Everything has changed since information became available to all on the internet. Not so much changed as exploded. When something explodes, it shatters into countless pieces which means the whole we used to know needs to be re-examined. Why are we still looking at the old ways of teaching, the old focus of our instruction, [...]
Archive for June, 2010
TLs, expand your field of vision
Posted in 21st century learning, network literacy, Teacher librarians, Web 2.0, tagged digital literacy, information, information literacy, research, role, Teacher librarians on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When failure means growth
Posted in networking, tagged community, failure, job, learning, network on June 29, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Photo courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales on flickr Today I found out that I didn’t get the teacher librarian position I’d recently applied for in a girls’ secondary school. Initially I was undecided about applying for the position and upsetting my world with change, then I decided that I’d go for [...]
Five Card Flickr – what a great lesson
Posted in 21st century learning, flickr, Web 2.0, writing, tagged five card flickr, flickr, images, publishing, story, writing on June 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Teaching is such an up and down thing. I always hesitate to say ‘teaching’ because I’m a teacher librarian, and we don’t teach the same way teachers teach. Our role is so diverse, and we are sometimes seen in the classroom and other times seen at our computers, madly reading or researching and creating stuff [...]
Collaborate with an artist to write an online story – Storybird
Posted in Collaboration, creativity, technology, Web 2.0, writing, tagged art, collaboration, e-books, English, ESL, languages, LOTE, storybird, writing, writing prompt on June 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This has been cross-posted from Storyteller. Thanks to Judith @brightideasblog for the Storybird tip. Storybird is a very easy way of creating an e-story using picture sets shared by various artists. It’s easy and it’s cool. This would be an enjoyable writing exercise in the English, LOTE or ESL classroom. Once you have an account, [...]
The new language – it’s more than just smiley faces
Posted in 21st century learning, writing, tagged adolescents, emoticons, Jenny Luca, language, texting, writing on June 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I was just reading Silvia Tolisano’s post on her Langwitches blog about 21st century writing. My children (16, 18, 20) are writing more and more. Their friends do too… Probably not in the way some of you can imagine… nor think of as writing…but nonetheless they are writing. They are texting… 8000 texts (per month) [...]
How does my Art wiki grow
Posted in art, tagged animation, art, Design, examples, images, learning, teaching, visual, wiki on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My art wiki is growing fat in places. I thought I’d point to the areas which have expanded the most in the hope of reaching Visual Arts teachers and students. The blogs page in Blogs and Nings has really expanded. Blogs are my favourite way of finding art resources since they often represent specialised interest [...]





