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Moving beyond - decisions and surprises?: School libraries, learning and teaching
This conference aims to bring together teacher-librarians, school library personnel and other people interested in school libraries, to provide opportunities to confront, discuss and critically analyse the challenges and issues for those working in the field.
Monday 25 September -- Presenters, topics and abstracts
Any session title followed by an asterisk * will be of interest to library assistants.
The only sessions listed are those for which you are required to make a choice. You will be automatically listed for keynote sessions.
M2 - 11.50 am to 12.50 pm | M3 - 1.50 pm to 3.20 pm | M4 - 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm | M5 - 6.30 pm for 7.00 pm
M1 - 11.15 am to 11.45 am -- Setting the scene* (Refer to the session selection form to make your choice).
M2a -- Dr Karen Brooks -- Minor keynote
Senior Lecturer Australian and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast Qld.
Karen was an actor and an army officer in the Royal Australian Army Survey Corp before becoming an academic and, subsequently, an author. She joined USC in its inaugural year, 1996, and developed courses in popular culture and, eventually, the successful degree in Popular Culture. Published extensively in Australia and overseas, Karen is also a columnist for the Courier Mail, and a social commentator on local, Brisbane and national radio as well as working with Channel 7 Sunrise and Today/Tonight. She is also a fantasy novelist and her fifth novel was due out this year.
Topic to be advised (Information strand)
his workshop will continue the themes raised in the keynote presentation and allow for greater interaction between Karen and the delegates.
M2b -- Karen Bonanno - minor keynote
Director of KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd
Karen is the Director of private company, providing administration, management and clerical services to not-for-profit professional associations. The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) and the International Association for School Librarianship (IASL) are two major clients. Karen is a qualified teacher-librarian and has work experience in private and public secondary schools as a teacher, teacher-librarian and administrator. She has held executive positions in SLAQ and ASLA and was awarded the ASLA Citation in 2001 in recognition of her contribution to teacher librarianship in Australia. Her professional interests are information and knowledge management within professional groups, and information literacy in the learning community. Karen recently upgraded her qualifications in teacher librarianship and graduated, in 2005, with a Master of Applied Science (Teacher Librarianship) with Distinction. She was awarded the Capra Ryan Australian Teacher Librarianship Prize for the student with the highest grade point average for this course.
Information management and emerging technologies * (Information strand)
Students of today are the natives of a digital, hi-tech, virtual environment that entertains and informs. Personal Digital Entertainment devices (PDEs), MP3 players (iPods), Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, laptops, TabletPCs, USB memory sticks, gaming devices, digital cameras are, for some, a digital toolkit. These devices allow them to access and/or create Blogs, Chat, email, MUDs, MOOs, MUVEs, Moblogs, Photoblogs, Podcasts, SMS, Wikis, Vlogs and VoIP. This presentation will focus on issues of information management and policy development as essential preliminary areas requiring immediate attention.
M2d -- Margaret Spillman & Lorraine Todd
Margaret has been the teacher-librarian at Mackay West State School for the past eight years. In 2000 she co-submitted a project on Boys and literacy, which won a Showcase Excellence award. Now she is exploring the area of public and school library co-operation. In 2005 the program that she helped to develop, Productive Partnerships - learning for life, won the IASL/Softlink International Excellence Award. The program was also presented at the ASLA Online II conference. The theme for all Margaret's work is the improvement in student learning outcomes. In December 2000, Lorraine was a member of the team that created the school's website, which she now maintains. It consisted of seven pages and has grown to approximately 150. It includes Cyberville, a site created specifically for students that contains relevant evaluated sites. In September 2004, she was profiled in Education Queensland's Education Views for developing a site that informs, educates, promotes and publicises. All elements of the Productive Partnerships program are documented on the website so that schools can implement any aspect of the program if they wish. Her role has evolved in the 13 years she has been with Mackay West Primary School to include: teacher-aide, administrative assistant, library assistant, web pilot and, more recently, EMag creator. She has presented at several conferences as a member of the Productive Partnerships team. Lorraine also works at Cathy's Fine Arts Gallery.
Productive partnerships: learning for life* (Management strand)
The team of Margaret Spillman, Lorraine Todd and Claire Grandcourt has developed an enduring strategic alliance between the school and public library service that has resulted in the development of a program: Productive partnerships - learning for life. The four elements of the program include Work shadowing, a Library monitor program, GOAL (Grade 1s at the library) and the School website.
M2e -- Sharon Rushton
Sharon is retired teacher-librarian, now writing for Curriculum Corporation active units that involve students in their environment and the global issues of today. She was the untiring convener of the highly successful state conference held on the Gold Coast in 2004. Sharon has retained her membership to SLAQ, but, most importantly, is producing learning resources that encourage students to become actively involved in their own learning.
Activate your students: don’t teach them, get them involved (Information strand)
This workshop is aimed at extending 'Inquiry-based learning' by integrating basic skills and information literacy skills into curriculum. Emphasis will be given to planning units using an integrated curriculum approach by encouraging students to become actively involved in their own learning. Such an approach can be adapted across all primary grade levels and into middle school grades. The thinkers of today are the problem-solvers of tomorrow.
M2f Trade Fair * -- take an individual leisurely tour through the conference trade fair.
M2g -- Tour to Gordon White Library & Holy Spirit College 8-12 *
Gordon White Library services the northern suburbs of Mackay and includes a mobile library service. Holy Spirit College's library serves students from years 8-12 and is famous locally for its displays in its recently renovated library.
M3a -- Paul Tulloh
Paul has been associated with education, marketing resource products for several years specialising in Internet reference resources.
Conducting safe/sure Internet research
Online information sources from Grolier Online, provides teacher-librarians with a "one-stop-shop" enabling a searcher to gain current information at their own level from either encyclopaedic articles, magazines, periodicals or educational web links that have been vetted to ensure their suitability before being placed as a link. Discover how students at all levels of learning, reading abilities and a range of interests, can source information at their own comfort level combining magazines, safe educational web sites and encyclopaedic articles using authoritative sources in the shortest possible time from the Internet. Learn something new by attending.
M3b -- Denise Tarlinton
Denise is currently curriculum support teacher at Kurwongbah State School. She was a member of the school team from Kurwongbah State School that was awarded the inaugural Brian Bahnisch Award in 2004 and was the state nominee for the Australian Teacher-librarian of the Year Award in both 2004 and 2005. She is a casual lecturer in teacher-librarianship within the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at QUT.
Why thinking? Developing a whole school thinking skills program within your school (Information strand)
Edward de Bono does it, so does Tony Ryan! Isn’t it time that you did it too? This session is designed for schools interested in developing a whole school culture of thinking across their school community. Share in one school’s journey- includes practical information and hands-on access to valuable web resources. Topics covered include Six thinking hats, Thinker’s keys, Bloom’s revised taxonomy, Multiple intelligences, Dimensions of learning and Gifted and talented education.
M3c -- Helen Reynolds & Marj Kirkland
Helen is the Senior Librarian at The Southport School, a boys day/boarding school on the Gold Coast. Although her main passion is ensuring that TSS boys develop a love of reading she also acknowledges the importance of developing and maintaining a professional portfolio for herself and her staff. Marj is presently teacher-librarian at Aquinas College on the Gold Coast. She has been a teacher-librarian since 1977 with a short break from education as a scientific librarian for the State Library of Queensland. Marj has enjoyed many roles in schools: teacher, academic and pastoral coordinator, ATSI tutor and yearbook editor. She is passionate about extending students' worlds through reading and literacy improvement.
A tale of two libraries: reading success in secondary school libraries (Literature strand)
Research has shown that children’s reading has a major correlation to their literacy levels, yet reading promotion remains a challenge for teacher-librarians in the digital age. This workshop will outline successful reading programs in two secondary schools – The Southport School and Aquinas College.
M3d -- Chris Kahl
Over the years my teaching role has lead me to Southeast and Central Queensland in cities and country towns; to an education centre and regional advisory roles; to key teacher for the Diagnostic Net and teacher-librarian in numerous schools of varying sizes. I am currently teacher-librarian and curriculum coordinator at Enoggera State School and am enjoying the challenge of teacher-librarianship after many years in the classroom.
Up close and personal with interactive whiteboards* (Management strand)
Interactive Whiteboards have made significant inroads into teaching and learning in classrooms, but are they of real value in your library? In this session you will discover how creative use of interactive whiteboards can expand your effectiveness as a curriculum leader in your school. Linking innovative strategies to interactive whiteboards will boost your library’s role as a major learning centre within your school.
M3e -- Patrice Ramsay
Patrice is currently Head of Curriculum (part-time) at Bulimba State School in Brisbane, and is also an Evaluation Officer (part-time) at Education Queensland's Curriculum Exchange. She has over twenty years teacher experience as a primary classroom teacher, primary teacher-librarian, and now Head of Curriculum. In her role as the Curriculum Exchange, Patrice is part of a team that gathers and edits teacher contributions of effective teaching ideas and practices and evaluates external online resources for relevant to Queensland schools.
Connecting, not rejecting: helping teachers become ‘multimodal’ through the quality resources and tools of EQ’s Learning Place* (Information strand)
Teachers are being encouraged to integrate ICTs and engage in multi-modal learning in their classrooms. This is more challenging for some than for others. This session will show how teacher-librarians can assist teachers to engage with multimodal learning and teaching through the promotion of the quality online resources and tools available in the Curriculum Exchange resource centre which is part of the Learning Place, EQ’s e-learning environment. During this hands-on workshop you will be guided through an exploration of the new Learning Place to explain and demonstrate:
• Various methods of searching for resources
• The Le@rning Federation (TLF) learning objects
• How to integrate the latest online resources and tools
M3f -- Trade Fair * -- take an individual leisurely tour through the conference trade fair.
M3g -- Tour to Mackay West State School P-7 & St Francis Zavier P-7 *
Mackay West State School is the home of the IASL/Softlink International Excellence Award winners, Margaret Spillman and Lorraine Todd. St Francis Xavier school library is coordinated by Lanie Argent, a library aide, who provides a welcoming, bright, learning atmosphere in the library at St Francis Xavier School.
M4 - 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm -- Optional Special Interest Groups (Refer to the session selection form to make your choice).
M5 - 6.30 pm for 7.00 pm -- Conference dinner (presentation of Brian Bahnisch Award)
Last updated 30 August 2006