3 2014

With teachers being required to take on regular professional development, but often being both time and funding poor, many educators are turning to the phenomenon of the Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC. A MOOC is a form of distance education which can be studied at a student's own pace and i

Cybersmart Digital Citizenship

By Kellie Britnell

Issue 93, Term 2 2015

nment's commitment to cybersafety. The program is specifically designed to meet the needs of its target audiences of children, young people, parents, teachers and library staff. Cybersmart digital citizenship is about confident and positive engagement with digital technology. A Cybersmart digital c

An African library journey

By Cheryl Lopez

Issue 93, Term 2 2015

ies. The school receives no government funding and survives solely on sponsorships and donations I spent the next six months consulting with fellow teacher librarians, Yared, and the current Australian Advisor at the school. I decided that an automated library system would not work in this situati

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

scribe to SCIS. In 1999 over 4 million cataloguing records were downloaded from SCISWeb and SCISCO, saving Australian schools in the order of $30M of Teacher Librarian time. Indications are that many more schools will move from the CD product to the Web, providing real evidence that Australian schoo

Facing the 21st Century: The First International Conference of Jewish Pedagogic Centers

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

uding USA, Israel, England, Canada, South Africa, Greece, Denmark, Russia and many South American countries, to discuss Jewish education, the role of teachers' centres and resources. Attending this conference was like being at the United Nations. Translators sat in booths at the rear of each room

Content is King, but Content Management Rules

By Colin Bell

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

to learning, teaching and innovation. One such technology has been trialed and documented in Queensland by Stuartholme School. SCIS recognises that Teacher Librarians have always been 'content managers'. We try to show how this view translates to an increasingly digital environment. SCIS assists s

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By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

ation systems are on our website at <http://www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/links/libauto.htm>. If you have other documents that would be useful for other Teacher Librarians, please forward them to SCIS with written permission for us to publish them on our website. 7. Farewell - staff change We sadly

School library spotlight: Good Shepherd Catholic School

By Helen Tomazin

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

and procedures and generate overdue reports. My main focus is to 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 locatin

How to boost your digital literacy confidence

By Sally Pewhairangi

Issue 106, Term 3 2018

Hands up if you have ever had thoughts like these: I wish I didn’t feel out of my depth when a teacher asks me to find additional sources (such as case studies or videos) for their class assignment. If I was more confident in my presentation skills, I would show other teacher librarians how w

School library spotlight: Toowoomba State High School

By Lorraine Petersen

Issue 113, Term 2 2020

I’m the Textbook Hire Library Coordinator at Toowoomba State High School. I am studying a Diploma of Library and Information Services, and work as a teacher aide four mornings a week in the Textbook Hire division of our library. My work there focuses on the provision and maintenance of prescribed l

Looking for silver linings: Educating about privacy and security in our increasingly online world

By Dr Kay Oddone

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

plicitly taught, with the assumption that students would be connecting with the internet and using devices provided by the school. When students (and teachers) began using their home networks, and accessing learning using a wide range of devices, it became apparent that we must educate ourselves and

Celebrating 80 years of Puffin

By Dot Tonkin

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

inalia, a magazine that included stories from young readers. Nearly half a century later, many of those magazines are treasured keepsakes, with a few teacher librarians recently saying that they’d kept all of their copies! I love thinking that perhaps that little magazine, which helped launch so man

Andrew Smith, CEO of Education Services Australia, on data security and privacy in schools

By Andrew Smith

Issue 119, Term 4 2021

t without risk.  The global COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented disruption to Australia’s system of classroom-based learning, forcing teachers to rapidly adapt to new methods of digital pedagogy, resulting almost overnight in a rapid expansion in the use of education technology produ

Decodables - they're a thing, right?

By Sarah Handscomb

Issue 120, Term 1 2022

igh-quality Systematic Synthetic Phonics instruction is underpinned by the cognitive science of how children learn to read and spell. The role of the teacher is to explicitly ‘unlock’ the code in a logical and sequential way. Children need lots of practice to apply their developing knowledge and cod

Connecting through couch co-op: the important role of school libraries for social gaming groups

By Matthew Harrison, Jess Rowlings

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

h the time spent in front of a screen, interacting through and around the virtual worlds designed by people who we would likely never meet. Now, as a teacher and a speech pathologist working together to change the norms around social capacity building programs, we use cooperative video games to prov

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

has travelled far and wide across Australia, as well as venturing to the UK, engaging with our customers. Our travels started in Canberra for the Teacher Librarian Professional Learning Community conference, in mid-May. The conference theme was Capitalising on non-fiction in a digital age. SCIS