October 1st is the deadline for papers for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) which next year has a focus on Japan — though not every presentation has to be about Japan — it’s just that they do a country focus each year. Guidelines — for either the Writers and Illustrators Conference or the…
Category: professional development
Key learning points of the IB librarians workshop held Aug15
I had the opportunity to participate in the IB Category 1 Diploma Programme (Librarians) workshop that was held in UWCSEA East in Singapore from 21 to 23 August 2015. The facilitator was Dianne McKenzie, who is a library consultant and teacher trainer based in Hong Kong. 15 participants (from Singapore, Japan, China, Vietnam, Canada, UK,…
Welcoming Social – Fri Aug 21…. and a new online sharing space for us TLs in Asia….
There’s a new Facebook group for teacher-librarians working in Asia, started by Dianne McKenzie, called Asia School Library Connection. I would encourage you all to join. I think it’s a nice complement to the ECIS iSkoodle one. Dianne, as many of you know, has been in Hong Kong for many years, most recently at Discovery…
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 – link to shared folder of resources— Kim Beeman (Shrewsbury Int’l School, Bangkok) & Karen Blumberg – DIY PD— Katie Day & Barb Reid –…
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: 1st Conversation: Digital Literacy: Resources for ethically locating, gathering, and using digital media, as well as standards, literacies and citizenship — led by Kim Beeman…
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 the event will rotate throughout the different schools. UWC East in Tampines is hosting the first one. It’s on Saturday morning, March 14th, 9am-12pm, cheap…
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 represented, with Foo Soo Chin from the Singapore School of the Arts discussing “The art of thinking – in the brave new world of information…
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 US, who each did keynotes and break-out sessions, they added extra speakers on the Friday evening and workshops on the Saturday afternoon, focusing on 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 back to his principal with us. Click here to read Philip Moon’s report. Three others from our network also attended: Pam Males from UWCSEA Dover;…
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 was covered, with links to all the resources Scott mentioned, on Nadine Bailey’s blog — read her summary here. Many thanks, Nadine! There are several…