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Issue 71 Summary
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Issue 71, Term 4 2009
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Twitter for libraries (and librarians) Sarah Milstein, Author Do you want kids to be safe online? Loosen those filters! Mary Ann Bekll, Sam Houston State University Rearrange the fu
Issue 70 Summary
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Issue 70, Term 3 2009
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Four functions in one label: RFID system top of its class Fran Walsh, Geelong Grammar Library trainees are a great asset Sharyn Anderson, Brauer College Learning and Teaching Resource
Issue 69 Summary
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Issue 69, Term 2 2009
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Widgets and widgetry for librarians: copy, paste and relax Aaron Schmidt, via MultiMedia and Internet @ Schools . Softly, softly: the library’s role in staff professional development
Issue 68 Summary
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Issue 68, Term 1 2009
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Learning NOT to answer their questions Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix Games in the library Susan O'Grady, Christ the King School, NSW From illuminated manuscript to iPod – copyright solu
Issue 67 Summary
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Issue 67, Term 4 2008
Please note 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
Issue 66 Summary
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Issue 66, Term 3 2008
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in the issue include: A librarian’s worst nightmare Jacob Leibenluft, via Slate Teens and social networking in libraries Via YALSA Customising Web searching for students Scott Moller, Cannon Hill A
Issue 65 Summary
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Issue 65, Term 2 2008
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in the issue include: Turn a threat into an opportunity via Teacher Librarian Information skills, technology and innovation Abstracts from Curriculum Leadership Journal Tapping the potential of stud
Issue 64 Summary
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Issue 64, Term 1 2008
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: The 2006 copyright amendments – all under control? Ian McDonald, Australian Copyright Council Reviving my inner librarian Helen Dacy, St Joseph
Issue 63 Summary
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Issue 63, Term 4 2007
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Need support and advice? Network! Pamela Rushby, Author Teacher librarian exchange to Canada 2006 Christa Mood, Narooma High School ABS brings data to life in the classroom
Issue 62 Summary
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Issue 62, Term 3 2007
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Graphic attraction – graphic novels in libraries Allison Lee, Emanuel School, NSW Exchange – to give and receive reciprocally Karen Lindsay, Ecole Reynolds Secondary School, Canada
Issue 61 Summary
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Issue 61, Term 2 2007
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Competing in a Google world Catherine Leonard, Softlink NZ Creating a literate school community Marj Kirkland, Aquinas College, QLD SCIS news APEC – Strengthening our Communit
Issue 60 Summary
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Issue 60, Term 1 2007
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Crime or confusion – why do students plagiarise? Di Wilson, Presbyterian Ladies College, VIC Inside a dog Mike Shuttleworth, State Library of Victoria 21st century students – a da
Issue 59 Summary
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Issue 59, Term 4 2006
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Wikis and blogs in the classroom Joyce Kasman Valenza, Springfield Township High School, USA Generating change through professional development Dr Linda Selby and Elizabeth Probert, Au
It’s time: let’s improve schools' perceptions of teacher librarians
By Bev Novak
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
I recently noticed that a 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:
Stopping the slide: improving reading rates in the middle school
By Narelle Keen
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
At each end-of-year assembly, I give out our Champion Reader Award to students in the junior college who have borrowed more than 120 books throughout the year, and to students in the middle and senior college who have borrowed more than 50 books. In our junior college, we always have large numbers
School libraries supporting literacy
By Stephanie Ellis
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
Makerspaces. Innovative learning environments. Online communities. Augmented realities. Digital citizenship. In these times of rapidly changing technologies, increasing amounts of information, and often futile attempts to keep up with the latest trends in school librarianship, it is sometimes handy
School library spotlight: Melbourne High School
By Pam Saunders
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
In this issue of Connections , we introduce a new regular feature, ‘School library spotlight’. This article gives us an opportunity to interview school library staff, so we can share with our readers what is happening within school libraries in Australia and New Zealand. Do you have any quest
An inquiry-based approach to exploring Australian history
By Deborah Abela
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
In the last few years, we have witnessed the largest movement of people since World War II, and both periods resonate with themes of fear, persecution, escape, identity, and hope. This made me think of my own family’s history and how, when my father was a young boy, he left his war-ravaged home of
The lowdown on authorities and authority files
By Doreen Sullivan
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
You’ve probably heard the term ‘authority files’ used in reference to cataloguing. You might know that they have nothing to do with the long arm of the law, but that’s about it. Or maybe you do know about authorities, but suspect they are something arcane best left to a secret enclave of cataloguer
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
Welcome to Connections 99. Every year during September and October, SCIS sends out subscription renewals to all schools not covered by a bulk licence arrangement. If you are not on a bulk-deal arrangement and have not yet received your invoice, please ensure your administrators know it will be c