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Overdrive – downloadable ebooks and audiobooks: now a part of our Networked School Community
I wrote this in March 2010. We have three Kindles, and will begin lending them out for a week at a time next term. We’ve decided to not invest in more of them and are awaiting the release of the … Continue reading
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New additions to our library – including iPads as OPACS
We recently made some purchases for our new library that have helped to make the space feel more like our original plan for a comfortable, welcoming centre that meets the needs of our student population. I thought I’d share a … Continue reading
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Why we’re paying for Ning
It’s Inquiry Week for our Year 8 students, and we are using a Ning to support the students to communicate and archive evidence of their research. We collapse curriculum for a week, and allow our students to investigate in groups … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
Does this remind you of anyone? You, maybe? Those of us who tweet regularly, update our status on facebook, those of us who blog? Once again, improveverywhere have made me smile, and plenty of others in that audience too by … Continue reading
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Creating a Library for the future – Part two!
Recently, I wrote about our new library and how we had tried to create a library for Toorak College that would meet the future needs of our school. There are lots of photos in that post, but most were taken … Continue reading
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CPL workshop – all systems go!
A couple of years ago, I would speak at staff meetings and I could see eyes raising and people looking at one another with that, ‘here she goes again’, body language happening. Experiences like that have made me wary of … Continue reading
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Toorak Continuous Professional Learning Seminar
I work at Toorak College, an all girls’ school in Mt.Eliza. One of the initiatives being driven here at the moment is the growth of a professional learning network for both the teachers within our school, and those further afield. … Continue reading
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Creating a Library for the future
Well, that’s what we hope we’ve done. Created a Library for the future, that is. When we started planning Toorak College’s new Norman Carson Library, we knew this would be a space that had to meet the needs of a … Continue reading
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Learning happens
I’ve spent the last eight school days participating in a ‘camp’ program at my school called Creative Communication. I’ve had the pleasure of working with 21 very special girls who have all made an effort to extend their thinking and … Continue reading
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Liana’s second guest post – The Sustainable Table
Liana Gooch teaches at Toorak College with me and is one of the hardest working people I know. She was part of our PLP group and has really tried to embrace new technologies into her teaching practice. She holds the … Continue reading
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