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Book Week 2006 - Book Now  (19-26th August)

Shortlist 2006 - Children's Book Council of Australia

Library Displays - from the Australian School Library Association (ASLA(NSW)) website

Ipswich District Teacher Librarian's Network - many ideas and voting poll

Kerri Ciccolani's Book Now compilation - with links to activities

Sharon McGuinness' Book Week page - vote casting, activities and teachers' notes

CMIS Focus on Fiction - Dept of Ed and Training, Govt of Western Australia

Book Week Blog - a chance to enter discussion with students all around Australia about the shortlisted books for 2006

Jigzone - online jigsaw puzzles of book covers by Jenny Stubbs

Pre Book Week Extravaganza - an ALIA initiative with ideas for activities, artwork and displays

Literature and Storytelling

My girragundji - allen and unwin teaching notes ; Stage 3 book rap on DET libraries page ; bells shakespeare company teaching kit ; The Arts Centre teaching notes (with a wordfind)

Premier's Reading Challenge                     Nine plots    

School Magazine - information about the DET produced school magazines and teaching units

Booklists on various topics - Australian School Library Assoc. New South Wales - ASLA(NSW)

Booklists - from a Colorado library in the US       

KOALA Awards - Kids' own Australian Literature Awards Inc.

Teachers' notes from Penguin website for various fiction titles

Children's literature activities - an American slant but includes many familiar titles

Author / Illustrator sites

Jackie French    Steven Herrick (poet)       Libby Hathorn         Judy Blume's home base

Mem Fox            Sally Odgers (author)        Andy Griffiths          Colin Thompson

E.B.White - author of Charlotte's web and Stuart Little     An interview with Eric Carle - author of Very hungry caterpillar                    

Lateral Learning - author visits                          

A collection of Australian author biographies - Palmerston P.S. website   

Booked out - another author/illustrator booking company       

Various authors and illustrators worldwide - includes Dr Seuss       

Dr Seuss activities - suitable for lower primary        Australian authors and illustrators

Australian authors and illustrators for young people - good stuff here for Boori Pryor

Children's Book Council - Australian authors and illustrators links

CMIS Focus on Fiction - page of Australian and other authors and illustrators

An interview with Boori Pryor and Meme McDonald

Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor

A collection of sites - to specific authors and to collections of authors

The Style File - various illustrators organised alphabetically    

Educational sites

EdNA school calendar for 2006

EdNA online - Australia's gateway to resources and services for education and training, search here for a plethora of resources.

oz-Teachernet homepage - book raps, travel buddies, other useful projects. Subscribe to an emailing list of interest.

Book raps on the det website - book discussions via email with other participating schools

ozprojects - online projects for teachers and their students

primary school - sites, lessons, resources online

Activated - an online educational resource for teachers in the ACT

Professional sites

Department of Education and Training

Curriculum planning, programming, assessing and reporting - find the COGs (Connected outcomes groups) here, logon required

centre for learning innovation - (cli) part of the NSW DET, aiming to provide "excellence in learning resource production, and leadership in the strategic use of technology in education and training".

TaLe - Teaching and learning exchange produced by cli for the sharing of learning resources, advice and ideas to support learning from the DET

Impact of school libraries on student achievement : a review of the research - on the ASLA website

standards of professional excellence for teacher-librarians - also on ASLA (Australian School Library Assoc.) website

the five domains of the library - as set out in Learning for the future (2nd ed)

Sydney Region website - follow showcase link for some useful technology resources

Board of Studies - syllabusi and other useful resources online

Curriculum Corporation - for resources and support material

EdNA - Teacher-Librarian's posting page

Educational web forums - discussions about online learning

The Learning Place - Education Queensland

Commonwealth government education portal - Commonwealth Government information and services concerning all aspects and levels of education in Australia

Values Education Initiative - produced by Federal government

Values in public schools - a NSW government initiative

Technology in Education

  Podcasts in education - find out more                  Edsoft - supplier of educational software

  Wikis in the classroom - find out more                    New Horizons - supplier of educational software

centre for learning innovation - part of the NSW DET, aiming to provide "excellence in learning resource production, and leadership in the strategic use of technology in education and training".

netalert cybersafe schools - internet safety education, initiative of federal government

from now on - the educational technology journal by Jamie McKenzie

teaching using the Internet - a bank of ideas

Blue Web'n - a library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web

Library Management

Sue Lacey's TL Tips and Tricks page

New South Wales Teacher-Librarian Network

SCiS - standards for cataloguing and data entry

Selection Criteria - from the CMIS website, outlines selection criteria for different formats of resources

Weeding criteria - again from the CMIS website

Average price of books - on CMIS website

Ipswich District Teacher-Librarian Network - on the Learning Places site, Education Queensland

School libraries and information literacy - on the DET website

Magazines for kids - a listing of many that are available with prices and subscription information

Biblioz - purchase that hard to find book online, Australian version of Amazon.com

Core Collection List - on the DET intranet

National School Library Service - online bibliographic information and ordering

KOALA books - publisher of children's books for under 10's

Tape services SA - cheap taping service for ABC programs

Enhance TV - a web resource for Australian educators, providing you with information on educational TV programs and films, as well as free study guides and feature articles to help you teach using television in the classroom.

ABC Program sales - ABC shop online catalogue

Syba Signs - catalogue, price list and online ordering

Curriculum Corporation - Learning resources catalogue

Library Clipart - clips pertaining to library

Copyright

Australian Copyright Council - online information centre

copyright aware  - government guidelines available as excellent printouts, powerpoint presentations and banners

copyright in the classroom - from WA CMIS website, thorough and comprehensive

screenrights - copyright issues relating to film and TV

you quote it, you note it - an interactive slideshow teaching about plagiarism

copyright - a fun way to learn about it

Reference material

Online maps - Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection

news interactive - online news headlines from news limited

Sydney for Kids - excursion and activity ideas around Sydney

abc tv online activities - activities to supplement abc educational programs

Collections Australia Network - a network of Australian collecting agencies, formerly Australian Museum Online (Amonline)

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology

online dictionary and thesaurus - scroll down for meanings from different sources, not all features available without subscription

Sensis

Library Links - on the StudentNet website, a plethora of reference material