Shaun Tan’s Oscar nomination

Meant to post about this when I read it in Thursday’s Age newspaper. My favourite author/illustrator Shaun Tan has another accolade. This time he has an Oscar nomination.  The nomination is for his short animation for The Lost Thing. I wrote a post back in May last year about the short film. If you haven’t already , have a look  the film’s site. The Australian Newspaper also had a brief comment from Shaun about his nomination

If you are interested in more of the Oscar nominations the SBS site offers a complete list of nominations.

I also collected some other videos in Vodpod with that offers a snippet with Shaun Tan on The Lost Thing film which was narrated by Tim Minchin.

Reading a book

A good video to have on the screen in the library and the year 7 common space. A great way to catch the boys attention  at the start of this school year.

Useful sites (weekly)

  by  mikefisher821 

• Formatting ebooks – EPUB Straight to the Point A good guide to creating EPUB files ceated by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors 

• The Glamis Hub Strathmore Secondary College library have recently set up their own library blog. “They wanted a platform whereby they could recommend books through genres and also give students the opportunity to share their reading experiences by interacting with one another and discuss books they loved, hated or were just plain disappointed in. They also hope to interest Year 7 and 8 English teachers to engage their students through this blog and encourage a love of reading.

• Slightly addicted to fiction Judi Jagger, 2011 WA Children’s Book Council judge, has developed her own blog. It is a great read for anyone interested in children’s and YA literature.

• SpineOut SpineOut is a Australian online magazine for young adults produced by the team responsible for the Good Reading magazine.

• Listen2Learners – Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Listen2Learners was held on Monday 11 October, 2010 at Experimedia, State Library of Victoria. The Department partnered with 13 school teams from Victoria and interstate to provide an opportunity for decision makers in government, business, industry and the social arena to meet and learn from digital learners. Listen2Learners provided participants with the chance to meet digital learners, find out who they are, and see how they really learn, communicate and collaborate. What young people think and have to say is helping to shape decisions and inform policies

• Lend Me Your E-books (Part 2) | Publishing Perspectives Erik Christopher considers the model offered by Overdrive and the future of lending as seen by the Open Book Alliance’s Peter Brantley.

• Lend Me Your E-book (Part 1) | Publishing Perspectives A peice about e-book models offered to librarians by the United States’ two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

• Children’s|Video | Book Videos, Interviews & Podcasts from B&N Studio 

• Young Sherlock Holmes – Death Cloud and Red Leech books by Andrew Lane 

• 5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2011 — THE Journal 

• Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.