Welcome to School Libraries and Information Literacy

Interested in collaborative learning and teaching for the connected environment? Want a 21C school library that meets the needs of today’s learners? A library that supports digital age information literacies and reading?

Try this guided tour to explore these pages for state wide policy advice, practical teaching and learning ideas, using resources and digital tools for exciting learning, programming suggestions for information literacies for all learning areas, resource reviews, and information on SCIS and Scan.

New Scan site now live. Subscribe now so you don’t miss out on the innovative Scan 2012!

NSW Department of Education and Training supports National Year of Reading 2012. Join a reading adventure! rap starts 26 March. It’s a grab bag of exciting reading activities and ideas K-10.

e-resources: a taster of possibilities and issues offers some background information about issues, potential resources and sample SCIS FAQs followed by some personal reflections from reviewers of e-resources and e-books. Ask your school library for Scan to see more articles and reviews, search the online reviews database and TaLe for more.

Envisioning school libraries: School libraries 21c, Dr Ross Todd’s and Lyn Hay’s report of the of the 2009 School libraries 21C online discussion, is available. School libraries 21C: the conversation begins, the executive summary of the report, is also available.

A taster of connected learning from Scan! See teaching ideas for using OneNote to organise information in Sally Rasaiah’s Students create OneNote digital notebooks as a prepublication, organisational tool.

Copyright help for students & teachers - SMART Notebook.
This comprehensive resource is 80.7 MB in size - please allow for significant download time.

Opportunities to spend a day with Dr Ross Todd:

21C school libraries: getting into the action! One day seminar presented by Syba Signs in partnership with School Libraries & Information Literacy Unit. Register at Syba Signs.

Web 2.0 tools in the information skills process: Sites2See is available.

Digital Education Revolution - NSW support material is now live. Clickable Links4Learning are included, and are also now live in My library. Adding the SCIS records to your catalogue is recommended. Check the updated FAQ Websites - downloading SCIS records. See also the latest OASIS release notes.

COGs resource list

ISP K-6 matrix: COGs planning support: linking syllabus outcomes, information skills and ICT

Links4Learning now available in My library. See more Links4Learning information. Also available in My library are:

PRC matches for the 2009 lists
Reading list for matches for the HSC English Area of Study: Belonging
Select the list in OASIS H3 management to provide lists for your library

For ideas about making the most of the OASIS Library browser and using the Web Filter check see the articles on OASIS Web Enquiry.

Teaching support and ideas include:

HSC English Area of Study: Belonging resource list
Raps and book raps: blogs are now used to host the discussion. Some wiki activities also being included. See the exciting raps still to come in 2009 - great resources for connected learning
more information skills and teaching ideas for today’s learners
copyright information and links

Connected Classrooms creating learning communities using video conferencing technology and Quality Teaching, in Scan 27.4, showcases the potential of IWBs and video conferencing tools to enhance and enrich learning. More support for connected classrooms:
· Hot topic on social media and literacies. Take eight minutes to watch the video! While there check out the other Hot topics. Do you have a suggested Hot topic? Or some news you d like to share? If so contact Colleen Foley
· more teaching ideas

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