Nov
22
Book Trailers – A Web 2.0 Journey
November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
(An article written by Anne Weaver, published recently in Access) Web 2 technologies offer great opportunities for teacher librarians to promote learning outcomes. Book trailers were introduced as a competition category in the QIEU, Courier Mail, ETAQ Book Review Competition in QLD in 2009. Armed with this incentive and also a PD session promoted by [...]
Nov
4
Nov 09 Out with Books – In with Kindles?
November 4, 2009 | 8 Comments
Photo attributed to adored Today I held a new kindle and wondered if this device will replace the thousands of books in our Libraries? This is happening in some schools already. In Cushing Academy in Massachusetts, they are removing 20,000 books; half their library collection, and replacing them with an entirely digital infrastructure. They have [...]
