Hello, and welcome to our new blog which we have created in order to share our ideas, knowledge and experience as school librarians.
As the name might suggest we are a network of librarians who work in schools throughout County Durham, in the North East of England. We meet up in a different school library each term throughout the school year and discuss all sorts of topics relating to school libraries. In fact, we had a great meeting on Tuesday which Jaqcui Durcan hosted in the (rather lovely!) library at Durham High School for Girls. The topic for discussion was e-books, blogs and new technology. Jeff Wilson, ICT Director of Moorside Community Technology College, gave a presentation about how iPads and other new technology is used in lessons at the school. The presentation included a video blog the headteacher had made to show the difference uses of new technology - the video is included below.
The video prompted some interesting discussions about the use of blogs, Twitter, iPads and other technology in schools and their libraries.
Angela Roe from Belmont Community School, an administrator for Caroline Roche's (Resource Centre Manager at Holmesdale Technology College in Kent. Caroline is passionate about reading, and library advocacy. She is also an accredited SSAT Lead Practitioner for 2010/11) The Heart of the School website (a brilliant site for librarians...and other educators!), talked about the importance of advocacy and the need for school librarians to Shout About all of the fantastic things that happen in/as a result of the school library. Indeed, CILIP have launched a Shout About campaign, in which they are encouraging people to raise awareness of the value of school libraries and School Library Services, and the important role they play in the lives of the children and wider communities that they serve. You can follow the campaign on Twitter via the #shoutabout hastag.
Angela Roe from Belmont Community School, an administrator for Caroline Roche's (Resource Centre Manager at Holmesdale Technology College in Kent. Caroline is passionate about reading, and library advocacy. She is also an accredited SSAT Lead Practitioner for 2010/11) The Heart of the School website (a brilliant site for librarians...and other educators!), talked about the importance of advocacy and the need for school librarians to Shout About all of the fantastic things that happen in/as a result of the school library. Indeed, CILIP have launched a Shout About campaign, in which they are encouraging people to raise awareness of the value of school libraries and School Library Services, and the important role they play in the lives of the children and wider communities that they serve. You can follow the campaign on Twitter via the #shoutabout hastag.
Looking good! Topic for next meeting to be held at Barnard Castle School to be about students who require learning support, their difficulties and strategies to help them. Guest speaker Maria Waddington Head of Learning Support. Date to be confirmed.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds really interesting Caroline - I'm looking forward to it (hope it doesn't snow too much!).
ReplyDeleteOff on a tangent, I'm going on a course about literacy strategies in a couple of weeks and I'd be happy to feed back the main points on the blog here.