Session abstracts

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Listed alphabetically by author

Dr Jennie Bales, Lilydale District School, Tasmania
It’s all about… ‘Learning in a Changing World’
An introduction to the series, ‘Learning in a Changing World’ will present an overview of each of the five books in the series. The potential of the books to inform, guide and educate education professionals will be considered in regard to meeting the needs of 21st Century learners.

Chris Betcher, PLC Sydney
The Googlification of everything
Google provides an enormous range of tools for educators. In this session we will look at many of Google's most useful tools for finding, managing, organising and manipulating information. This will be a hands-on workshop where participants will also engage in discussion of the pedagogy behind the tools.

Ms Kellie Britnell, Australian Communications and Media Authority
Being Cybersmart as you innovate, instruct and integrate
Technology has become essential for teaching and learning in the 21st century. With these advances comes a greater role for schools to ensure that they are used in a safe and positive way. This session will highlight some of the key cyber issues that are causing concern for Australian schools and will provide information on free resources including online resources, lesson plans and professional development opportunities.

Ms Ruth Buchanan, Colo High School, NSW
Re-imagining your school library
Looking for fresh, practical, easy ideas to transform your library? While time and money may be limited, imagination is not. Starting tomorrow, how can you develop your 21st century school library as a quality learning space, a welcoming sanctuary, a positive and encouraging resource centre supporting your students and staff?

Ms Lizzie Chase, NSW DET
Read, reflect, respond, re-imagine: digital tools integrated within a powerful learning cycle for middle years English and research lessons
Read, reflect, respond and re-imagine: This learning cycle has integrated digital tools into middle years English lessons in response to 12 fiction and non-fiction books. Participants will learn about the Other worlds project and the free resources at http://otherworlds.yolasite.com, seeing lessons to support research skills, visual literacy and multimedia authoring.

Mr John Clear, AIS NSW
Cybersafety
Many would have us believe that cyberspace is riddled with hidden dangers. Others believe it to be a wonderful tool that enables unprecedented levels of collaboration, communication and information. Which camp you're in is largely irrelevant; what we know is that students today invest a great deal of time and resources ensuring they
are connected and use phones, computers and other devices to ensure they remain so. As teachers, we need to be properly informed before we can deal with wellbeing issues related to our student's technology use. This workshop will provide cyber awareness resources and links that you can take away and present to teachers and students.

Ms Deborah Cohen, Australian Children's Television Foundation
Persuasive text : using media texts to support persuasive language and writing in the classroom
This seminar provides beaut ideas to support teachers addressing persuasive texts in the classroom. The ACTF has a variety of media productions that are exemplary of different contexts of persuasion. The seminar will draw on these examples to develop different ideas for addressing verbal and non-verbal persuasive devices.

Ms Deborah Cohen, Australian Children's Television Foundation
My Place: a multimodal destination that brings to life Australian history
My Place (2008-1778): a multimodal destination that brings to life Australian history through the ‘eyes’ of children. It is a resource that traces the diversity of Australia and the many cultures that have enriched an Australian way of life.

Ms Rosemary Collins & Ms Leonie McIlveny, Boragoon Primary School, WA
Studyvibe: harnessing the power of the online environment to teach students how to study effectively
Studyvibe is a unique online community that attempts to engage secondary students in learning how to study effectively. Using a range of web 2.0 tools and social networking principles, Studyvibe is delivering essential skills and knowledge to students that is often absent from a school’s curriculum.

Ms Kristine Cooke, Ms Cathy Oxley, Ms Helen Stower, Ms Anne Weaver Brisbane Girls' Grammar School; Brisbane Grammar School; St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace; All Hallows' School, QLD
Collaborative writing
Digital media can encourage social interaction and promote learning outcomes. Teacher-librarians at four Brisbane schools – two boys' and two girls' schools - initiated a collaborative project to foster creative writing in Year 8 students. This project explored the notion of shared writing, challenging students to produce a joint story.

Mr Roy Crotty, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University
Building collaborative communities online : A CSU learning initiative
Collaborative teaching and learning practices between schools is at a beginning stage. Often these practices involve the use of technology which is new to many teachers. This session introduces a change management process which addresses the level of concern each participant may be encountering and points to understanding how a managed approach can lead to successful communication and collaboration.

Mrs Camilla Elliott, Mazenod College, Vic
Library team 2.0: innovations, enablers, inhibitors
Library team 2.0 has a wealth of innovative tools available. Developing new skillsets to utilise them, remain relevant and dynamic is not without effort. This presentation explores the landscape; innovations; enablers; inhibitors and whole school relationships that facilitate positive learning outcomes and exciting futures. It’s a Library Team 2.0 approach.

Mrs. Lee FitzGerald, Loreto Kirribilli, NSW
Guided Inquiry: does it work?
Guided Inquiry is one of the keys to establishing the elusive collaboration that teacher librarians have been seeking for many years now. This presentation will essentially be an analysis of the learnings of a team of teachers and teacher librarians about Guided Inquiry as two inquiry units are planned, carried out and evaluated during 2011, with the aim of identifying what works and what doesn’t, and the organising principles behind Guided Inquiry, from the practitioners’ perspectives.

Mrs Carmel Galvin, Trinity Grammar School, NSW
Using Facebook and LibGuides to provide 24/7 library access
Integrate, promote and build your library's online presence through the use of two powerful tools, Facebook and LibGuides. Review one school's journey and learn the best way to approach the task. Leave this session with an action plan that will make your library's online presence, up-to-date, relevant and user friendly.

Ms Maggie Garrard, Australian Children's Television Foundation
Digital authoring: the way forward for learning and learners.
In this workshop participants will explore how easy it is to engage students in creating their own digital worlds, characters and films.

Ms Maggie Garrard, Australian Children's Television Foundation
The Animal within: exploring the use of digital media resources in the classroom
The Animalia Teaching Resource developed by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation uses digital media from the TV animation series, to support primary teachers in exploring concepts and issues of Civic & Citizenship, Values and Identity. The TV series is based on the picture book, Animalia by Graeme Base.

Mrs Ann Gillespie & Dr Hilary Hughes, QUT
Profiling teacher librarians as evidence based practitioners
This research investigates the nature of evidence based practice as it applies to teacher librarians in Australia. This qualitative study draws on the experiences of practicing teacher librarians presented here as profiles of teacher librarians as evidence based practitioners. This research contributes to new understandings about EBP for teacher librarians.

Ms Jackie C Hawkes
The ABCs of L=PAALs : Learning = People + Attitudes + Atmosphere+ Libraries
School libraries are in the people and learning business. Jackie’s library “learning zoo” has always succeeded in creating a supportive and energizing place where learning is shared, valued, promoted and expected for each individual learner. This session summarizes an ABCs approach of some of the practical methods she has used in her library to connect People, Attitudes and Atmosphere to promote effective Learners.

Mr. Dominic Hearne, Waverley College, NSW
Why on earth would I Twitter?
An exploration of how Twitter can be used as a news aggregation tool rather than as a social networking tool.

Mrs Bianca Hewes, Davidson High School, NSW
Building your Professional Learning Network (PLN)
Want to build a Professional Learning Network to connect with the best people around the world relevant to your interests but don’t know how? This hands-on workshop shows you how to create your own powerful PLN from choosing an avatar to writing your bio blurb.

Steven Herrick http://www.stevenherrick.com.au/

Jessica Jorna, Nadia Merchant and Trent McAllan, Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW
Developing digital literacy in your school
This seminar will explore the process that a Digital Learning Team went through in creating a framework that would support the integration of pedagogically sound digital learning incorporating information, critical and ICT literacies.

Mrs Joy Lawn
Frame by frame: understanding the appeal of the graphic novel
What are graphic novels? Are they comic books? Sophisticated picture books? Books containing comic strips/panels? Illustrated novels? Or something else? Why is there a growing interest in them? What is their appeal? Why should they be valued in schools? Which graphic novels should be used and promoted, and how?

Mrs Joy Lawn
How are secrets, lies and truths embedded in children's literature?
The best of new, prior-to-publication and recent innovative children's and young adult literature will be presented. These texts provide a cutting-edge platform of quality literature for meaningful analysis. Texts are selected from the genres of realism and genre-fiction. This workshop will inspire and support those who instruct students in children's literature.

Mr Jeremy LeBard, ReadCloud
Reading socially with ReadCloud
This session will be a hands-on workshop with the ReadCloud software. ReadCloud has created the world's first social eReading software designed for schools. ReadCloud enhances the eBook as a place for discussion, collaboration, social learning and exploration through embedded learning tools, resulting in an entirely new way of learning.

Mr Jeremy LeBard, ReadCloud
Social eReading and the future of digital text in the classroom
ReadCloud has created the world's first social eReading software designed for schools where educators and students can share multimodal annotations within eBooks. This innovation turns the eBook into a place for discussion, collaboration, social learning and exploration through embedded learning tools, resulting in an entirely new way of learning.

Mrs Sharon McGuinness, Thirroul Public School, NSW
Innovative web2 tools for instruction and integration
Voki, storybird and photopeach are three web2 tools guaranteed to engage your students in their learning. In this workshop, participants will integrate the tools into an instructional unit of work for students. These tools can be used with both primary and secondary students.

Ms Leonie McIlvenny, Curtin University
Making metacognition mainstream
To be aware of how you learn is an essential cognitive skill that is largely missing from most schools’ curriculum. Aquinas College, through its Learning to Learn Program, has taken up the challenge of making metacognition, and self-directed learning an essential part of the Middle School curriculum.

Mrs Sue McKerracher, The Library Agency
National Year of Reading 2012
How are you going to use the National Year of Reading to put your school library centre stage in 2012? Tap into the great programs, fun events, media coverage and celebrity supporters, and let’s use this opportunity to help students discover and rediscover the joy of reading.

Mr Ian McLean, Penrith Public School, NSW
Renovating your school library - on a shoestring budget
In late 2008, teacher librarian Ian McLean began to transform an old portable library into a fresher, more efficient, inviting and innovating workspace and eventually a new BER library. The conference seminar will be supported by a PowerPoint show, documenting sources of decor items, itemised costings, and how other schools have adapted these ideas for their own library spaces. References will be made back to the original work of Kevin Hennah (with permission), who has followed the progress of these particular makeovers and has presented updates of Penrith PS’s successes in his own presentations.

Mrs Henrietta Miller and Mrs Prudence Thomas, Roseville College, NSW
Communicating for the 21st century: using tools such as edmodo and student blogs to connect students with an authentic world wide audience
By using Edmodo, a secure forum together with personal student blogs, our students are?connecting and collaborating and so gaining a real world perspective together with an authentic audience for their work.

Ms Pru Mitchell, Schools Catalogue Information Service, Education Services Australia
Resourcing a 21st century curriculum
This workshop considers the implementation of the Australian Curriculum in the context of school libraries. It considers what priorities face teacher librarians and school leadership teams in ensuring the school library successfully supports learners and teachers in selecting, organising and facilitating access to curriculum resources at the school level.

Ms Lisa Nash, Learning Exchange, Catholic Education, Diocese of Parramatta, NSW
Exploring iPads in learning and teaching
Students today consume, create and make sense of content via a range of mobile digital technologies. This workshop will discuss feedback from a classroom trial of iPads as well as exploring the innovative features the iPad and various Apps can play in enhancing and engaging students in learning.

Richard Newsome http://www.richardnewsome.com

Mrs Alexia Nicholson, Electroboard
SMART Notebook software for teacher librarians
This session will focus on how SMART Notebook software can be used to enhance the professional practice of teacher librarians. During the session the participants will be shown how to access the gallery resources, within the software, that are applicable to their subject area. The participants will also be provided with an overview of the software toolbar features and how they can easily be used to enhance their everyday teaching. Additionally the features of the SMART Document camera that lend themselves so well to the library setting will be demonstrated during this presentation.

Judy O'Connell, Charles Sturt University
Find it fast and get things done
It’s not a one-size-fits-all environment anymore. Personalise your knowledge and information search strategy with the latest search tools and techniques for news and knowledge discovery. Find out about 21C information curation and improve your information research techniques. Become an Information 2.0 mover and shaker!

Mrs Cathy Oxley, Brisbane Grammar School, QLD
Anytime, anywhere, any device: mobile technologies in libraries
Mobile technology is increasingly becoming the preferred method of internet access by teenage users, and what better way for libraries to be perceived as useful and relevant than to provide instant, online, 24/7 access to reliable information using this technology? Hear how universities, schools and public libraries are marketing their services using mobile phones and devices.

Mrs Margo Pickworth, Shore Preparatory School, NSW
Just Google it!
This seminar paper will report on both Australian and international research studies that have examined young student's abilities to evaluate internet sources. With ease of access and an overwhelming amount of digital information available it is vital that students develop effective evaluation skills and become discerning users of information. But what is the best way forward? What cognitive skills do young students need to effectively evaluate web resources? What does the profile of a competent internet user look like? How can Teacher Librarians play a role in assisting students to develop these skills? These questions will be considered in the light of some current research findings as well as some practical strategies that have been implemented with primary aged students.

Kerry Pope, William Clarke College, Kellyville, NSW
A Touch of Humour! Captivating students through the GiggleIT Project
Come 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. 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. 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!

Mrs Kerrie Smith, SA
Productivity through e-books and e-readers
2011 has been the year of the e-books with many schools and universities considering the pros and cons of implementing their use as textbooks and in libraries. If you are feeling that it is all still a bit of a puzzle, then this in-depth session will help.

Greg Swanson, Marist College, Eastwood, NSW
Collaborative learning project: E-textbook
What do you do when a group of tech savvy students say a unit of work looks less than inviting. Couple this with a desire from the students to incorporate laptops into the learning dynamic. What develops is an innovative collaborative learning project that engages the students with their own learning; uses new and emerging technologies to motivate both staff and students; and culminates in an e-textbook that is both challenging and visually exciting.

Mrs Stacey Taylor, Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, NSW
Tools to support senior research
A hands-on workshop designed to explore the myriad of tools available to share with senior students to use on their research journey during their final years of school. We'll look at online tools like Zotero and Evidence Chart which help students organise their thoughts and their resources.

Ms Nerelie Teese, Rosstrevor Middle School, Brighton Grammar School, VIC
Introducing and establishing a wide reading program in the middle years of schooling
This presentation outlines a Wide Reading Program and details its introduction to English classes in the middle years of schooling. Some challenges encountered in the introduction and establishment of this program are also discussed. The evolution of formats for collection and presentation of evidence based data are also outlined

Ms Marita Thomson, The King's School, NSW
Reader development in secondary school
There is a large body of research and best practice literature on readers’ advisory or reader development, but it is largely public library based and aimed at adult readers. This session will demonstrate how this knowledge can be adapted and used in schools with teens.

Ms Sally Turbitt, Student - School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga
Social media - ideas from a librarian-in-training
How can you use social media to learn, communicate and create personal learning networks?  How do you begin to access the giant internet brain, join the conversation, capture the information, share it and use it in the learning environment?  Where do you start?

June Wall, Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview, NSW
Designing engaging learning for digital delivery
This seminar will present a process that embeds best teaching and learning practice with the best of digital tools for the best learning for students. It draws on the “Learning in a Changing World” series published by ACER in 2010.

Mrs Margie Wallin & Jann Small, Southern Cross University
What your teacher librarian can do for you!
Student teachers often lack opportunity and/or encouragement to visit school libraries while on placement. Local teacher librarians and principals have collaborated with Southern Cross University Library to produce a series of videoclips, showcasing what school libraries and teacher librarians can offer. The clips are now available on YouTube & TeacherTube.

Judith Way, Kew High School, Victoria
Developing a Personal Learning Network for fast and free professional learning
The world of social media now provides so many professional learning opportunities for library and teaching staff. This workshop will explain what a professional learning network is, why you should have one, how you can set yours up and how you can make it work for you! Hands on time gives you support to start your PLN today.

Mrs Anne Whisken, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Victoria
Informed learning and action research in a blended learning environment
Teacher Librarian and PhD student Anne Whisken conducted an action research project with 25 secondary teachers. They investigated the informed learning model (Bruce 2008) for teaching 21st century information use in a blended learning environment. How could teachers incorporate this into their practice? Is action research useful professional development?

Mrs Isobel Williams, Ogilvie High School, Tasmania
Are eBooks for you?
Are we ready for eBooks? This presentation will discuss the results of a trial of eBooks and eBook readers conducted at Ogilvie High School, Hobart. What did the students think? What did the teachers think? What did the library staff think? Is this technology ready for use in school libraries?

For further information please contact:
ASLA XXII Conference Secretariat
PO Box 155
Zillmere QLD 4034
Ph: 07 3633 0510
Fax: 07 3633 0570
Email: Karen Bonanno, Conference Secretariat

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Last updated 27 September 2011