Services to Schools - Libraries and Learning

Caine's Arcade

lisa — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:20 +0000

Teaser:

The Imagination Foundation is a non-profit organisation with a mission to “find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers, who have the tools they need to build the world they imagine!”

by Carrie

cc image by hakee

A Creative Kid Inspires the World!

Have you visited Caine’s Arcade?

Tula'i Mai

lisa — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:12 +0000

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Making a difference to Pasifika student literacy achievement.

“Tula’i Mai” is a call to young Pasifika people of the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tahiti, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu living in Aotearoa New Zealand, to rise to the challenge of educational success

By Glynis

image used with permission of Learning Media

New Board members for your school?

lisa — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:00:44 +0000

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Boards of Trustees elections are coming up at the end of May for all our New Zealand schools.

By Glynis

Boards of Trustees elections are coming up at the end of May for all our New Zealand schools.

Have you thought about what key messages you would like to give new board members about your school library?

A good place to start thinking about this is to consider the roles and responsibilities of your BOT and shape your messages to complement your Board’s directions. As with all advocacy, it is most effective when you align your message to the audience’s goals.

Storybird: Inspiring students to tell stories

lisa — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:22:26 +0000

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Storybird is a fantastic site that gives your students the chance to “create, read, and share visual stories.

By Carrie

Storybird is a fantastic site that gives your students the chance to “create, read, and share visual stories.” Students start with Storybird’s impressive library of beautiful artwork and use the images as inspiration. They can view and comment on classmates’ stories and share their finished products in a variety of ways.

Passion is power – school librarians matter

lisa — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:00:37 +0000

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By Peter M

School librarians shape lives. As cradles of curiosity and imagination, school libraries are a community taonga where our children are inspired to dream, to question, to reflect and to aspire to live extraordinary and unique lives.

By Peter Murgatroyd

Digital Dictionaries

lisa — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:00:10 +0000

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Today’s dictionaries are ubiquitous and available 24/7

By Debbie

CC image by Texast

In the past, many homes would have contained a large print dictionary whose purpose was to assist with homework and settle the inevitable arguments that accompanied family games of Scrabble. Not so any longer!

Stories on Wheels

lisa — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:00:28 +0000

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Lunchtime book trolley

By Gail C

cc image by joe Shlabotnik

Our local café is a bustling place at lunchtimes with shoppers having coffee, a bite to eat and lingering on to read the latest magazines or the daily newspaper – leisure reading on the trot.

All news is local news

lisa — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:00:05 +0000

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A great addition to your online reference collection

By Lisa A

Developed by Marcus Asplund and Carl Wedefelt of Gothenburg, Sweden, Newspaper Map is an online mash-up using Google maps and displaying the locations of over 10,000 online newspapers from around the world. It was voted one of the best free reference websites in 2012 by the American Library Association.

Search Institute

lisa — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:00:49 +0000

Teaser:

Libraries support and empower adolescent development

by Jeannie

Search Institute is a nonprofit organisation with a mission to: “provide catalytic leadership, breakthrough knowledge, and innovative resources to advance the health of children, youth, families and communities”

Digital Discovery Day -telling the story

lisa — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:00:26 +0000

Teaser:

Our Storify provides a record of the day for participants, and those who weren’t able to attend. It is a way to push out links to the resources which were explored on the day and also records some useful feedback and reflection.

By Wendy Macaskill

Recently 50 educators from 25 schools enjoyed a valuable day of learning at the Digital Discovery Day at Te Ahumairangi, the ground floor of the National Library’s Wellington building.

We have put together the story of the day using Storify by aggregating the tweets from the event .