Search results
Website and App reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 119, Term 4 2021
logy, over 3 million volunteers worldwide are available to individually assist the visually impaired or blind with a variety of tasks. These include: reading small print; sorting clothes by colour; reading screens; or operating ticket and vending machines. SCIS no: 5378316 First Nations ht
School library spotlight: Yarra Valley Grammar
By Dr Mark Merry, Miriam Meehan
Issue 112, Term 1 2020
firm believer in the importance of space, and that’s why, when you come to Yarra Valley Grammar, the environment’s very important. If you sit in the reading room, for example, you’ve got this beautiful view over the grounds. It’s just a very positive space. In my own home, I read in my garden. That
A Question of Technology?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
chnology: Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School by Jamie McKenzie Ed.D. emphasises a central purpose of schools as improving the reading, writing and thinking of their students, and advises against being distracted by a focus on the wires, cables, laptops and desktops associated
Have You Read This?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 18, Term 3 1996
His interest is in the nature of information and imagination and their interface and how this impacts on the role of teacher librarians -interesting reading in the August 1996, issue p:25.
A Masters - What's The Point?
By Jan Barnett
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
The benefits (for me): being current in my professional reading in education, teacher librarianship and librarianship; gaining a sense of achievement; having empathy with all students; improving my time management skills; having a current recognised qualification; being able to stud
A note from the editor
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
o say hello, share feedback, or respond to any ideas raised in Connections . Our inbox is always open, your feedback always welcome. Thank you for reading, and we hope you enjoy this issue.
School libraries then and now - in the digital environment
By Lance Deveson
Issue 120, Term 1 2022
visited it out of class times to read, relax, play quiet games, ‘chill out’ and feel safe. The school library encouraged: belonging books and reading - still a major reason for visiting the library relaxing and recharging staff – trained teacher librarians – seen as friendly, caring sta
School library spotlight: Newtown public school
By Lucy White
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
ith me for a couple of hours a week, but without her I’d be drowning in unshelved books and unfinished jobs. Thank you, Di! How do you promote reading and literacy in your school? Are there any challenges in doing so? Our staff are wonderful role models and advocates for reading for pleasur
Diverse titles are finding their homes in libraries
By Crystal Corocher
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
that in those preceding two years while the process of shepherding the work to life continued for acquiring publisher, Wombat Books, both buying and reading trends have continued to shift. What is evident is that Giovann i – and books like it – are not merely a conciliatory reflex to pressure an
School library spotlight: Strathtulloh Primary School
By Krista Thomas
Issue 129, Term 2 2024
ary? The students. Absolutely, the students. They’re also some of the most challenging aspects, but when you get a student who says, ‘I don’t like reading’ or ‘There aren’t any books that I like’ and you say, ‘Oh, OK, but have you tried this?’ and they come back to you two weeks later and say, ‘H
Guerrilla book fair: getting staff involved in your school library
By Lucas Maxwell
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
My first meetings were with the English department, primarily so I could introduce myself. In those meetings I was able to throw around a few ideas: reading logs, research lessons, competitions — all things that would require no extra work on their part. In addition, I also attend meetings with su
Reimagining the library landscape: an approach to school library design
By Anne Whisken
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
cular learning of the school. Its purpose also includes three particular goals: information literacy education, development of study skills, and wide reading promotion. From a library design and facilities management point of view, a secondary school library faces a particular user challenge — that
Ten ways to transform your library into a flexible learning space
By Liza Moss
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
I purchased lounge furniture on a two-for-one deal in comfortable cord of red, blue and green to coordinate with the library colours. A new area for reading was created and has become popular for small groups of teachers and senior students as well. Any furniture that was not needed was offered to
Professional Development
By Sue McKnight
Issue 16, Term 1 1996
nt relevant to school libraries. In fact, of the 1000+ delegates at the joint NZLIA/ ALIA Conference 1994, only thirteen teacher-librarians attended. Reading the Future, to be held in Melbourne later this year aims to be different. The ALIA '96 Conference Committee hopes to entice many teacher-l
Resources
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
ie McKenzie EdD $38.10 ISBN: 0967 407 826 SCIS order no: 1000658 Beyond Technology emphasises that a central purpose of schools is to improve the reading, writing and thinking of their students and advises against being distracted by a focus on the wires, cables, laptops and desktops associated
School libraries: miracles and madness
By Jackie French
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
o thinks books are boring that their teacher librarian, their teacher, or I (as a last resort) can find them a book they love so much they can’t stop reading it — and that they will immediately want another book. Somewhere, past the small mob of boys at the front, the teacher librarian is grinning.
Supporting Australian book creators
By Ruilin Shi (with thanks to Jeannie Baker)
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
ng her to a path of book creation. As a young child, Jeannie well remembers ‘the sense of comfort and excitement of listening to her mother’s voice reading a story from a library book before falling asleep’. Her father worked hard to make ends meet. They did not have the money to spare on buying b
Increase your digital resources for free with the SCIS Collections
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 129, Term 2 2024
is a curated selection of some of the 70,000 free ebooks provided by Project Gutenberg online, most of which are classic titles outside copyright Reading Australia These collections include work units created by teachers for teachers. The different work units introduce classrooms to a select
The end of an era
By Michelle Harvey
Issue 93, Term 2 2015
2004, our list had increased to include distribution partners for a range of national and international publishers such as: Stenhouse, International Reading Association, Australian Children's Television Foundation, Hawker Brownlow Education, and Pembroke Publishers, to name a few. We were also able
It’s time: let’s improve schools' perceptions of teacher librarians
By Bev Novak
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
in the classroom, teachers act as role models on how best to utilise the skills of teacher librarians. The core ‘business’ of teacher librarians is reading and literacy. Locating the right book at the right time for an individual child or teacher is a skill that should be highly valued and utilise