Building Trust and Collaboration

Building Trust and Collaboration

In Ezard’s (2015) YouTube clip, she focused on the importance of building trust and collaboration, for the benefit of establishing quality relationships. Trust floods the brain with oxytocin and dopamine, which opens it up to collaborative learning opportunities and problem-solving. Alternatively, distrust raises levels of adrenaline and cortisol, which shuts the brain down, causing it […]

The Importance of Understanding Information Resource Description

Importance of Cataloging

Most schools (such as my own NSW Department of Education primary school), use SCIS for their catalogue record data. It is important to recognise that although teacher librarians (generally) don’t create this metadata utilised in library systems (such as Oliver), they need to have a comprehensive understanding of information resource description. Rowe (2022, Module 1) […]