Category Archives: Library

NEW SERIES – TOMORROW GIRLS & OUR AUSTRALIAN GIRL

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Our Australian Girl

Our Australian Girl series are written by a Australian authors (like the Aussie Nibbles series) with the added bonus of being Australian and filled with history. Fantastic for teaching the Australian Curriculum. They have been described as character based Australian novels.

Read more about these books at Penguin’s website Our Australian Girl series. Read extracts from the books here.

The Tomorrow series

The Tomorrow Girls series is for older girls.  Read the review here for Behind the Gates (1st in the series). It reminds me a bit of the Tomorrow series by John Marsden.

 

Bloom’s!

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One of my favourite ways to differentiate in the classroom is to design inquiry using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Colleen Young has gathered some of the many resources created to support the teaching with Bloom’s into her LIVEBINDER simply called Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Rethink your teaching and use Bloom’s as just one of the tools to support your students with ICT and Information Literacy!

Curation tools for Students & Teachers

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Don’t Bookmark, Curate Online Content

“A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online. I have been testing a few online curation tools and here’s a quick review of them all to help you pick the right one for your needs.”
Blog post by Amit Agarwal (Digital Inspiration)

Joyce Valenza also discusses the place of curation tools in researching.She called curation “the new search tool“.

AND check out this LIVEBINDER by Carolyn Jo Starkey.

This concept seems like a great way to share easily from many places.
I use a variety of tools but this seems like the way to go. Anything that makes researching and collaboration simpler is a good idea.

Image Source
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8f3oOk91HCY/TOFCOIxOgDI/AAAAAAAAHIg/5QEF1bzk8A8/s400/searching-for-info.jpg

Immanuel’s digital story for ISTE 2011

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View the digital story of the tablet program at Immanuel Lutheran College.

Cheryl Fillmore and Lee Bond, from Immanuel Lutheran College (Maroochydore), will be presenting at ISTE 2011.

“Digital story of the 2010 HP/ISTE tablet project. Systemic change, development of two new buildings and an exciting future project.”

http://youtu.be/8uP9yAllSiM

If you liked it then vote for it!

Shaun Tan – The Lost Thing book rap

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Do you love Shaun Tan books? Do you love picture books? Are you creative and love writing stories?

Then this website might be for you.
Shaun Tan rap

“A rap for Stages 3 and 4 English. Activities focus on the Oscar award winning The lost thing animation and picture book. Share ideas. Create stories.”

Source
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/index.htm