Useful Links (Weekly)

  by  CanadianAEh   The quote seems to be timely at this part of our school year A Guide to Ebook Purchasing | American Libraries Magazine An interesting article by Sue Polanka in the magazine of the American Library Association    Education Eye – Mapping Innovations EducationEye allows the user to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of [...]

Top 100 tools for learning 2011

 Another year has flown by and again  Jane Hart has published the top 100 list of tools for learning. Jane Hart has, since 2007, been building an annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide.  She has asked learning professionals worldwide (e.g. teacher, academic, trainer, consultant, developer, practitioner, analyst, etc) and active in [...]

Useful Links (Weekly)

by heyjudegallery Do students understand their ‘digital footprint’ and how it can affect their employability? – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time    A good presentation that is given to tertiary students that end with… ” let us be sensible when we use any online service (Facebook, Twitter, eBay, LinkedIn, etc), think about how we want to [...]

Alison Lester : One Small Island

At a recent SLAV conference I was fortunate to hear Alison Lester speak about her latest book One Small Island (Penguin). Alison engaged in a conversation with Laura Harris of Penguin Books to help us understand the inspiration behind her career as an illustrator and author.  It followed very neatly from a presentation by Sue McKerracher who spoke about the National [...]

2011 Edublog Awards

It is that time of the year again! The Edublogs Awards site is open to allow you to  nominate your 2011 favourites. Over the past few years I have had put in my nominations so that some of the great work that on-line colleagues are doing can be recognised. It is always a had job trying to pick out one from [...]