ETL523 Digital Citizenship in Schools: Steve Wheeler Reflection.

  After watching Steve Wheeler’s (2015) keynote address I reflected on my recent casual teaching day, teaching Year 6. During Maths, students had to use problem solving to draw a perfect pentagon with equal sides and angles. What was a simple instruction turned out to take most of the lesson. Students were challenged, engaged and […]

September Reflection ETL402

Building on my inquiry into helping students develop a love of reading. (See August Reflection  ETL402 Post ) It dawned on me that TL’s have the unique opportunity to get to know all the students in the school and tap into their interests as they grow and develop over their years at school, unlike a […]

August Reflection ETL402

August Reflection I stated in my introductory post of our discussion forum at the beginning of the session that “one of the most challenging issues we can face as TL’s is when we are confronted with a capable reader who isn’t interested in books and reading. I hope this subject will provide insight and strategies […]

ETL401 Introduction to Teacher Librarianship Assessment Item 3 Part C

Inquiry learning, information literacy and the role of the Teacher Librarian. One of the joys of being a teacher librarian is facilitating students in developing skills in information literacy as they develop lifelong learning habits.  An old Chinese proverb says,  You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation […]

Creative Commons

Copyright and Creative Commons This blog will give you a brief introduction to Creative Commons and how it relates to copyright. To understand how useful Creative Commons is for the ‘Teacher Librarian’ is its important to first understand copyright. What is copyright? Australian copyright law can simply be defined as the rights attributed to certain […]

ETL401 Part C: Peer Review

Peer Review Posted for Michelle  Plant. Blogger of Between Books. http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/teacherlibrarianlearningnet/2018/03/04/etl401-part-b-blog-post/   Hi Michelle, I appreciate the clean, easy to read, simplicity of your well-designed Between Books blog site. It appears well organised with structures put in place for easy navigation and perusal.   I enjoyed reading your personal experiences as a TL overseas in […]