With over 5,000 votes cast in total and 10 schools participating, the overall Singapore winners of the 2014-2015 Red Dot Book Award are: Early Years: 1st place: Going Places 2nd…
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Looking ahead to the 2015-2016 Red Dot Books
As you know, this year we are going to produce our Red Dot shortlist by early June — rather than early November. Please recommend books to us using the form…
Post-PD Summary: Librarians’ Lunch & TeachUp 2015 @ UWC East
Last Saturday, March 14, there was a morning and an afternoon opportunity for professional development. The inaugural TeachUp event, held at UWCSEA East, included two sessions by librarians. TeachUp 2015…
Readers’ Cup — all you need to know
Click here for a Google Doc outlining all the information about the Readers’ Cup competition, being held on May 21st this year — at the Singapore American School. As we’re…
Update: Leisurely Lunch in the Library — focusing on three kinds of Literacy – March 14th
Update on this Saturday afternoon’s professional development opportunity at the UWCSEA East campus (12:30 – 3:00 in the Secondary Library — after the TeachUp event). This is the programme line-up:…
A leisurely librarians’ luncheon – with professional learning – Sat. March 14
You may have heard from your school PD person about TeachUp 2015 — a new mini conference here in Singapore. It’s an initiative of the international school PD network and…
Red Dot 20140-2015 Voting begins…. Ends on May 1
The voting begins today — and will continue until May 1st. The winners will be announced Monday, May 4th. Click here for the live voting form:http://bit.ly/reddot2015 Please share the link…
Changes to the Red Dot voting and Readers Cup this year
This year voting for the Red Dot books is for 2 months, not one week. The online form will be on the website — reddotawards.com — starting from March 1st…
Report back: Information Literacy Seminar 2015 at SMU, Jan. 29
Thursday, Jan 29 — from 2:00 to 5:30pm — Singapore Management University (SMU) hosted a seminar on information literacy entitled, We are teaching but are they learning? ISLN was well…
Report back: the iCreate Conference 2015 at SAS Fri Jan 23 – Sat Jan 24
The Singapore American School librarians hosted a next-generation version of their annual children’s literature conference — now called iCreate (#iCreate2015). In addition to bringing in four award-winning authors/illustrators from the…