Friday, September 14, 2012

My first hub get-together

Yesterday I attended my first ever TL Hub meeting at Tyndale Christian School. It was great to meet such enthusiastic Teacher Librarians all keen to share ideas. They were all overjoyed to discuss the prospects for the CSA TL Conference planned for next year. The difference between e-books and e-textbooks also enlightened me to some of the pitfalls of e-textbooks. Creative ideas from Book Week were shared including: 1) A Reading Expo (similar to a Wedding Expo), for Years 5-8. Groups had to make a stall to try and sell, advertise their book ( a book on the shortlist for book week)eg. Students made a stew and some bookmarks to hand out for the book Wombat Stew, other groups made book trailers (Children's Book Council) 2) A Reading Olympics - Reading Incentive which began with an Olympic Torch moving around each classroom. Students had to complete Reading events, eg. sprints=1 Home Reader=1 point, Hurdles=3 Bible Stories=3 points, Ping pong= Read a book and pass to a friend=points. Reading Logs kept in Library. 3) Reading Quiz - Guess who's Reading? Pictures of Teachers with face covered by a book. 4) Reading Hour -Over 1 week, whole school during Devotions. 5) Teacher's reading their favourite short-listed books to the school. 1 per week to each class - teacher's move to each class, students stay in their own classrooms. Teachers dress up and take props to make their Readings interesting. Wonderful Picture Book - " Bus called heaven". Idea for opening of our new Library - Guest Writer - Penny Reeves (author of 11 Children's picture books). What I need to research? 1) Wheelers. 2) Read Cloud. Viewed an amazing School Library at PLC - Croydon, They have 4 floors and a digital TV and interactive whiteboard on each level joined together by a single column.This library is really embracing 21st Century learning!!

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