Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Librarians' Knowledge Sharing Workshop Brunei February 2014





Last week I was fortunate in attending the second annual Librarians’ Knowledge Sharing Workshop at JIS in Brunei with my colleague Meg Johnson from our Lower Secondary library. It was a great opportunity to network and work with Teacher Librarians from all over Asia. The smaller size of the event enabled delegates to get to know each other well and extend our Personal Learning Networks for future contact.
 In fact it was networking through Twitter that brought Lyn Hay to the event as keynote speaker. In her presentation Anatomy of an iCentre, Lyn challenged the group to consider new modes of working and new learning space designs for libraries. Inspired by the Apple store model for service and expert support , Lyn proposed the iCentre as a model for collaboration, Library, ICT and classroom teachers working together towards common goals in a shared space.
21C learning in a digital environment


Developing students as connected learners


Partnerships not buildings





            An innovative approach to programming was the use of two “slam” sessions with short 5 minute presentations on a theme followed by group discussion: Virtual library spaces and What’s hot? Technology for libraries. These proved to be highly engaging and interactive sessions. Other presentations included Library design/the physical space; Engaging readers; Library management systems. All very valuable and informative.

Lyn’s plenary session Guided inquiry- an instructional framework for inquiry learning resonated greatly with me and I made many connections with my own presentation.
                My own presentation was on our process for developing information literacy resources  for the Australian International School: Information Literacy Skills Scope and Sequence Preschool-5; Literature Skills Scope and Sequence Preschool-5 for the Elementary School in 2012; and 21C skills @ AIS – An Information  Fluency Framework for secondary students in 2013. These documents are supported by a library website and can be accessed at http://libguides.ais.com.sg/research
               
          Takeaways – action plan. PD like this is always a shot-in-the-arm for me, a boost to enthusiasm, a raising of awareness of how we can work differently and strive to be better.
   
 Seeing a presentation of a graphic interface for one library’s databases website has me planning to do more with our list.

·                  Imovies on ipads – lend the ipad. We have a library itunes account working well for mp3 audiobooks lent to students on ipod shuffle. Movies are a natural extension of that – who wants to buy dvds? (our new Macbook Air don’t have a dvd player). Now for the library sets of ipads…..
·         Extend our audiobook collection to the Red Dot Books.
·         Meg and I talked about undertaking an evidence-based project for our Teacher Inquiry Group focus this year. There was an enthusiastic response from the others in our library teaching team when we shared that idea yesterday. What better way to demonstrate the impact of the libraries on student learning.


Conference organisers Karli Downey and Angela Mann of JIW, with support from Barb Reid (Alice Smith School Kuala Lumpur) are to be congratulated for a stimulating and rewarding 2 days. It was a privilege and a pleasure to participate.

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