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…
Report back: Kevin Hennah’s Cultural Weeding Workshop in KL, Jan 23, 2015
Kevin Hennah did a workshop on “Cultural Weeding” at ISKL in Malaysia Friday, Jan 23. Philip Moon, the high school librarian at OFS, attended and has kindly shared his report…
New Year update – looking back and forward
If you missed the Dec 10th talk at AISS by Prof. Scott Nicholson on gamification in libraries (see announcement here), then you can get a very good idea of what…
Come learn about Gaming & Gamification in Libraries – from professor Scott Nicholson
We have a short-notice opportunity coming up on Wed, Dec. 10th to hear about the possibilities of gaming in libraries and the gamification of information literacy. Scott Nicholson is an…
Red Dot selected books – looking back and looking forward
I just did a personal blog post on the Red Dot books, trying to highlight ones we considered, but didn’t ultimately choose, because of the devil of the balancing act…
Red Dot 2014-2015 Posters & Stickers ready
Thanks to my very creative library assistant, Ernie, here are some posters for the four categories of the Red Dots, plus some shortlist stickers. Go to the Red Dot Promotional…
There’s a good choice of professional development coming up….
Our Regional PD page just got some updates. 21st Century Learning Conference 2014: Hong Kong, Dec 11-13 The School Librarian Connection 2014: Hong Kong – Renaissance College, Fri/Sat Nov 21-22…
Red Dot 2014-2015 – shortlists announced — as well as process changes….
UPDATE: Website is ready — see reddotawards.com At last! After a lot of reading and online discussion, we have some shortlists. Here are the lists as they stand now —…