Next year the Year 7s at our school will be bringing their iPads to school. This is part of the plan to answer the Big Question presented to our teachers at the end of 2011 – How does Vermont Secondary College better prepare its student and teachers to meet the challenges of the 21st Century? [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ICT Used and Trusted'
Toolbox: e5 iPad Apps
June 17, 2012 · 10 Comments · Future Directions, ICT for Teaching and Learning, ICT Used and Trusted, Teacher Librarian as Leader, Uncategorized
FYI: on Growing Personal Learning Environments
March 1, 2012 · No Comments · Accessing information (ETL 505), Future Directions, ICT Used and Trusted, PD on the side, Teacher Librarian as Leader
The latest issue of FYI recently arrived in the post. Yay! FYI is the quarterly journal of SLAV (School Library Association of Victoria). This is the issue that focussed on Learning Communities and featured the article I wrote last year about Personal Learning Environments for students. We concentrated on Year 9′s last year as part [...]
Tags:information·leadership·Library 2.0·organization·Personal Learning Enviroment·PLE·problem solving·professional development·Web 2.0
Presenting my Prezi
April 3, 2011 · No Comments · ICT Used and Trusted, Uncategorized
Term 1, Week 9 I don’t know how many dead dull powerpoint presentations I’ve had to endure in my life but I’m sure I’m not alone. When I saw Prezi’s introduction video – it was love at first site (sorry the pun was intended). Prezi has real razzamatazz; it allows you to create presentations that [...]
Tags:communication·information literacy·Library 2.0·presentations·resources·Web 2.0
Plan B: Breaking-out the video clips for Book Club
March 1, 2011 · No Comments · ICT Used and Trusted, Uncategorized
Early Week 4, Term 1 I’m not sure if they were just being nice to the ‘new girl’ but I’ve really lucked out – I get to run lunchtime Book Club at my new school! Last week 30 or so enthusiastic readers and web addicts showed up and we talked about what the ‘veterans’ had [...]
Tags:book trailers·literature promotion·problem solving·reading

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