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Diverse Roles and Challenges for Teacher Librarians: An Albanian Case Study
No full textCentral to creating lifelong learners, supporting curriculum, and implementing reliable information access, the library media centre is the umbrella for the school’s core subjects and the library media specialist is the connection between information and diffusion of that information to students. This paper examines school library media specialist roles in the United States and international schools, using the Quality Schools International (QSI) K-12 international school in Tirana, Albania, as a case study. Particular emphasis is placed on technology challenges, education requirements, and the impact of these elements on students, in particular the third culture students found in many international schools
Collaborating across new media and gender : Co-writing f2m: the boy within social media online & the case (study) of a controversial YA novel
No full textGender transitioning, with a punk music setting was always going to be controversial. Especially in this internationally ‘first’ YA novel with a trans co-author Ryan who had transitioned from female to male (ftm). However we did not expect the speed of social media which made ‘f2m: the boy within’ a fascinating case study in online collaboration techniques. These included Skype plotting, webchats, guest blogs, book trailer and Twitter, by the co-writers in different countries, and the YA readers and reviewers. Authors are not solo creators. Professionally, they may work at home, but are linked internationally, by new social media
Promoting a reading culture in school community: how to engage reading activities cross curricula, directors, teachers, students, parents, administrative services, local authorities, public libraries and other partners – Relating a project: How to engage reading activities cross curricula, directors, teachers, students, parents, administrative services, local authorities, public libraries and other partners – Relating a project
No full textThe main purpose of this paper is to present how an intensive collaboration between the National Portuguese Reading Plan and the School Libraries Network Programme plays an important role in the promotion of reading literacy as a baseline to develop all kinds of other literacy abilities and empower the role of school libraries and the collaborative work between the school community and the school library, by reporting on one of the most significant projects, which shows the relevance of this partnership. School libraries are a privileged structure in the school for skill development, not only in accessing information, available locally or remotely, enabling students with critical thinking, transforming information to knowledge, supporting curricula, but also in readers training and the promotion of reading habits, which is a basic tool for lifelong learning
The school library and e-learning platforms
No full textThe teacher-librarian should be the most effective weapon for collaborative teaching and learning within a school. Teacher-librarians do struggle to find time to effectively plan for the cooperative teaching and learning activities. Often school libraries run their own website as they struggle to offer a digital 24/7 library service for its users. The school library website makes it easier for the teacher-librarian to manage the information delivery but isolates the content. The teacher-librarian managed website is often not an effective tool for cooperative planning and teaching. This paper will look at how the teacher-librarian can use e-learning platforms to deliver a digital 24/7 library service, and in addition, offer a great collaborative space for effective cooperative planning and teaching. This paper will focus on examples of practice in two schools. The first school is a New South Wales government high school and uses Moodle as the e-learning platform. The second school is an international K-12 private school and uses StudyWiz as the e-learning platform
Building Internationally Literate Communities
No full textHow can we as librarians bring children and books from a variety of cultures and backgrounds together to create a more internationally literate community? This workshop addresses that question with a discussion of what it means to be internationally literate as well as internationally-minded, followed by an outline of some evaluation criteria useful in selecting international children\u27s literature. Examples will be offered of what a school library network can do to promote wider reading of literature from around the world. All supporting materials, including booklists, for this workshop can be found online (after 30/09/10) at Kids Global Read website
A study of secondary students’ decision-making processes with respect to information use, particularly students’ judgements of relevance and reliability
No full textThis report details an ongoing investigation of the decision-making processes of a group of secondary school students in south-eastern Australia undertaking information search tasks. The study is situated in the field of information seeking and use, and, more broadly, in decision making. Research questions focus on students’ decisions about the relevance and reliability of information. Data collected include video screen captures, think-aloud reports, and interviews. Qualitative data analysis developed a preliminary grounded theory to describe decision-making processes. Students depended on system-provided relevance cues, rejected particular resource categories, examined remaining items for general and specific relevance, and primarily used a process of corroboration to assess reliability. Selected implications for educators are raised
Are we there yet? : Students have their say about Library and Information Science education in Australia and twenty-first century learning
No full textLibrary and Information Science (LIS) education faces considerable opportunities and challenges in the 21st Century. Institutions must produce a range of information professionals, including teacher librarians. These future professionals must be able to respond flexibly to rapidly evolving social, economic and technological change. Multimedia elearning environments and the interactive nature afforded by Web 2.0 technologies mean that LIS programs can be delivered globally and collaboratively to an international audience. Attracting students who will take LIS and the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving information landscape into the twenty-first century, is an integral part of building strong and sustainable educational programs
Introducing and establishing a wide reading program in the middle years of schooling
No full textThis professional practice paper outlines some of the purposes of a Wide Reading Program and discusses ways in which this has been introduced to English classes in the middle years of schooling. Some of the challenges encountered in the introduction and establishment of this program are also discussed. These can include the reluctance of some readers to engage with the program and how teacher’s administrative duties can prevent their full involvement in Library reading sessions. The evolution of formats used for the collection and presentation of evidence based data is also outlined
Academic achievement and/or educational attainment – The role of teacher librarians in students’ future: Main findings of a research in Portugal
No full textThis paper aims at analysing 20 teacher librarians definitions’ of academic achievement and educational attainment targeting their students’ preparation for the future. Reflection is also done on how these teacher librarians see their roles and specific qualifications in relation with those concepts. This research work, belonging to a PhD program, is focused on School Libraries of Portuguese public elementary integrated schools, which were in the school libraries network till 2005. This research used a qualitative methodology both for data gathering and analysis techniques
A touch of humour! : Captivating students through the GiggleIT Project
No full textCome and learn about GiggleIT! See how we have successfully implemented the GiggleIT Project, an initiative of IASL, with Year 5 and 6 students as part of our library program at William Clarke College in Australia. Involvement in this new, exciting, online project based on humour has given the students a reason to read, research, discover, discuss, write, reflect, communicate with others and publish their work. The successful collaboration between Teacher Librarians and teachers through this project has provided aplatform from which to promote the library across the school community and beyond. Working closely with class teachers provides opportunities to assess, evaluate and modify the program as necessary. The extensive use of technology and the strong international focus is appealing to all students. They can‟t wait to get to library lessons