Scan contents Vol 28 (2009)
Appearing below will be the annotations to Scan articles arranged separately by each issue from Volume 28 (2009), arranged alphabetically by author.
Links to other current Volumes and the Scan Archive:
Vol 27 (2008)
Scan Archive covering Vols 25-26 (2006-2007)
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Links to individual Issues for Vol 28 (2009):
Vol 28 No 1 February 2009
Vol 28 No 2 May 2009
Vol 28 No 3 August 2009
Vol 28 No 4 November 2009
Vol 28 No 1 February 2009
ANDREWS, Jennifer, (2009) ‘The eGATS! Online Program: an interactive online program for Gifted and Talented (GAT) primary students’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 38–39.
Jennifer, Acting Assistant principal at Drummond Memorial Public School, shares the success of an innovative online program to support GAT students in the New England region. The program operates in partnership with local high schools and provides opportunities for students to engage with like-minded students, and have expert feedback.
CAMILLERI, Maree (2009) ‘I have fun with faces: an interactive resource’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 9–11.
Maree, Senior Learning Design Officer for Centre for Innovative Learning (CLI), explains how this exciting new resource provides our youngest students with multiple modes for exploring and learning about their world.
The CENTRE for LEARNING INNOVATION team (CLI), (2009) ‘Fabulous flipcharts for IWBs’ in Scan 28(1) February, p. 17.
Hilary Hughes, Kevin O’Gorman and Linden Hyatt explain how to access Activstudio flipcharts on TaLe. Each Activstudio resource features comprehensive teaching notes which can be printed or used while teaching from the flipchart. This has relevance for using Smart Notebook tools with IWBs.
CHASE, Lizzie, (2009) ‘Beyond the review: People, perspectives, place, politics and power: always was, always will be...’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 18–21.
Lizzie, Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy, shares her ideas for using the DVD, They have come to stay, to support teaching and learning. The first episode in the documentary series, First Australians, it uses historical sources which have not generally been made available to many Australians.
DOWNIE, Andrew, (2009) ‘Cooperative partnerships: schools and public libraries’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 44–45.
Teacher librarian, Andrew, describes the valuable partnerships that have developed between the staff and students at his, and other local schools, and Fairfield City Library Service librarians, Jaqui Ayo and Yvonne Georgopoulos. Andrew provides an insight into the availability of resources beyond the school library for all library users.
GILKES, Mel (2009) ‘Leading the way: library sections of school websites’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 48–49.
Mel, Service Manager for the Schools Website service, Corporate Communication, provides some tips on how teacher librarians can start reflecting on organising content for the launch of the Schools Website service.
KEANE, Cath, (2009) ‘Focus on cooperative programming: different people, different stories’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 21–23.
Cath, Scan Editor, provides an example of teaching and learning support that focuses on using the first episode of the First Australians DVD to link the organising phase of the information skills process with Quality Teaching elements and ICT.
KIRK, Mandy, (2009) ‘A conversation with Isobelle Carmody’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 4–8.
Teacher librarian, Mandy, relates the proactive measures taken by Year 9 students to locate information about the author of The gathering, the novel they were studying. Isobelle’s responses to their questions helped them to develop an in-depth understanding of the novel. This is a great example of harnessing Web 2.0 to support reading and literature, and is relevant to connected learning and L4L.
The LITERACY Team, (2009) ‘Where can I find literacy support?’ in Scan 28(1) February, p. 40.
The Literacy team, Curriculum K–12 Directorate, outlines the teaching and learning support provided on the Literacy website.
LOVEDAY, Bronwen, (2009) ‘Meeting the challenge at Oatlands’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 26–27.
Teacher librarian, Bronwen, describes how the school integrated the Premier’s Reading Challenge into their curriculum. OASIS Web Enquiry enabled teachers and students to readily identify PRC books on the Challenge.
McLEAN, Ian, (2009) ‘Kindergarten weaves a wiki: the learners tell their stories’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 30–37.
Ian, teacher librarian at Penrith Public School, describes how he collected and interpreted research data from 12 Early Stage 1 (Kindergarten) students, tracking their emerging awareness of, and access to, the internet and Web 2.0 tools. An online wiki was used to create jointly constructed fables, and to share the final products (and the annotated learning journey) with the extended school community – and beyond.
MIGAN, Fiona, (2009) ‘Copyright and Creative Commons in schools’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 41–43.
Fiona, Senior Policy officer, Copyright, explains how teachers can create, adapt, share and use works by following the Creative commons guidelines. Check our links page under copyright and the updated section of the Handbook for school libraries.
NOAKE, Val, (2009) ‘Enhancing Special forever with ICT’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 46–47.
Val, Project Manager, e:lit, describes the wonderful learning opportunities available for students engaged in and reading about the Special forever project. Students across the Murray-Darling Basin share information, photographs, sound and video files. These resources, available at www.specialforever.org.au/, can be used by teachers and students outside the Basin.
The PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE (PRC) Team, (2009) ‘Premier’s Reading Challenge reception sails into Parramatta’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 24–25.
Rosie Charles, Dean Neeskens, Trish Anderson and Amanda Joyce report on the reception to celebrate the 2008 Challenge. Premier Nathan Rees hosted this exciting event at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta on Monday 1 December.
TODD, Ross, (2009) 'Research columns one, 2009: The changing information environment and student learning' in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 28–30.
Dr Ross Todd, Associate Professor, Director of CISSL at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, asks teacher librarians to focus on the exciting educational potential of the technology intensive environment so that thinking and creating become the predominant actions. Ross introduces Ian McLean’s annotated journey about the use of an online wiki with kindergarten students.
WALL, June, (2009) ‘Teaching power searching’ in Scan 28(1) February, pp. 12–16.
Teacher librarian and past President ASLA (NSW) Inc., June, has based this article on the seminar, Power searching, which she delivered for ASLA (NSW) Inc. The article includes teaching resources, such as The invisible web, and processes for searching from St Ignatius College.
Vol 28 No 2 May 2009
‘CBCA 2009 shortlisted finalists in the Children’s Book of the Year Awards’ (2009) in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 39–40.
The nominated books for the 2009 Children’s Book of the Year Awards were announced on the 31st March. Reviews are available at the Resource reviews database.
CHASE, Lizzie, (2009) ‘Beyond the review: Enigma: a magical mystery’ in Scan 26(2) May pp. 8–11.
Lizzie, Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy, describes how Enigma: a magical mystery by Graeme Base is an ideal resource for students to use their analytical tools to discover cultural allusions and different perspectives in the illustrations. Lizzie suggests activities for Middle Years students and programming ideas for research tasks.
DAVIS, Rob & RATTEY, Ann (2009) 'Just download! Andy Griffiths talks’ in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 8–11.
Rob, Senior Learning Design Officer, and Ann, Chief Learning Design Officer, from the Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI), enlighten readers about two online resources that are sure to engage students. Teachers can use the interview with Andy Griffiths and the webstreamed Learncast for an author study, to model interviewing techniques, or to engage students in narrative writing.
FOLEY, Colleen, (2009) ‘Currents: Laptops4Learning’ in Scan 28(2) May, p.3.
Colleen, Leader, School Libraries and Information Literacy, highlights the support available for the Laptops4Learning initiative and the new opportunities for collaborative partnerships to support students. Colleen also asks us to envisage how school libraries and teacher librarians will harness the available technologies and build on good practice as we move towards 2020. Read the article. See the discussion blog School libraries 21C.
HAY, Lyn & FOLEY, Colleen, (2009) ‘School libraries building capacity for student learning in 21C' in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 17–26.
Lyn, Lecturer in Teacher Librarianship in the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, and Colleen, Leader, School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit, provide an overview of the research and professional literature about ways in which student learning is enhanced through school libraries. The paper, School libraries building capacity for student learning in 21C supports teaching partnerships and suggests that a common vision is essential as we move into the future. It outlines how a capacity building approach can be used to achieve this goal, and suggests a model.
JONES, Ben, (2009) ‘Sharing Web 2.0 with TaLe’ in Scan 28(2) May, p. 34.
Ben, Professional Learning Coordinator TaLe, explains how the Share area of TaLe offers information, strategies and video tutorials to assist teachers to embrace the new technologies provided by the Connected Classrooms Program and Laptops4Learning (L4L).
MEAD, Fran (2009) ‘The school community working together for the students of Eastern Creek Public School’ in Scan 28(2) May, p. 41.
Teacher librarian, Fran, shares the school community’s excitement at the opening of the new school library.
The SCHOOL SYSTEMS Team, (2009) 'Customise reading lists in My library' in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 36–38.
This article provides information for teacher librarians to customise reading lists and add unmatched titles of Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) resources to My library.
SNEDDON, Linda, (2009) 'e-mates at Kempsey High School’ in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 4–7.
Teacher librarian, Linda, shares the success of the e-mates program to engage students in reading, literary reflections and conversations with students from other countries. This is a great example of using ICTs to support reading and is relevant to connected learning and L4L.
SOUTHWELL, Anne, (2009) ‘Resources to support HSIE teaching and learning in Symbol systems’ in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 32–33.
Anne, Senior Curriculum Adviser K–6, highlights the comprehensive range of relevant and practical resources, available on the HSIE website, which will help teachers in the implementation of the Cultures strand of HSIE.
TODD, Ross, (2009) 'Research columns two, 2009: School libraries and continuous improvement ' in Scan 28(2) May, p. 16.
Dr Ross Todd, Associate Professor, Director of CISSL at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, focuses on continuous improvement and capacity building for school libraries to sustain and nurture future student learning. Read the Research column. Ross introduces the article by Lyn Hay and Colleen Foley, School libraries building capacity for student learning in 21C.
TODD, Ross, (2009) 'School libraries and continuous improvement: a case study' in Scan 28(2) May, pp. 26–31.
Dr Ross Todd, Associate Professor, Director of CISSL at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, uses the example of the Delaware case study to illustrate the cycle of continuous improvement for school libraries. Substantive evidence provided the foundation for strategic planning and negotiating which led to the implementation of several key recommendations and professional action for improvement and capacity building. Read the complete article.
Vol 28 No 3 August 2009
CHASE, Lizzie (2009) ‘Beyond the review: Breaking dawn a book study’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 25–27.
This issue of Beyond the review contains a mixed ability Stage 5 English book study in response to Breaking dawn by Stephenie Myers. In addition, a Williams (1993) model contract focuses on the book, and Stephenie Myers’ website, to extend gifted Stage 5 English learners by developing stimulating questions to promote higher-order thinking. A programming ideas unit for teaching and learning literacy support is included.
CHESSMAN, Angela (2009) ‘Collaboration: a key ingredient to enhance teacher effectiveness’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 42–45.
Angela Chessman, Leader, Gifted and Talented Unit at Curriculum K–12 Directorate, explains the importance of curriculum differentiation to cater for the needs of all students, and outlines opportunities for teacher librarians and classroom teachers to collaborate in the curriculum planning and design to meet these needs.
COOPER, Jonathan & CHASE, Lizzie (2009) ‘Jonathan Cooper interview: a close encounter with the painting, Winding the skein’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 13–14.
Jonathan Cooper, Manager of Information at the Art Gallery of NSW, spoke to a group of HSC Students from Chifley College Bidwill Campus. Jonathan explored a number of art works for the students who were gathering related texts for the English Stage 6 Area of Study: Belonging. Lizzie Chase, Review Coordinator, was present and interviewed Jonathan later. The focus of the interview is how the painting, Winding the skein, can be used as a related text for the HSC English Area of Study: Belonging.
DAVIS, Rosemary (2009) ‘Powerful partnerships for quality learning: Digital Education Revolution – NSW’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 4–8.
Rosemary Davis, Assistant Director, Curriculum K–12 Directorate, provides an overview of the Digital Education Revolution – NSW (DER – NSW) program, and outlines some exciting opportunities for teacher librarians and school libraries supporting learning in the wireless laptop environment.
GORDON, Carol A. (2009) ‘Raising active voices in school libraries: authentic learning, information processing and Guided Inquiry’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 34–41.
Dr Carol Gordon, Co-Director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) at Rutgers University, examines how authentic learning and assessment work in school libraries, and refers to the supporting theory and practice.
GRAY, Martin (2009) ‘Have a laptop, will read: free e-books from links in the school library collection’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 30–31.
Martin Gray, part time teacher librarian and STLA, is preparing for a future with digital resources. Martin has prepared an alphabetical list of prescribed texts for HSC 2009–2012 which are available online. Download the list.
HEFFERNAN, John (2009) ‘Heads for tales’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 22–24.
Award winning Australian author, John Heffernan, presented a series of inspiring workshops at the School Libraries Leading Learning: Armidale 2009 Conference, which was jointly organised by our School Libraries and Information Unit and ASLA (NSW) Inc. John shares some of his strategies for stimulating and supporting students’ writing.
McKINDLAY, Belinda (2009) ‘Murder under the microscope inspires the Tooleybuc community’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 9–12.
Teacher librarian, Belinda McKindlay, relates the sustained commitment by the students, the staff and the community that culminated in success and recognition at state level. The Tooleybuc Trackers, from Tooleybuc Central School, won the Catchment Management Plan category for Stage 3.
MUDGE, Yvonne & STANDEN, Julie (2009) ‘A primary and high school partnership: meeting the Challenge together’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 28–29.
Teacher librarians, Yvonne Mudge and Julie Standen, share their collaboration with strategies to encourage reading and motivate students to finish the Premier’s Reading Challenge. A successful strategy involving the partnerships forged between local primary students and secondary students is a winning combination.
MURRAY, Michael (2009) ‘An English perspective on the Jonathon Cooper interview’ in Scan 28(3) August, p. 15.
Michael Murray, Chief Education Officer, English, Curriculum K–12 Directorate, discusses how visual texts can be used for HSC English students and advises teachers to check the Board of Studies NSW requirements for the specific context for studying these texts.
RAMSAY, Wendy (2009) ‘A Visual Arts perspective: engaging with artworks in the gallery context’ in Scan 28(3) August, p. 16.
Wendy Ramsay, Visual Arts Advisor, Curriculum K–12 Directorate, explains how Stage 6 Visual Arts students learn about practice in art making, art criticism and art history. Wendy offers suggestions for an investigation of the painting, Winding the skein, which is the focus of the Jonathan Cooper article in this issue, from the Visual Arts perspective.
RATTEY, Anne (2009) ‘More writers talking in 2009’ in Scan 28(3) August, p. 46.
The Centre for Learning Innovation launched its latest online digital writers talk resource at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May. Authors and illustrators contributing to Writers talk 2009 include Randa Abdel-Fattah, James Roy, Tristan Bancks, Morris Gleitzman, Isobelle Carmody, Garth Nix, Mal Peet, Tohby Riddle, Danny Katz, Mitch Vane and Mark MacLeod.
The School Systems team (2009) ‘OASIS Library Reports’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 48–50.
The School Systems team provides instructions for locating and using sample reports and for creating reports in OASIS Library.
SLY, Cathy (2009) ‘HSC Belonging and Matt Ottley’s Requiem for a beast’ in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 17–22.
Cathy Sly, a facilitator for the online HSC Belonging rap and blog, uses the wealth of information contained in the blog discussion to share this rich resource with students and teachers. Read the archived rap blog discussion which features Matt Ottley and Nadia Wheatley responding to students’ questions.
TODD, Ross (2009) 'Research columns three, 2009: What did you do in school today?' in Scan 28(3) August, pp. 32–33.
Dr Ross Todd is Associate Professor, Director of CISSL at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. In this issue, Ross focuses on the importance of designing authentic learning tasks and using formative, integrative, and ongoing assessment to inform best practice and engage students in meaningful student-teacher collaborations.
‘A tribute to Maureen Nicol’, (2009) in Scan 28(3) August, p. 47.
Teacher librarians reflect on the inspiring work and infectious enthusiasm of Maureen Nicol. Maureen, who provided over 33 years of outstanding service as an educator and teacher librarian, died on 28 May, 2009.
Vol 28 No 4 November 2009
BENJAMIN, Tom (2009) ‘Hollywood comes to us: using a laptop as a recording studio’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 40–41.
Dr Tom Benjamin describes how the applications available on each DER – NSW laptop include Audacity and the Adobe Creative Suite. He describes how this combination can make multimedia studio, particularly if a school acquires some basic animation software
BUCHANAN, Ruth (2009) ‘Re-imagine your library’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 20–22.
Ruth Buchanan, teacher librarian at Colo High School, inspires us to really look at our school libraries and imagine an inviting, stimulating, safe environment for providing effective teaching and learning. A reading retreat, wall words, furniture rearrangement and culling all contributed to an inviting learning environment.
The Centre for Learning Innovation (2009) ‘Getting ready for the Digital Education Revolution – NSW’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp.34–35.
The Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) has published a suite of resources to help support school leaders, teachers and students using DER – NSW laptops. This article explains how to use and locate these resources.
CHASE, Lizzie (2009) ‘Beyond the review: learning objects for IWBs’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 23–24.
Based on Strategies for reading success, by Marcelle Holliday, this article describes one example, Riddle of the black panther: the search. possible choices, Students are shown how to analyse news reports and interviews for bias and credibility of evidence. They learn how to use the SAFE scaffold as a checklist for asking questions to analyse any factual text. This is a pathway towards critical literacy which is approachable and memorable.
‘Children’s Book of the Year Awards 2009’ in Scan 28(4) November, p. 43.
The awards were announced by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) on the 21st August, 2009. Reviews are available at the Resource reviews database.
CILONA, Ric (2009) ‘e-assessment and effective feedback: some possibilities for teacher librarians’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 36–37.
Ric Cilona, Senior Assessment Adviser 7–12, explains the need to transform the essential structure and delivery of current assessment processes and consider the possibilities which the laptop program affords. He provides examples for using the software applications available on student laptops for effective feedback.
‘Creating digital stories: introducing Jump into storyboarding’ (2009) Scan 28(4) November, pp. 11–12.
Jump into storyboarding is an Early Stage 1/Stage 1 English resource which supports student writing, understandings about narrative and digital storytelling. It features the cartoon characters Pig and Bear in a series of stories without words. Students explore elements of narrative, and move to practising storyboarding. Finally, they launch into using PhotoStory3 to create their own digital stories.
The Gifted and Talented Unit (2009) ‘Information literacy support for gifted students’, in Scan 28(4) November, p. 42.
The Gifted and Talented Unit is preparing a website to support teachers in the newly created, partially selective high schools. The featured programming ideas unit for Stage 4 Mathematics is one example of how teacher librarians can support gifted students in partially selective high schools.
GORDON, Carol A. (2009) ‘Raising active voices in school libraries: authentic learning, information processing and Guided Inquiry. Part 2: The role of reflection’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 27–33.
Dr Carol Gordon’s paper continues the theme of authentic learning featured in the previous issue of Scan. In this issue, Carol examines authentic learning and assessment, provides examples of best practice and explains the importance of reflection for user-learners to transform information knowledge.
LARSON, Anne (2009) ‘Junior Judges Project at Gymea Technology High School’, in Scan 28(4) November, p. 44.
Teacher librarian, Anne Larson, shares the wonderful experience of students who joined the Junior Judge Project. Engaged in analysing, critical thinking, arguing, creating, composing, discussing and judging, these students worked as a team and shared their experiences. They have inspired others to participate in next year’s project.
The Literacy team (2009) ‘Literacy teaching guides’, in Scan 28(4) November, p. 39.
The Literacy team, Curriculum K–12 Directorate, provides a brief overview of the new literacy support materials. The guides can be downloaded from the Curriculum Support website at <www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/policies/literacy/material/guides/>.
McEWAN, Margaret (2009) ‘Re-visioning the library: a whole school process’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 4–7.
Margaret McEwan, teacher librarian at Figtree High School, describes the school community’s involvement in creating a new learning culture with the school library at the centre of enhancing and enriching student learning. Planning grids were used to categorise initiatives and keep track of progress. They are also useful tools for ongoing evaluation of services and continue to underpin planning for the future. Read the article.
MOLONEY, James (2009) ‘Questions for James Moloney’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 18–20.
James Moloney, award winning Australian author, responds to questions from the School Libraries and Information Literacy team about his novels, Angela, Dougy and Gracey, which have been republished this year. The Q&A focuses on each book’s representation of Indigenous people, different points of view, the synergy between the three books, and the techniques James uses to engage his young adult audience. These resources can be used to supplement the study of a prescribed text in the English Stage 6 Area of Study: Belonging.
NASH, Phil (2009) ‘Caddies Creek library: the learning hub of the school’, in Scan 28(4) November, p. 8.
Phil Nash, Principal at Caddies Creek Public School, outlines the collaborative leadership role of teacher librarian, Jenny Scheffers, that has enabled the library to become the learning hub of the school.
PARNIS, Rhonda (2009) ‘Creating digital stories. Part 1: Jump into storyboarding’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 12–14.
Rhonda Parnis, teacher librarian, at Sherwood Grange Public School, and K/1 classroom teacher, Nicole McTaggart, collaborated in trialling Jump into storyboarding for interactive whiteboards. Rhonda describes the steps in the learning process and the students’ enjoyment as they created their own stories.
RENDES, Viktoria (2009) ‘Creating digital stories. Part 2: Jump into storyboarding’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 15–17.
Viktoria Rendes, classroom teacher at Minchinbury Public School, describes the use of Jump into storyboarding learning sequence tool with Early Stage 1 students. Viktoria worked closely with teachers to integrate technology in quality teaching and learning activities focusing on creating digital stories. Working with small groups enables students to create simple storyboards, use digital cameras and edit in PhotoStory3.
SCHEFFERS, Jenny (2009) ‘Collaborative leadership – a primary perspective,’ in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 8–11.
Jenny Scheffers, teacher librarian at Caddies Creek Public School, outlines the various ways in which she has successfully demonstrated collaborative leadership within her school. This article is based on Jenny’s presentation at the School Libraries Leading Learning: Armidale 2009 conference, which was jointly organised by our School Libraries and Information Unit and ASLA (NSW) Inc., and held in June 2009. Read the article and the Library management plan.
TODD, Ross (2009) ‘Research columns four, 2009: Teacher librarians charting learning outcomes for a brave new world’, in Scan 28(4) November, pp. 25–26.
What is the future of the school library? Should it focus on its instructional role rather than its informational role? In this issue, Dr Ross Todd discusses the future of school libraries in the 21st century, and the importance of the teacher librarian’s instructional role to enable students to build deep knowledge and understanding.
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