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Professional Reflective Portfolio

Part A Personal Philosophy – what makes an effective Teacher Librarian? Effective Teacher Librarians (TL) work collaboratively within a school to ensure that they support the vision of the school community. TL’s are responsible for ensuring students are explicitly taught … Continue reading

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Research Proposal

    Table of Contents   Identification of Topic. 2 Literature Review.. 4 Benefits of audiobooks for English as an Additional Language or Dialect students  4 Benefits of audiobooks for students with learning difficulties/disabilities. 5 Gaps and Research Question. 6 … Continue reading

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Literature Analysis and Research Question.

Proposed Topic   Audiobooks are described as a digitized work. Digitized works are defined as a work conceived for another medium, such as the printed medium (Bouchard and Heckmann 2012). The Association of American Publishers found that the audiobook market … Continue reading

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Professional Placement Report.

Section 1: The placement organisation. Inner West Libraries (IWL) provides a comprehensive service to a large and diverse range of individuals and groups in the Inner West local government area. IWL had over 96,000 registered members 2018-2019 (State Library of … Continue reading

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Virtual Study Visits Blog Post: What role does technology play in the relationship information agencies develop with their users?

ETL 507 – Blog Post: What role does technology play in the relationship information agencies develop with their users?   The provision of access to information is the core mission of all libraries and information agencies (Garrudi & Wyber, 2019, … Continue reading

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ETL 402 – Reflections.

At the beginning of my ETL 402 journey, I will admit I had very little understanding of the difference between literacy learning and literary learning or the importance of selecting books to engage students in sustained enjoyable reading (Dunn, 2020a). … Continue reading

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ETL 402 – Assign 2

Literary Learning Program: Year 10 History – Rights and Freedoms.   Rational.   Providing students with high quality reading material creates literary development and motivates students to engage in more complex literature (Cornett, 2014). It is the role of the … Continue reading

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ETL402 – Assign 1

Graphic Novels – The Superheroes of the Library Collection.   Abstract   In the past, graphic novels were seen as the comic book character Robin of the fiction world, however, today graphic novels are now gaining their own spotlight as … Continue reading

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Children’s Literature.

At its most basic children’s literature is any form of literature that has been written with the intended audience of children in mind. Within this classification there are inevitably various groupings including books for babies, young children, middle grade and … Continue reading

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The Changing of the Book.

Ferguson, D. (2020). in her article states that ‘children today are reading less and finding less enjoyment from reading than in previous generations’, this is a contradiction to author Khyiah Angel (as cited in Taylor, 2018) where she found ‘that … Continue reading

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