What digital natives want from their library

Out of the mouth of a baby! This is a lovely video to open a conference. This video of 3 year old Abbey was used launch the 15th Biennial VALA Conference and Exhibition in Melbourne Australia. http://www.vala.org.au #VALA2010 From VALATV: “This is actually Abbey’s voice, she sat in front of the camera and said these things. [...]

Navify – Searching Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube

My colleague Tania found this tool via the Free technology for teachers blog. I had seen Nibipedia, but Navify was a new tool for me to look at. It is a mash-up of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. We all know that many of our students use Wikipedia,which may be developing into the world’s most extensive encyclopedias, as people continue to build on [...]

Students review Ipod Touch and IPhone devices

Joy’s Flatclassroom 2008 project video is a  great video that interviews students who use itouch and the iphone devices. Asks what they think about them and the things they can do with these tools. If your students have itouches and iphones at school they are probably doing things you may not want. Should schools ban [...]

The library fiction collection – taking stock

I have arrived home most nights this week feeling very grimy/dusty. I look forward to a shower. I still have a cough that is worse at the end of the day. The reason for this is that I have been trying to do a combined stocktake of our fiction collection and at the same time [...]

Book Trailers – rubric

The Sorcerer of the North Trailer. Released for US market a few weeks ago.  I am working on my presentation about using book trailers with students as an alternative way to respond to their reading. I am also creating a wiki about all things to do with reading. This will be my second wiki and I [...]