A little while back I did a review of Easybib as an assignment for one of my courses. It's a tool we recommend to our students. For a while I was impressed by it's notetaking tool and I've tried using it a few times because it kind of makes intuitive sense. But it just doesn't work … Continue reading How I used to write
Information literacy – Beyond Search and Cite
Here is the presentation I gave at the Bangkok Librarian workshare last weekend. Basically my argument is we shouldn't start our conversations on information literacy with the choice of which model we'll employ, but should take a step back to what our philosophy of learning is, ..... read more
Critical Reflection ETL401
In this course, what I have learnt in the library and information sphere is now placed in the context of the school library, which is where I hope to further my career. In doing so it has clarified and added detail to concepts such as the role of the teacher librarian (TL) and information literacy … Continue reading Critical Reflection ETL401
Thought experiments and information literacy
A little while back KDA (Librarian Edge), enthusiastically placed a book on my desk and said I had to read it and I had to create a library guide based on it (I did, see this, and it was very enthusiastically received by Mr. Fleischman). She was completely right. What a wonderful resource has been … Continue reading Thought experiments and information literacy
Blog task 3: Information Literacy is more than a set of skills
The question of whether information literacy (IL) is more than a set of skills is an important one, as it sets the philosophical basis that informs the approach that an institution and its administrators, teachers and teacher librarians (TL) take in the design and implementation of a program. IL can probably thought as occurring along … Continue reading Blog task 3: Information Literacy is more than a set of skills
The role of the TL in practise with regard to the convergence of literacies in the 21st Century
In what authors are referring to as the post Gutenberg parenthesis society, (Kenny, 2011; Pettitt, Donaldson, & Paradis, 2010), an emphasis on textual literacy is no longer sufficient. Shifts in technology, particularly with the advent of Web 2.0 and its social media affordances mean that literacy has become a dynamic and multifaceted concept that goes … Continue reading The role of the TL in practise with regard to the convergence of literacies in the 21st Century
Informative Flights - Musings of a Teacher Librarian 