ETL503 Teaching Digital Citizenship? Common Sense Education will help.

About to teach Digital Citizenship? Common Sense Education is a fantastic website with resources for teachers such as lesson plans and professional development links that may be useful. Common Sense Education. (n.d.). K-12 Digital citizenship curriculum scope and sequence. Retrieved from: https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence

ETL503 Copyright and Netflix

News Flash! Roald Dahl is coming to Netflix! Module 4 – Copyright Recent buzz on social media from the announcement by Netflix that they are about to create an exclusive animated series of popular works by Roald Dahl has caught the attention of the teaching profession. This prompted debate amongst teachers on popular Facebook groups […]

ETL503 Copyright-Disability Access Exception

Module 4 COPYRIGHT Disability Access Exceptions Providing access to content via alternative formats for students with disabilities if the copyright material is not commercially available in the format required and with the appropriate features is now law enforceable. There is no restriction on the kind of format that can be created under this exception. There […]

ETL503 Forum 2.1 Selection and AITSL Standards

FORUM 2.2 Module 2.1 Selection and AITSL Standards   The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (2014) states that all teachers should have the ability to “select and use resources” (Standard 3.4)   When the TL collaborates with teachers in resourcing the curriculum and meeting the needs of the teacher, the TL needs to have knowledge […]

ETL503 Forum discussion on Patron-driven Acquisition

  FORUM POST 2.1   I summarised 5 key points. This article gave great insight on demand-driven acquisition(DDA).   A way to supplement conventional collection development User-centred Shift from “just-in-case” to DDA Budget dependable Influences future purchases   Kwok, C. S. Y., Chan, D. L. H., Cheung, A. S. M., & Wong, M. K. (2014). […]

ETL503 Resourcing the Curriculum: Managing the Budget

MODULE 3 Managing a Budget Lamb and Johnson (2012) outline three specific roles TL’s need in their professional tool belt to effectively manage the school library budget, the collaborator, the steward and the thinker.   The Collaborator Working as an effective leader, TL’s need to work collaboratively with fellow staff and executive leadership, developing knowledge […]

ETL 503 Resourcing the Curriculum: Selection Criteria

BLOG ETL503 Resourcing the Curriculum   Module 2 Resource Selection We were asked to come up with our own selection decision making model or flowchart that considers a more complex set of choices and criteria after reading Hughes-Hassell & Mancall (2005). I thought this was a simple enough task and knowing I would be making […]

ETL402 Reflective Blog (Assignment 2)

I have always had deep conviction that literature has a powerful influence on the reader. Used as a teaching tool and purely as a pleasurable shared experience, literature has the ability to connect students to new learning experiences without realising their thinking is being challenged and new schemas are being formed. Murdoch (2015) supports this […]