Thanks to my colleague Denise at my new school third term ended nicely with an excuse to revisit the City Library and come together with a largish group of people for an injection of ideas mixed with wine and a very impressive spread. This is what we attended – David Lee King – Digital Branch [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Trends, transformations, and change in libraries – David Lee King and Hamish Curry at the City Library
Posted in Events, Uncategorized, tagged #valalib11, city library, david lee king, digital, hamish curry, librarians, libraries, networks, service on September 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
YouTube.com/Teachers is launched – let’s flip the classroom
Posted in news, tagged channel, teachers, tutorials, universities, videos, visual, visual learners, youtube on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking news: YouTube.com/Teachers has just been launched. This morning I read Will Houghteling’s announcement in the Google Certified Teacher Group – This morning we launched YouTube.com/Teachers as a resource for educators everywhere to learn how to use YouTube as an educational tool. There are lesson plan suggestions, highlights of great educational content on YouTube, and training on how [...]
More about LibGuides for the teacher librarian
Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
LibGuides Intro from Springshare on Vimeo. Since Joyce Valenza’s recent visit to Australia and her inspirational demonstration of her school library’s online resources using LibGuides, our team at Melbourne High School have been determined to revamp the tired library pages. Creating attractive and user-friendly web pages and integrating online resources is so easy with LibGuides. [...]
New start – second week at Melbourne High School
Posted in news, tagged apple, change, creative writing, ipads, new, professional development, school on September 5, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Photo courtesy of Jose Cuervo Elorza on Flickr As far as new starts go, this one feels good. Not one to go with the flow of things usually, change for me is often like a dentist’s visit I want to avoid. I admit the first few days weighed a little heavily with new procedures, finding [...]





