tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23998516119450493062024-03-05T17:05:03.204+08:00ISLN - SingaporeInternational School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-55952548693039083652018-11-26T08:08:00.001+08:002018-11-26T08:08:12.169+08:00The launch of a new ISLN webpageThis blog has now been superseded by a brand new ISLN webpage.<br />
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<br />International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-81743682427524631282018-08-19T10:13:00.002+08:002018-08-19T10:13:23.465+08:00A New Year has Begun<iframe width="100%" height="600" src="https://www.smore.com/4b9kc-what-s-the-word?embed=1" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="min-width: 320px;border: none;"></iframe>International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-33890404656447448722018-06-14T15:35:00.001+08:002018-06-14T15:36:06.883+08:00End of Year Thoughts<iframe width="100%" height="600" src="https://www.smore.com/6qem9-what-s-the-word?embed=1" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="min-width: 320px;border: none;"></iframe>International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-12685999006821944712018-05-14T15:50:00.000+08:002018-05-14T15:50:08.867+08:00A Reflection on the 2018 Red Dot Readers Cup <span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Incoming <a href="http://lollibrarian.blogspot.sg/" target="_blank">ISLN President Melissa Cooper</a> shares her thoughts on this year's Red Dot Readers Cup, back after a short hiatus: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Singing, collaboration and the thrill of competition is a winning combination for our international readers. Seeing students smile with pride at their accomplishments plus working with students from other schools makes all the effort of planning worthwhile. The power of the International School Librarian Network of Singapore (ISLN) made it all possible. <a href="https://twitter.com/librarianedge" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Katie Day</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/barb_philip" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barb Reid</a> hosted a session on the power of a good librarian network and an event such as the Readers Cup really highlights the level of collaboration and interaction.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This year's Readers Cup Festival had a number of components: book trivia quizzes, book cover competition, viewing book trailers and, what I feel was the most enlivening component, students from different schools mixing together to work together on book-related activities. Our books are based on our '<a href="http://www.reddotawards.com/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Red Dot Books</a>' which are selected by teacher librarians in the ISLN and are a diverse set of books from authors from various countries as well as a diversity of genres and characters. There are 8 books in each category: picture, younger, older and mature. We do our best to have a balanced mix. Our students prepare for the quiz working in Book Clubs with about 6 other students with a teacher mentor over a period of a few months, enough time for all the children to read and get to know all the books. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">For my school, I had 7 teams of older students and 5 teams of younger students</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">who had a teacher mentor that met with them once a week during lunch hour. The teacher ensured the kids stayed on track with their reading, provided guidance for creating book covers and trailers and of course, like any book club, talked about the books. Since we had so many teams we needed to run a trial quiz since there are limited spaces per school, this year we were permitted to have 2 teams in each category.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Having students work with students from other schools was a key component since they're required to use a different set of skills. We have so many schools in such a close vicinity that we really need to better utilize this tool, the activities were a good step in the right direction. The students needed to collaborate and problem solve with strangers on a task that required them to have a creative product, our younger students made a skit about a favourite part in a book and the older students created jingles. Our kids really stepped up to the mark, they negotiated, they planned, they performed and they laughed. It was really heartwarming as a teacher watching the kids have fun, and have fun with books!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The famous quiz requires a different skill set: knowledge, sportsmanship, comprehension, strategy and again, collaboration. We used <a href="https://create.kahoot.it/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kahoot</a> to host multiple choice quizzes for each book and then added up scores to decide on the final winner. The overall winner received the 'Readers Cup'!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This simplified description doesn't highlight the challenges of coordinating multiple schools with different schedules and moreover, strong teacher librarians who are busy and have their own opinions. We required a committee, led by the passionate <a href="https://twitter.com/BotakLibrarian" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Lisa Miller</a>, who met a handful of times to sort logistics: venue, time of day, prizes, activities, etc.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Our lovely hosts this year was <a href="https://twitter.com/DCSG_Dulwich" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Dulwich College</a>, this was the perfect venue. It has a gorgeous theatre to lend the gravity needed to make the event seem special and to host opening and closing ceremonies. Sarah Mousney and Jane Hayes, the teacher librarians were very well organized in having their tech staff prepared with projecting the quiz, extra iPads and of course ensuring we had a solid wireless connection. They also recruited a number of teachers to help guide participants through the school from different areas. The librarians didn't complain when our students started to rearrange their furniture in the library in order to perform. And they have a canteen area large enough to accommodate us all. These ladies had a large role in the organization of the event, and I wonder if there's a way to adjust our planning to better support hosts?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The area that we found challenging was collaborating to write questions for the quizzes. Our goal was to have everyone contribute some questions and then have an 'impartial' person who wasn't participating add some questions in an attempt to be impartial. It would have been too much for one person to write quizzes for 24 books. When we attempted to have students write questions, which is what I used for the trial quizzes, they were rather simple. Since Kahoot is multiple choice, it takes a bit of time to craft challenging questions and answers. In our reflection, it was suggested we outsource this job but after having written multiple sets of questions, and answers, I believe they need to be developed by someone who has read the books closely and even better if you have used the books with the students.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Another challenge we faced as a committee seemed to be adhering to deadlines. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We realized that we had set the event just after a major holiday for all of us, over a 3 week period all of us were out of school for 2 weeks and to compound the problem it was over different weeks.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Since there were delays when people were checking and completing tasks, we lost our direction as to who was responsible for each component. This increased the last minute rush to get pieces in place and raised stress levels all around. Thankfully, as teacher librarians we are well versed in the rush and putting pieces together in a flash along with a smile. It said something about our collective professionalism to pull it together.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">For prizes, we have a brilliant local book vendor Denise Tan from a <a href="http://www.closetfulofbooks.com/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Closetful of Books</a> who provided our winners with a book voucher that could be spent at a book fair which they hosted throughout the event. We also approached <a href="https://www.getepic.com/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Epic books</a> for a handful of free memberships. One of the members, Kate Brundage, kindly carried a number of autographed books from the United States that we awarded as door prizes throughout the competition. And no Nationwide competition would be complete without medals and cups! A lovely big cup is awarded to the school of the winning team to display for a year and each winning student gets a medal. Some of the registration fees went to funding for food and prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">surprisingly difficult to get them to produce thoughtful book covers and trailers. Since we meet at lunch hour, they don't really have much time to produce something creative in that time frame. I had mentors complain last year that 12 weeks was too long, so I scaled the book clubs back to 8 weeks, thinking book clubs could focus on a book each week. The problem is this didn't allow time for creative endeavours. I had encouraged kids to come and draw and create trailers in the library any time during recess but it didn't happen. I had to rely on students producing products outside of our meeting times. Although we provided rubrics and guidelines for the covers and trailers, they weren't well utilized. However, my colleague, the famous <a href="https://twitter.com/intlNadine" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nadine Bailey</a><span style="text-align: center;">collaborated with the art teacher and the kids produced gorgeous covers. For next year, I will need to rethink how we will encourage students to produce quality covers and trailers.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br />
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International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-53689759052270540282018-05-01T16:22:00.000+08:002018-05-01T16:22:30.753+08:00The votes are in for the Red Dot Awards 2017-18!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-14335900735642412482018-04-30T15:01:00.001+08:002018-04-30T15:01:07.533+08:00Open letter from Sally & Stephen about LKSW 2018<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear All </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are pleased to share that this year’s conference will be hosted at Bangkok Patana School in Thailand on the 8th, 9th and 10th November 2018. </span><br />
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The 8th will be given over to school visits in Bangkok and the 9th and 10th will be conference days at school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A massive thanks to Jenn Alevy and her colleagues for creating such a wonderful experience at last year’s conference in Vietnam; we certainly have a hard act to follow! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuKRBNg6Mhpv1C3zbfeCe76Wkp1qPDlz-I2RpJPXw-D8v72w/viewform" target="_blank">Please can you click here to complete an Expressions of Interest in attending sign-up sheet</a>.
We hope that you can all make it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until formal registration is completed any updates about the conference will be posted on the LKSW facebook page. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LibrariansKnowledgeSharingWorkshop/" target="_blank">Please do join this group here</a> if you haven’t already done so. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.alia.org.au/events/13403/asia-pacific-library-and-information-conference-2018" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Asia-Pacific Library</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and Information Conference. Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia.</span></div>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://21clhk.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">21st Century Learning Conferences</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://slic.wikispaces.com/ACAMIS" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">ACAMIS (Association of China and Mongolian International Schools) Librarians Network</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="https://www.alia.org.au/events/conferences-symposiums-and-summits" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">ALIA (Australian Library & Information Association) conferences</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.earcos.org/conf_calendar.php" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">EARCOS upcoming conference schedule</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.iasl-online.org/meetings/info.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IASL (International Association of School Libraries) conference schedule</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/edtech-conferences-asia-or-close" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">EdTech Conferences (Asia or close)</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> - a</span> <a href="http://scoop.it/" style="line-height: 1.4;">Scoop.it</a> <span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">page curated by Chris Smith (Shambles)</span>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="https://www.gafesummit.com/asia/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Google Apps Education Summit Conferences</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> -- Asia </span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ibby.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IBBY - International Board on Books for Young People</a></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">2018 Istanbul, Turkey, Sept 1-4 (</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6t5hASQTQ" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">cancelled due to political situation in Turkey</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">2019 China </span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ibbycongress2020.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2020 Moscow, Russia</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> 5-7 September 2020 </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4;">Great big world through children's books</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;">2022 Putrajay, Malaysia 5-8 September 2022 </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.4;">The Power of Stories</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ibo.org/professional-development/find-events-and-workshops/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization) - Asia-Pacific region -- workshops</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) annual conference</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://innovativeglobaled.org/events-4.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Innovative Global Education</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ksithailand.com/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Knowledge Source Institute</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Chiang Mai, Thailand</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://learning2.info/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Learning 2.0</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop & Job-Alike</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.las.org.sg/wp/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Library Association of Singapore</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> (LAS) -- well worth getting on their mailing list</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.sg/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">National Book Development Council of Singapore</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> (NBDCS) (includes the annual </span><a href="http://afcc.com.sg/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">AFCC - Asian Festival of Children's Content</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> -- held every year at the end of May) -- well worth getting on their mailing list</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://schoollibrarianconnection.com/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">The School Librarian Connection</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://schoollibrarysymposium.wikispaces.com/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Shanghai Librarians Network - Symposia</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/centre" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">UWCSEA Centre for International Education</a></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.21clhk.org/conference-overview/" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">21st Century Learning</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Hong Kong 17-19 Jan 2018 (Hong Kong)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://blogs.tas.edu.tw/techintegratedlibrary/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">EARCOS: 2015: The Tech-Integrated Library, Taipei American School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Nov 7-8</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"><a href="http://www.earcos.org/etc2018.php" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">EARCOS Teachers' Conference</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> in Bangkok. </span></span>29-31 March 2018 (Bangkok, Thailand)</li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="https://www.gafesummit.com/asia/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Google Apps Education Summit Conferences</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> -- Asia </span></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://sg.gafesummit.com/2016/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: Singapore Summit - Google Apps for Education, Singapore American School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Sept 17-18</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.iasl-online.org/meetings/info.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IASL (International Association of School Libraries) conference schedule</a></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://iasl2016.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016 Tokyo, Japan</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Aug 22-26</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ibby.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">IBBY - International Board on Books for Young People</a></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.ibbycongress2016.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016 New Zealand,</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> Aug 18-21 </span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://ibbyaoric2017.tkpark.or.th/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2017 Oceania</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> 9-12 May 2017, Bangkok, Thailand</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://innovativeglobaled.org/events-4.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Innovative Global Education</a></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://innovativeglobaled.org/events_more_Upcoming_events_UPCOMING_EVENT__Innovative_Global_Education_Conference__September_2016-4a-18.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: Hong Kong: Innovative Global Education Conference, Renaissance College</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Sept 3-4</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://handsonlit.com/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">ISLN - Hands on Literacy</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> (November 2012)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://learning2.info/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">Learning 2.0</a></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><a href="http://learning2asia.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: Vietnam - Learning 2.0, Saigon South International School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, HCMC, Oct. 6-8</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop & Job-Alike</span></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://alice-smith.libguides.com/JAW" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2013: Kuala Lumpur - Alice Smith School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Oct 5-6</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://libguides.jis.edu.bn/lksw" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2014: Brunei - Jerudong International School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Feb 20-21</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://blogs.shrewsbury.ac.th/lksw/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2015: Bangkok - Shrewsbury International School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Fri/Sat Feb 6-7</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://libguides.gardenschool.edu.my/c.php?g=318994&p=2130985" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: Kuala Lumpur - Garden International School</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Mar 4-5</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="https://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/centre/librarian-17" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2017: Singapore - United World College of SE Asia - East campus</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Feb 17-18</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444;">2017: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/ais.edu.vn/lksw2017-2018/home" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">LKSW</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> at Bangkok Patana School,Thailand </span>16-18 Nov 2017 (HCMC, Vietnam)</li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://schoollibrarianconnection.com/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">The School Librarian Connection</a></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.schoollibrarianconnection.com/hong-kong-2014.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2014: Hong Kong - Renaissance College</a></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.schoollibrarianconnection.com/beijing-programme.html" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: Beijing - Keystone Academy</a></li>
</ul>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">Singapore American School</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://sasclc.sas.edu.sg/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2013: SAS Children's Literature Conference</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Feb 1-3</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.sas.edu.sg/page.cfm?p=2130" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2015: iCreate Conference</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, Fri eve/Sat Jan 23-24</span></li>
</ul>
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<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/centre" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">UWCSEA Centre for International Education</a></li>
<li style="list-style: none;"><ul style="list-style: disc; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">2017: Singapore: reThinking Literacy, UWCSEA Dover, May 11-13 (in conjunction with 21st Century Learning)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">2017: Singapore: reThinking Numeracy, UWCSEA Dover, May 4-6 (in conjunction with 21st Century Learning)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://rethinkingliteracy.org/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 1.4;">2016: reThinkingLiteracy</a><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.4;">, UWCSEA Dover campus, Apr 21-23</span></li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-89613954551831537802018-02-20T13:35:00.003+08:002018-02-20T13:35:28.688+08:00The 3rd Regional Workshop On School Libraries In South East Asia: A Way Forward<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Sandra Sangines is an IT Officer and Library Officer at </span><span style="background-color: white;">ISS International School. ISLN was happy to support her attendance at </span><span style="text-align: center;">The 3rd
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The workshop that I attended last October 1st to 3rd of 2017 gave me the opportunity to meet different delegates from Southeast Asian Countries as they share their ideas, best practices and current status of their library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I met and interacted with some moderators of the workshop as they discussed how different countries promotes information and digital literacy, their school projects and the upgrading of their libraries. I also met other library staff from Tanglin Trust School. We shared our library developments and best practices as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sitting beside me in the photos are the library staff of Tanglin Trust School who I met and have kept in contact with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many thanks to ISSLN for the opportunity to do this as part of my personal development.</span><br />
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This is not for absolute beginners in Libguides, so if you're just starting out, it's suggested you follow some of the <a href="https://support.springshare.com/libguides/training" target="_blank">courses by Springshare</a> first (Link only works if you're signed in). You will also need the CMS version of Libguides to be able to participate.<br />
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Please also download a web text-editor such as<a href="https://atom.io/" target="_blank"> Atom</a> so you are able to customise what you're learning to your own situation.<br />
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<b>Dates:</b> JANUARY 9, 23 and 30 (Tuesdays)<br />
<b>Location:</b> Canadian International School, 371 Tanjong Katong Road, Singapore<br />
<b>Time: </b>4.30pm-6.00pm<br />
<b>Bring: </b>Laptop, your login details for Libguides (administrator level authorisation needed); a snack to share<br />
<b>Compensation: </b>Course is free of charge, but we would expect you to pay the community back in kind with help on ISLN committees, book selections for the Red Dot Books for 2018/9 etc.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-12842187782224687512017-10-27T12:37:00.001+08:002017-10-27T12:37:05.749+08:00Creating Red Dot Excitement at Dulwich College SingaporeAs everyone is aware, last year we had a hiatus in the Readers' Cup Competition, but many school still purchased the Red Dot books and arranged activities around this.<br />
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Here is a contribution from Sarah Mounsey about how they promoted the books and did an internal competition. As they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat, so we welcome contributions from our member schools on practical and logistical details of how they worked with their Red Dot Books last year, or how they plan to do it this year. All can be used as inspiration and adapted for your personal library / situation.<br />
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Red Dot timeline / event 2016/7 - Dulwich College Singapore</h2>
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The students from the book club ECA's started reading the books as soon as they arrived from <b>September/October</b>. So did the reading ambassadors (Year 6) and Library Assistants (Year 5). Most of these students read all or most of the books in their age category.<br />
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In <b>December </b>Jane Hayes and I organised a wine, cheese, chocolate and books afternoon in the library to entice staff to read at least one read dot book over the Christmas break.<br />
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I went to each year group's meeting and tried to get them excited about the books, telling them all about each book and encouraging them all to choose one to do as a class reader.<br />
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<b>January:</b> We launched the books in a whole school assembly and the reading ambassadors did a short book talk about each book.<br />
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The students had a house meeting and in their year groups and had to form teams of between 8 and 10. In their team they had to ensure that each book would be read by at least one person. All students were asked to choose one book they would like to read and they had to put their name in a list in the library to read this book. <br />
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Many students read more than one, in fact I would say 70% of students did.<br />
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Most books we had only 8 copies of so we spent a lot of time delivering books to classes as soon as someone had returned a book. We used parent volunteers and students library assistants to support with this because I only have one library assistant.<br />
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Almost every child read a red dot book, there were a few who slipped through the gaps. This year it will be easier because for younger readers I will ensure every class listens to Burt Munro and for older readers parts of Stormy Seas.<br />
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At the end of <b>April</b> we had our huge house event. Each year group (year 3-6) had an afternoon event which went over two lessons. I have attached the instructions for this (they're at the bottom of the blog). This was such a fun, high energy event and worth all of the hard work.<br />
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The house spirit in our school is huge so regardless of whether students ended up in the final, they were delighted to be cheering on their team and also could participate on whiteboards from the audience. <br />
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The Kahoot round was the most popular and I may change it this year to use Kahoot for the first round also.<br />
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It has really resulted in the students being excited by the red dots books earlier this year also. I have not decided exactly how I will choose my teams for Readers Cup, but I know it will be a challenge because the excitement over red dot books is now huge.<br />
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First round – In houses in classrooms</h3>
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Staffing / space needed</h4>
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One classroom per grade participating with two staff members per room; 7 judges running between classes and marking long form answers</div>
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<b>Round 1: </b>By the end of this round there will be a winning team for each house who will represent their house on the stage in lesson 6.</div>
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Students all to have a reading book with them for DEAR (drop everything and read) to be done whilst judges are marking. IT MUST NOT BE A RED DOT BOOK! :)</div>
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The students all chose teams last term and I will share them with you on Monday. Some of them have team names, some do not. If they don’t have a team name ask them to come up with a quick name at the start of the lesson. Also there may be some students who are absent and there may be the odd student who was not allocated to a team. Please place them in any team where the numbers are lower. There should be 6- 8 students in each team. </div>
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I will deliver all question sheets to the 4 classrooms for the start of lesson 5.</div>
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<li>4 questions per book, 32 questions altogether.</li>
<li>All completed on paper, team converse to record the answers. Please do one book at a time, not all at once.</li>
<li>Teams to fill in their house and team name at the top before starting.</li>
<li>As soon as they have finished each sheet, send to the judges to mark (we will ‘run’ between the classrooms or you can also bring them to the library). Judges/markers I will have answer sheets for you and results tables to fill in with the scores.</li>
<li>If there is a draw within a house. Extra long answer questions done.</li>
<li>As soon as there is a clear winner for your house we will advise you to start moving the students to the theatre. It would be ideal if this is done during lesson 5 so that there is more time for the finals on the stage. </li>
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Can students all bring whiteboards and pens if they wish to take part from the audience and also bring their books for DEAR.</div>
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Please sit all of your house together in the theatre.</div>
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Auditorium with one person per house on stage. Five staff members in the audience. A photographer, 3 judges and someone in charge overall. </div>
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Audience to have whiteboards to take part and keep score. Children also to bring a book to read (NOT a red dot book) because we will do DEAR while judges are conferring.</div>
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<li><b>Round 2.</b> Team Chat. There will be 1 question per book. As a group write the answer on a whiteboard and then show it to the judges. 30 seconds per question. (8 questions short answer).</li>
<li><b>Round 3.</b> Kahoot round- fastest finger first. (if kahoot doesn’t work, buzzers or bells as a backup) </li>
<li><b>Round 4.</b> Written round: 8 questions. 5 mins. Children work as a team to answer all 8 questions in the time given. While this is happening DEAR OR if book trailers and posters have not all been shown, show the rest at this point. (Short answer)</li>
<li><b>Round 5</b> What's in the box (fast and furious). Nominate 2 people to answer on the microphone at the front of the stage.</li>
<li><b>Tie Breaker. </b> If it is a tie at this stage. Repeat question from the box- sudden death. </li>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-58035523076255157062017-10-18T19:01:00.000+08:002017-10-18T19:01:44.101+08:00Learning journey from SMU Libraries to SOTA LibraryReach out to your neighbor – and literally we did. This was a mutual objective shared by Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries and School of the Arts (SOTA) Library as we bonded over a learning journey in the afternoon of Friday 25 August 2017.<br />
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A university with a key focus on business and law – and a pre-tertiary specialized arts school – what do we have in common? How different are we? More importantly, what challenges do the libraries in these 2 institutions face? Read on to find out more!<br />
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In part due to physical proximity, SMU Libraries thought it a great idea to visit SOTA Library as part of their Learning Circle activities to share and learn good practices. The Learning Circle is a series of continuous professional development for staff of SMU. These could be in the form of faculty talk, conference sharing, learning journey, training, development, and the like. These activities aim to support the SMU librarians in helping them to keep abreast of the latest library and information industry trends. These trends are constantly evolving in today’s increasingly digital age.<br />
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About 25 visitors from the SMU Libraries team visited SOTA Library. They were from both the Li Ka Shing Library and Kwa Geok Choo Law Library. The visit started with an introduction by Ms Adeline Neo (Senior Manager, SOTA Library) on the library layout and its range of facilities, before bringing the visitors on a tour to the various venues in the library. She also shared on new initiatives to optimize space usage and improve ease of retrieval of library items for users, such as building of new shelves to house the teachers’ resource collection. This collection had been housed in a room that had, over time, been used more for meetings and other activities.<br />
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The visitors had a good time exploring the facilities in the numerous discussion rooms, which are also equipped to be used as classrooms. We learnt that SMU Libraries has many open spaces for individual use, as well as for research and collaborative pedagogy. The range of facilities include 24/7 Learning Commons, Investment Studio, Learning Labs, Project Rooms – all of which are designed to be conducive for learning.<br />
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One of the highlights of the library tour was when our visitors tried on the node school chairs in the newly furbished Learning Centre – where they enjoyed manoeuvring these flexible and mobile chairs, which are designed to enable quicker transition from one teaching mode to the next, as compared to the conventional school tables and chairs.<br />
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As we came to the Cool Stuff Zone, which is the library’s main display area and often doubled up as a venue for talks and programmes, Adeline pointed out on the specially designed book display shelves showcasing a selection of Singapore Art Museum (SAM) publications. Earlier in 2017, SAM and SOTA had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to work together so as to provide greater access to quality resources on Southeast Asian contemporary visual art. Initiated by the Visual Arts faculty in SOTA, SAM would extend copies of its publication to SOTA Library. SOTA Library would include these into its collection to support teaching and research of Southeast Asian contemporary art, develop student knowledge of the visual arts sector, as well as generate greater awareness of and participation in SAM programmes.<br />
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Our SMU guests then sat down for a quick break of refreshing fruit platters at the Teacher’s Resource Centre. After which, I conducted a presentation on SOTA's background, curriculum and programmes. At this point, our guests let on that they used to have the impression that SOTA is a vocational school for secondary school students. They were glad to quash their misconception and learn that it is the only national pre-tertiary specialised arts school with a six-year integrated arts and academic curriculum, which leads to the International Baccalaureate Diploma or Career-related Programme for youths aged 13 to 18 years old.<br />
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I further spoke about the ongoing partnership between SOTA Library and the various faculties to identify, select and source for relevant materials that support informational, research, curriculum and reading needs of the SOTA community. Beyond print, SOTA Library is looking towards the direction of leveraging more on electronic resources. Database trials for Infobase’s Science Online, Bloom’s Literature and Classroom Video On Demand are recent potential additions to SOTA’s range of subscribed online resources.<br />
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Following that, I briefly explained SOTA’s pedagogy and teaching philosophy - one that celebrates experimentation, expression and discovery as a school of the future - and how it nurtures the students into tomorrow’s artists and leaders. The visitors were impressed to learn that a SOTA alumnus, Ms Cheri Wee, was among the five students who had been awarded the 2017 President’s Scholarship, making her the first SOTA alumnus to receive this highly prestigious award.<br />
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The presentation concluded with recent events organized by SOTA Library for its users, such as National Library Board librarians showcasing their resources as part of professional development for teaching staff on 6 July 2017, Chinese writer’s sharing session for students by library committee on 4 August 2017, amongst others.<br />
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The presentation sparked off interest and a lively dialogue ensued. Together with Adeline, I led a discussion with our SMU guests on the sharing of best practices in support of teaching and learning needs. One of the many interesting points raised was the feasibility of libraries leveraging more on electronic resources to support information literacy and research needs of its users.<br />
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While SMU and SOTA differ in several aspects such as the age group of students, type of courses offered and so on, we found that the libraries of the 2 institutions share the same commitment to provide a user-centric learning space and support the information needs of our users. Both libraries agreed that there are certainly common areas that we could possibly explore further together that are mutually beneficial. The visit ended with a group photograph at the spiral staircase near the library entrance as a backdrop, as we bade goodbye to each other.<br />
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SOTA Library had received compliments on the visit and our SMU guests thought that it was planned well, such that they had an enjoyable learning experience. The goodwill was reciprocal, and SMU Libraries team had expressed their interest to host the SOTA Library team in the future.<br />
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Article By: Foo Soo Chin (Manager, SOTA Library)<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-10352921889846991502017-07-04T18:53:00.002+08:002017-09-27T09:28:47.026+08:00Regional PD 2017/8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are spoilt for choice this year for Librarian related PD. Please note the following events with opportunities to attend and to present. Please add a comment if you know of any other opportunities to add to these. The list below is in chronological order. For other events and development opportunities in the region <a href="https://silcsing.blogspot.ch/p/regional-pd.html" target="_blank">see this page</a><br />
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For good FREE PD consider attending a <a href="http://www.21c-learning.com/events/location/singapore/" target="_blank">TeachMeet in Singapore</a><br />
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<b>8-10 September 2017 (Hong Kong):</b><br />
IBO, Cat 3: The Role of the Librarian, Hong Kong<br />
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<b>14-16 October 2017 (Hong Kong): </b><br />
IBO, Cat 3: The Role of the Librarian, Hong Kong<br />
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<b>2-4 November 2017 (Shanghai, China):</b><br />
<a href="https://learning2asia.org/" target="_blank">Learning 2.0</a> at Shanghai American School. Of particular interest to librarians is Jeff Utecht speaking on "<i>Honing research skills in the age of falsified news & echo chambers</i>"<br />
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<b>16-18 November 2017 (HCMC, Vietnam):</b><br />
<a href="https://sites.google.com/ais.edu.vn/lksw2017-2018/home" target="_blank">LKSW</a> at American International School Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam. Contact Jennifer Alevy, Coordinator of Library Services, jennifer.alevy@ais.edu.vn for further information<br />
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<b>17-19 January 2018 (Hong Kong):</b><br />
<a href="http://www.21clhk.org/conference-overview/" target="_blank">21st Century Learning</a> Hong Kong will have a library pre-conference and library / information literacy strand with Joyce Valenza as keynote. <a href="http://www.21clhk.org/submit-a-presentation/" target="_blank">Here is the link</a> if you'd like to submit a presentation proposal.<br />
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<b>16-17 February 2018 (Chennai, India):</b><br />
<a href="http://www.ecislibrary2018.com/" target="_blank">ECIS Library 2018</a> in Chennai India. Keynote speakers are Shannon McClintock Miller and John Schumacher (a.k.a Mr. Schu).<br />
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<b>29-31 March 2018 (Bangkok, Thailand):</b><br />
<a href="http://www.earcos.org/etc2018.php" target="_blank">EARCOS Teachers' Conference</a> in Bangkok. Diane Mackenzie and Katie Day will be presenting as will Pernille Ripp (Global Read Aloud).<br />
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<b>20-22 April 2018 (Shenzhen, China):</b><br />
IBO, Cat 3: The role of the librarian, Shenzhen, China<br />
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<b>6-11 May 2018 (Istanbul, Turkey):</b><br />
<a href="http://iasl2018.org/" target="_blank">IASL 2018</a> Istanbul Turkey.<br />
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<b>30 July to 2 August 2018 (Queensland, Australia):</b><br />
<a href="https://www.alia.org.au/events/13403/asia-pacific-library-and-information-conference-2018" target="_blank">Asia-Pacific Library</a> and Information Conference. Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia.<br />
First joint conference of ALIA, Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA), and Library Association of Singapore (LAS)<b> </b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>24-30 August 2018 (KL, Malaysia):</b><br />
<a href="http://2018.ifla.org/" target="_blank">IFLA 84th World Library and Information Congress</a>, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-85344036241846076662017-06-22T12:28:00.007+08:002017-06-22T12:30:18.369+08:00A thank you note from Doreen at Book Reach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-87761509682078374822017-06-07T16:21:00.005+08:002017-06-07T16:22:49.391+08:00Red Dot shortlists for next year! 2017-2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Apologies for the delay, but at least we've managed to do this by early June. Progress!<br />
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I've made a new Red Dot website -- see <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/reddotbookawards20172018">https://sites.google.com/site/reddotbookawards20172018</a></b><br />
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The domain name -- <b><a href="http://www.reddotawards.com/">www.reddotawards.com</a></b> -- hasn't been transferred to the new site yet, but should be working within a few days. (For some reason, mapping a GoDaddy domain name to a Google Site is not an instant thing.)<br />
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I think we've got a good line-up and balance in the "baskets" of each category. Go have a look. Many thanks to the ad-hoc committee members who found time to meet up in the evenings and to read recommendations throughout the process.<br />
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For availability,<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMtpxWVAaU_k4HRw6YQMi80uomOGhEv8xwoYzR_505o/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> see the Google Spreadsheet</a> where we composed the shortlists -- and know that we will be adding other sources to that, e.g., usually Follett put the shortlists in Titlewave and Denise Tan from Closetful of Books will produce an order sheet.<br />
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The Readers Cup Reboot information will also be added to the Red Dot website in the near future.<br />
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Happy summer reading!</div>
Katie Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460127537263147529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-25609095122927420982017-05-08T17:57:00.004+08:002017-05-08T18:02:08.362+08:00Winners! Red Dots 2016-2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Students from 11 different international schools in our network cast almost 8,000 votes in total in the four categories of the 2016-2017 <a href="http://www.reddotawards.com/" target="_blank">Red Dot Book Awards</a>.<br />
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The Singapore-wide 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in the four categories are:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Early Years:</b></span>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">1st place: <b> Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep!<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">2nd place: <b>Aunt Amelia</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">3rd place: <b>All the Lost Things</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">1st place: <b>The Story of Diva and Flea</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">2nd place: <b>Blamehounds</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">3rd place: <b>Freddie Mole Lion Tamer</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">1st place: <b>The Thing About Jellyfish</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">2nd place: <b>Secrets of Singapore</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">3rd place: <b>Confessions of an Imaginary Friend</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mature Readers:</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">1st place: <b>Nimona</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">2nd place: <b>Boys Don't Knit</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">3rd place: <b>Illuminae</b></span></li>
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Note that each school also has its own winners -- and participating schools are given those results to advertise as they will.<br />
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We're close to announcing the shortlists for next year's eight books in each of the four categories..... Watch this space....</div>
Katie Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460127537263147529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-5882831075829864472017-04-25T11:18:00.001+08:002017-04-25T11:18:41.202+08:00Kids' Lit Quiz - now open to International Schools<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Until last year, (when we questioned the practice), the</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="il" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kids</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="il" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lit</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="il" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Quiz</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">™ (KLQ) was only open to MOE schools. They have now opened it to all schools in Singapore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The <span class="il">Quiz</span> is based on any book (children and young adult) – no set list is given. More information on the international KLQ and sample <span class="il">quiz</span> questions can be found here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.kidslitquiz.com/home.php&source=gmail&ust=1493175863759000&usg=AFQjCNH3qfW2P5rZo0u9B8KLOjDtLhsF7A" href="http://www.kidslitquiz.com/home.php" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.kidslitquiz.com/<wbr></wbr>home.php</a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There’s a host of fringe activities for your students to participate in such as Book Out! at the public libraries and online <span class="il">quizzes</span> on discoveReads – you can find more details <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nlb.gov.sg/discovereads/&source=gmail&ust=1493175863759000&usg=AFQjCNHhgNr5ce7_6EGheJYn5Mbg5NJJ_w" href="http://www.nlb.gov.sg/discovereads/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #1f497d;">.</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-88215329432735387472017-04-23T18:20:00.004+08:002017-04-25T13:01:27.318+08:00AFCC 2017 - 10% off <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://afcc.com.sg/assets/2017/img/afcc-logo@2x.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://afcc.com.sg/assets/2017/img/afcc-logo@2x.png" width="264" /></a><b>Date: </b>17 — 21 MAY 2017<br />
<b>Venue:</b> NLB, Victoria Road Singapore<br />
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The <a href="https://afcc.com.sg/2017" target="_blank">Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC)</a> is an annual festival in Singapore that celebrates and promotes the creation and appreciation of children’s books and content, with a focus on Asian themes. Indonesia is the country of focus for this year. ISLN members are offered a 10% discount.<br />
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This year the following ISLN members are taking part:<br />
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<b>Ben Farr </b><br />
20 May, 9am – 10am.<br />
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<i><b>[PANEL] Literacy Bites: Practices in Schools</b></i><br />
Looking at four schools, St James’ Church Kindergarten, the Green School Bali, Sarada Kindergarten and Kumon, discuss about literacy practices adopted by their schools and efforts to help children improve their grasp of languages.<br />
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<b>Katie Day</b><br />
17 May, 4.45pm – 6.00pm: <br />
<i><b>Authors Discussion: Who Gets to Write Asian Stories?</b></i><br />
Speakers: Wai Chim, Paolo Fabregas, Holly Thompson, Heidi Shamsuddin<br />
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21 May, 11.15am – 12.15pm: <br />
<i><b>Books from Around the World that Build Social and Emotional Learning</b></i> (SEL) Bridges (and Why Teachers Ought to Know Them) --<br />
Myra Garces-Bacsal, Sarinajit Kaur<br />
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<b>Sarah Mounsey</b><br />
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<a href="https://afcc.com.sg/2017/speakers#letter-e" target="_blank">Elaine Fong</a><br />
21 May 2017 (Sun) 11:15am – 12:15pm<br />
<i><b>A Mammoth Task: Encouraging Reading in the Digital Age</b></i><br />
Elaine will go over the key points she uses as a teacher librarian to encourage reading among students. She will also highlight the pitfalls and challenges that parents should be aware of. This session will provide anecdotal and research based strategies on how to encourage reading.<br />
Part of Parents Forum, Preschool & Primary Teachers Congress<br />
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<a href="https://afcc.com.sg/2017/speakers#letter-n" target="_blank">Nadine Bailey</a><br />
20 May 2017 (Sat) 9:00am – 10:00am<br />
<i><b>Blokes with Books: Can Social Belonging Impact on Reading Motivation and Skill for Young Boys?</b></i><br />
For the past 1 and a half years, something special has been happening at a school campus in Singapore. Boys aged 8-12 are arguing about whose turn it is to read a desired book and rushing to join a book club that’s so full, it’s not taking any more members. How did this happen? More importantly, how can you recreate the magic in your school? Nadine will spill the beans at this session.<br />
Part of Preschool & Primary Teachers Congress<br />
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18 May 2017 (Thu) 10:30am – 11:30am<br />
<i><b>[PANEL] Books Teachers Wish Authors Would Write</b></i><br />
Rilla Melati (Director, Creative Content Development, Mini Monsters Limited), Myra Garces-Bacsal (Educator, Reviewer, Blogger), Nadine Bailey (Teacher librarian, Canadian International School)<br />
Creators can step into the shoes of a teacher for one hour and learn what makes a book a treasured find. From beautiful illustrations to didactic language, speakers discuss their views on relevant and useful books children need and love.<br />
Part of Writers & Illustrators Conference<br />
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You may also be interested in the talk of <a href="https://afcc.com.sg/2017/speakers#letter-m" target="_blank">Dr. Myra Bacsal</a> Books from Around the World that Build Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Bridges (And Why Teachers Ought to Know Them)<br />
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There is a Writers and Illustrators conference, Teachers' Congress, Parents' Forum and Cross Platform Summit - so let your teachers and parents know too.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-59142226858875904382017-04-23T12:28:00.001+08:002017-04-23T13:28:01.124+08:00International Storytelling Festival<a href="https://storyfestsg.com/assets/2017/img/theme@2x.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://storyfestsg.com/assets/2017/img/theme@2x.png" width="288" /></a><a href="https://storyfestsg.com/?utm_source=The+Storytelling+Centre&utm_campaign=46f299aa5d-StoryFest+General+EDM&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6b2bb7a618-46f299aa5d-45050039&mc_cid=46f299aa5d&mc_eid=eda8d791ad">StoryFest: International Storytelling Festival </a>Singapore showcases the best of storytelling from Singapore and around the world.<br />
Dates: Fri – Sun, 2 – 4 June 2017<br />
Venue: The Arts House, Singapore<br />
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Presented by The Storytelling Centre Limited and The Arts House, the festival features a variety of performances including family and adult audience shows, workshops and local commissions – a Young Storytellers Mentorship Project Graduation Showcase and Stories for Change showcasing key storytelling and spoken word organisations. 2017 will mark our first edition.<br />
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It may be worth while for schools to contact the organisers to see if there are opportunities to get visiting storytellers to come to their schools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-54735923559367839842017-03-31T14:20:00.000+08:002017-04-19T18:37:09.849+08:00Friday, May 5th: ISLN Celebration Party at the NLB Pod.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A reminder that we are finalizing the numbers for our End-of-Year ISLN Party on starting at 6:30pm, Friday, May 5, 2017, in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pod-National-Library/480051632013864" target="_blank">The Pod</a> at the top of the National Library Board (NLB) main building, 100 Victoria St.<br />
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This is a farewell to three key members -- Katie Day (UWCSEA East), Jacqui Makselon (Tanglin) and Ben Farr (Tanglin).<br />
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Two were on the first Hands on Literacy committee that was behind the substantial funds that we hold, and, all of whom were founding members of ISLN.<br />
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We also have several members who have or will turn 60 in the past year (Pam Males, Graham Grant, Jane Hayes, Katie Day, Pat Chandler, and Barb Reid).<br />
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These seem like great reasons to have a fabulous end-of-year event.<br />
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Member schools are invited to bring any or all of their current library staff for free and non-members are welcome to attend for the small amount of $10. NB: You must renew your membership before the AGM on April 20th in order to qualify for the free attendance of you and your library staff.<br />
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You are also welcome to invite other guests who you feel have been supporters of ISLN or supporters of those people whose contribution we are celebrating. See the recent email to the ISS-LN Google Group with instructions about how to suggest people to be invited and to confirm you and your library staff's attendance.<br />
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Attendance will be limited to the first 150 people.</div>
Katie Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460127537263147529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-77824216258805136082017-03-17T08:42:00.000+08:002017-03-17T08:42:25.907+08:00Red Dot Voting -- has begun!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, it's time again for the winners to be determined.....<br />
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March 1 through May 1 is the voting season -- for each school to decide which book in each of the four Red Dot reader categories is the winner for them..... and then we tally all the votes to say which book wins for all of Singapore.<br />
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As the Red Dots are a "children's choice" award (after we librarians have come up with the shortlists), <b>only students may vote</b>. And the rule is <b>one vote per student per category</b> (Early Years, Younger Readers, Older Readers, and Mature Readers). <br />
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There is no minimum number of books that must be read (though we assume you have read at least two - as voting implies comparison between two or more things.)<br />
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Simply one vote per student per category.<br />
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There is an online Google Form for voting on the Red Dot website: <a href="http://www.reddotawards.com/voting">http://www.reddotawards.com/voting</a><br />
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Or you can direct your students to the voting form via this short URL: <b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/reddotvoting2017" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153) !important;">bit.ly/reddotvoting2017</a></b><br />
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If you collect votes in your school in some other way, there is a form for librarians to tell us what your local votes are (so they can be included in the country-wide tally): <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/iiM97QPqgkOyjHlo1">https://goo.gl/forms/iiM97QPqgkOyjHlo1</a><br />
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One week later the Singapore-wide winners will be announced on the Red Dot website.<br />
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There is a Voting Poster you can use to advertise the event:<br />
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To download a size suitable for A3 printouts, go to the Red Dot Voting webpage: <a href="http://www.reddotawards.com/voting">http://www.reddotawards.com/voting</a><br />
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Katie Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460127537263147529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-14446706371785440182017-03-07T08:25:00.001+08:002017-03-31T17:50:59.438+08:00News about EPIC!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">My contacts are MaryAnn (Support) & Tahleen (Sales & Marketing),</span><span style="font-size: 16.5926px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">these are the issues we have resolved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">1. Concerns over international schools signing up when they state that it is only available to educators in USA, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and NZ.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Can I tell my Network to write to Epic if they want to use the product and request an exception for access? That way you can track who wants it and why. My networks are International School Library Connection and International Schools Libraries Network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">If they wrote introducing themselves and requesting access you would know that they are genuine users who want to respect your terms and conditions and promote personal subscriptions- most of these people are American, Canadian, Australian or British teachers working in schools that serve students of those nationalities and delivering one of those countries curriculums.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">When an educator signs out of the app, students will not have access to the app until their teacher signs back into the app. All the student profiles are contained within the educator account and students would need to access their profile through the educator account. Students have no way of accessing their profile unless the educator is already signed or logged into the Epic! app. If a student is at home attempting to log into their profile without the educator being signed in on their device, the student would not be able to access their student profile.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">”</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Therefore, as long as the devices are signed out of the teachers account before leaving school, students can use EPIC on their 1:1 devices. This would mean that the teacher would need to sign everyone in (we do this - the kids put in the teacher</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "ms 明朝"; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">s email and we quickly scoot around putting in the password) or the teacher could change the password after they had signed out so that each time they use it they input a different password.</span></div>
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International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-70321771582784222812017-02-28T12:12:00.001+08:002017-03-01T15:29:05.628+08:00Copyright Issues In Libraries, Education and Open Access. - PD at SMU on 25 January<div style="font-family: gotham, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">
Pam, Safirna, Mathew (UWCSEA Dover) and & I attended this session on copyright at SMU. These are some notes that I took at the time. Please feel free to ask one of us for more details.</div>
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Derek discussed changes in in copyright and shared some great resources.</div>
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<a href="http://www.oel.edu.au/" target="_blank">The OEL toolkit</a> is a useful resource for checking how you can use resources</div>
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The continuum of openness: <a href="http://www.oel.edu.au/resources/uploads/2016/04/OEL-Continuum-of-Openness_web.pdf" style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">http://www.oel.edu.au/resources/uploads/2016/04/OEL-Continuum-of-Openness_web.pdf</a></div>
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Did you know that all <a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications" target="_blank">ANU press</a> books are free and open access? They even come with MARC records. He recommended <a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/what-if-we-could-reimagine-copyright" target="_blank">What if we could re-imagine copyright</a>? by Rebecca Giblin</div>
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We may all be aware that copyright belongs to employers, but did you know that an email thread infringes copyright ? Australia has no fair use policy which is a contributing factor in the average Australian breaking copyright about 80 times a day!</div>
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Copyright is Singapore is for the life of the creator plus 70 years. Singapore has a fair use policy. </div>
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Paul answered specific questions from the audience. Here are some interesting points to note</div>
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<li>Students copyright in Singapore belongs to institution</li>
<li>You can stream from a YouTube link even if it is pirated - it is YouTubes responsibility to monitor illegal uploads</li>
<li>Using a VPN is not illegal but might breach terms of use of the site you are accessing</li>
<li>Ted video by YouTube is copyright </li>
<li>Malaysia allows YouTube downloads </li>
<li>Australian students can use Australian content (i.e Clickview exchange / ABC videos)</li>
<li>A video of a lesson that includes a YouTube clip shown on the intranet is okay in not for profit institutions</li>
<li>If you search in google slides you only get copyright free images</li>
<li>Hyperlinks are often sufficient attribution</li>
<li>Images on websites should include a link</li>
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How long do you wait for an email for permission? As long as it takes, but go ahead and use it if the owner is not likely to lose by your use.</div>
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Adding a date of access to your attribution allows use of <a href="https://archive.org/web/" target="_blank">Internet wayback</a></div>
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Whether you are profit or not-for-profit makes a huge difference</div>
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For profit schools do not benefit from any exceptions </div>
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If you make a decision based on fair-dealing you should inform your management</div>
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Record keeping important </div>
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Paul tells his students to use Zotero for attribution- it is just good manners and required in academia.</div>
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FYI - Ngee Ann Poly pays $7 per head to <a href="http://www.class-singapore.com/" target="_blank">CLASS</a>. All institutions required to subscribe<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6ATMMN0SILldnlVZzUzdFZqQTA" target="_blank">Here is Paul's copyright flow chart </a>to help you check if you are within the law<br />
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International School Libraries Network (ISLN) of Singaporehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747494877212442587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-54323693008939195812017-02-01T11:05:00.000+08:002017-02-01T11:10:57.176+08:00JAW for library staff in KL in December -- a report back from GESS library officers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When we first heard about <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8lDnhdimWh0fTgSaJgFbYI2ErjqWAHa0Mv4633kaDdypCxw/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">JAW 2016 @ISKL</a>, we knew we it would be a great opportunity for us to meet people who shares the same profession as us but comes from a different country. We quickly signed up for the workshop and before we know, it was time for us to pack our bags for this trip.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We made our way to ISKL on the morning of 20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dec 2016. The session started with the groups introducing themselves. The first presentation was on the topic of ‘Readers Advisory’ done by Azlin Library Assistant from ISKL followed by groups discussions on how ‘Readers Advisory’ are handled at the different schools. The different sources librarians use to provide book recommendations for our readers. In between breaks and the different sessions we had throughout the day, participants were encouraged to try quizzes and participate in ice breaking games which promises great prizes for winners. One of the most interesting activity was the part where we had to guess the total no. of pages from a book tower that was on display! Both Rosnita and myself were happy to walk away as winners for two of the games – Unlock the Ring and Kahoot game. Another good topic was on Weeding where we shared amongst ourselves some best practices used to give the book that got weeded another chance to ‘live’ and we discovered a few schools there donate their books to refugee centers. </span></div>
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Katie Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460127537263147529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399851611945049306.post-38223760582932348722017-01-17T13:41:00.002+08:002017-01-17T13:49:27.844+08:00LKSW 2017 & Speed Dating Picture Books from around the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A reminder that Barb and I are closing registration at the end
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2017, being held at UWCSEA East. Go to <a href="http://research.uwcsea.edu.sg/">http://research.uwcsea.edu.sg/</a><wbr></wbr><a href="http://research.uwcsea.edu.sg/lksw2017" target="_blank">lksw2017</a> for registration details.</div>
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Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) bookshelf" -- which will be similar to
the talk on her ongoing <a href="https://www.moe.gov.sg/education/programmes/social-and-emotional-learning" target="_blank">"Social-Emotional Learning Project"</a> which she gave at Tanglin last November. For those of you who enjoyed that, it will be another chance to look at many of the picture books she
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You can browse Myra's collection online as her group has cataloged all the picture books using LibraryThing. See her lists and tags here: <a href="https://www.librarything.com/catalog/GatheringBooks/allcollections">https://www.librarything.com/catalog/GatheringBooks/allcollections</a></div>
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