Library Services, Queensland Department of Education and Training

Education in the news for week ending 16 February 2012

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Education in the news is an alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains a weekly summary of state, regional and international news coverage of education, and issues impacting on education.

Inclusive education and disability update as at 14 February 2012

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Inclusive education and disability update is an alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains current issues and trends in inclusive education and education of students with disabilities.

Education in the news for week ending 9 February 2012

Technologies in the classroom as at 9 February 2012

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Technologies in the classroom is a monthly alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains the latest issues and trends in technologies for teaching and learning.

Early childhood update as at 3 February 2012

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Early childhood update is an alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains current issues and trends in preschool and early childhood education.

Education in the news for week ending 2 February 2012

Latest curriculum resources

Fromelles: Australia's bloodiest day at war
by Carole Wilkinson
The story of the battle of Fromelles and the soldiers, many of them underage boys who took part in it, is told with compassion and respect.

My country
by Ezekiel Kwaymullina & Sally Morgan
In a series of statements a young girl says how she immerses herself in her 'country'.

Being here
by Barry Jonsberg
An elderly lady, Leah, shares the story of her childhood.

Ben & Duck
by Sara Acton
Ben is pursued by a greedy duck a very big greedy duck.

New classroom resource lists

Select and request resources from our latest lists:

About me Lower primary
Starting school Lower primary
First fleet Middle to upper primary

Alternatvely, you can search and make your own selections from the Library Services catalogue.

Leadership and management update as at 1 February 2012

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Leadership and management update is an alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains current issues and trends in leadership, management, accountability, and public administration.

Education in the news for week ending 26 January 2012

Updated professional topic: Gifted and talented education

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A list of professional resources on the topic of gifted and talented education. All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.

Updated professional topic: Transition education for students with disabilities

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A list of professional resources on the topic of transition education for students with disabilities. All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.

Education in the news for week ending 8 December 2011

Leadership and management update as at 5 December 2011

Updated professional topic: Early childhood special education

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A list of professional resources on the topic of early childhood special education. All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.

Updated professional topic: Child and adolescent depression

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A list of professional resources on the topic of child and adolescent depression. All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.

Library Services opening hours over Christmas holiday period

Library Services, including TESOL Library, will be closing on Friday 16th December 2011 and will reopen on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.
Contact us during opening hours on 3421 6511 or email Library Services.

Staff of Library Services wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to supporting your resource and information needs in 2012.

New journal titles as at 5 December 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Early childhood update as at 2 December 2011

Education in the news for week ending 1 December 2011

Online Poetry Competition 2011 winners announced

Library Services is pleased to announce the winners for the Online Poetry Competition 2011. Congratulations for all of the fantastic entries. Below are the winners. Prizes and certificates will be sent out very shortly. Some entries will also be receiving 'Highly Commended' certificates.

Lower Primary: Prep-Year 3 - Lucy O - Ironside State School (3E)
Middle Primary: Years 4-5 - Jarrah L - Mt Nebo State School (4)
Upper Primary: Years 6-7 - Travis C - Stanwell State School (4-7W)
Secondary: Years 8-9 - Jane L - Mackay North State High School (9F1)

Latest curriculum resources

Rose on wheels
by Sherryl Clark (2011)
It is 1900 and Rose feels that Aunt Alice is the only person who understands her wish to go to a real school instead of lessons in the stuffy schoolroom at home.

Marmaduke duck and the marmalade jam
by Juliette MacIver (2011)
This story, told in verse, follows a duck who uses some grapefruit to produce marmalade. His tasty jam attracts interest and soon Marmaduke is being trailed by an army of ducks.

Can we save the Tiger?
by Martin Jenkins (2011)
While concentrating on the plight of the tiger, other endangered animals are included in this striking and empathic picture book.

The bushwalk
by Sandra Kendell (2011)
The bushwalk is a story to encourage children to explore whatever natural environment may be accessible to them, a reserve, a park or their own backyard.

Education in the news for week ending 24 November 2011

Online professional development

Looking for online professional development for the January pupil free days? Let us take you on a guided tour of the free Library services and resources on offer through web conferencing on OneChannel. There will be three sessions offered, so book into the 30 minute session of your choice or join all three. The link for this session will be provided shortly on the Library Learning Community and through OneChannel on the calendar. Navigate to 19 and 20 January 2012 on the calendar for details.

Free Workshop: Creating Multimodal Texts

This free workshop is for all Education Queensland teachers and is back by 'popular demand'. The national curriculum (ACARA) for English includes the investigation and production of multimodal texts. This workshop will explore strategies, enhanced by the use of digital technologies, that can be used with students to help them develop literacy skills in creative and engaging ways. Participants will need to bring their CFT laptop, digital camera and a USB flash drive. Details are available on the Library Learning Community.

New classroom resource lists

Select and request resources from our latest lists:

Sustainability Lower primary
Sustainability Middle to upper primary
Sustainability Secondary

Alternatvely, you can search and make your own selections from theLibrary Services catalogue.

Tell it digitally Competition 2011 winners announced

Library Services is pleased to announce the winners for the 2011 competition who will receive a set of three iPod Touches:
Years 4-7: Rochedale State School
Years 8-9: Caboolture State High School.
Certificates will soon be coming for each school and class who uploaded an entry.

New journal titles as at 21 November 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Education in the news for week ending 17 November 2011

Inclusive education and disability update as at 14 November 2011

Technologies in the classroom as at 10 November 2011

Education in the news for week ending 10 November 2011

New journal titles as at 7 November 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Early childhood update as at 4 November 2011

Education in the news for week ending 3 November 2011

Leadership and management update as at 1 November 2011

Latest curriculum resources

Scaly-tailed possum and echnida
by Cathy Goonack (2010)
This engaging picture book tells the traditional dreaming story of how the possum got its scaly tail and the echidna got its spikes.

Pippa the perfect flowergirl
by Julie Nickerson (2011)
Pippa is going to be the flowergirl at her aunt's wedding. And she wants everything to be perfectly perfect!

Queen Victoria's underpants
by Jackie French (2010)
Queen Victoria was empress of half the world. She owned palaces and precious jewels and ruled great armies, but she did not have underpants.

Barry
by Colin Thompson (2011)
Barry is running his 'empire' from the dark dustiness of the back of a couch, his only companions a lost red lipstick and some mice. An unusual contribution to the climate debate.

Resources to support the national curriculum

The library is developing resource lists to support the national curriculum. These will be made available soon on the library website and on the library catalogue homepage.

New classroom resource lists

Select and request resources from our latest lists:

Books for boys - Middle to upper primary
Books for boys - Secondary
Christmas - Lower primary
Christmas - Middle to upper primary
Christmas - Secondary.

Alternatvely, you can search and make your own selections from the catalogue

Education in the news for week ending 27 October 2011

Online Poetry Competition 2011

Students are invited to write a haiku poem. The theme of the poem is open allowing it to be integrated into any subject area. The poem must be submitted in text form into the competition edStudio in Learning Place.

The competition commences on Monday 17 October 2011 and closes at 5.00 pm on Friday 18 November 2011. Registrations open on Monday 17 October 2011 and will close on Friday 4 November 2011.

More information about the Online Poetry Competition can be found on the Library Services professional community.

New journal titles as at 24 October 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Education in the news for week ending 20 October 2011

Inclusive education and disability update as at 17 October 2011

Education in the news for week ending 13 October 2011

Technologies in the classroom as at 13 October 2011

New journal titles as at 10 October 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Early childhood update as at 7 October 2011

Education in the news for week ending 6 October 2011

Leadership and management update as at 3 October 2011

Education in the news for week ending 29 September 2011

Arts Connection - Connect, Collaborate, Contribute

The ICT Learning Innovation Centre is holding a face to face event for all Arts Teachers called Arts Connection. The aim of the event is to support arts teachers by providing a platform to develop a professional learning network to include colleagues from all areas of the arts Dance, Drama, Film, TV and New Media, Music and Visual Arts. The day will be divided into three sessions; connect, collaborate and contribute. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from each other, talk to education and trade representatives and play with a range of digital technologies.

The event will be held on Monday 5th December, 2011 at 9.00am - 3.00pm.

Visit the ICT Learning Innovation Centre for more information and to register.

Term 4 classroom resource lists

Select and request resources from our latest lists:

Gold - Middle primary
Government - Upper primary
Festivals and celebrations - Years P-7
Bushrangers - Middle to upper primary
Environment - Middle primary.

Changes to Information Update Service

There will be several changes to the Information Update Service from October 2011:

The Professional Development Update will be discontinued as a separate update, but some professional development content will be included in the Leadership and Management Update in future.
Education Update will be renamed Technologies in the Classroom and will expand the existing emphasis on eLearning and educational technologies. Leadership and Management Update will now include some of the more general content that previously appeared in Education Update.
The New Curriculum Titles and New Professional Titles services; will be available via the homepage of the Library Services website (see Latest Resources).

New journal titles as at 26 September 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Education in the news for week ending 22 September 2011

Inclusive education and disability update as at 19 September 2011

Updated professional topic: Grief and grieving (incorporating youth suicide)

Note: This page is for Department of Education and Training staff only.
A list of professional resources on the topic of grief and grieving and youth suicide. All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.

Education update as at 16 September 2011

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Education update is an alerting service provided by Library Services. It contains the latest issues and trends in education and technologies for teaching and learning.

Education in the news for week ending 15 September 2011

Something that begins with Stories Workshop

This October the team at Library Services are inviting all EQ Early Phase educators to the annual 'Something that begins with Stories' Workshop Day. Join the team for an engaging, relevant and fun day of professional development where we'll explore how ICTs can be used to engage students in the reading and exploration of literary texts. The day is specifically designed to support teachers to begin their journey in developing a repertoire of listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing and creating activities that include the use of ICTs. Learning experiences during the day will be linked to the new Australian Curriculum and the Student ICT Expectations for P-3 students.
View this workshop flyer

Updated professional topic: Promotion of books and reading

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These resources offer teachers and parents information on the promotion of books and reading to children and adolescents. Library Services has produced a range of related Professional Topics:
Critical literacy
Information literacy
Reading recovery

New journal titles as at 12 September 2011

These issues of the predominantly peer-reviewed journals have recently been added to the Professional Collection and will be available from Library Services, Coorparoo Education Precinct.

Professional development update as at 9 September 2011

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Professional development update is a monthly information alerting service provided by Library Services. It focuses on school-based personnel and their professional development.

Education in the news for week ending 8 September 2011

Leadership and management update as at 5 September 2011

Updated professional topic: Bullying and cyberbullying

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This is a list of resources that discuss the issue of bullying and cyberbullying in schools.
Suggested search terms: bullying, school bullying, cyberbullying, cyber-bullying, cyber bullying, harassment in schools, school violence.

Updated professional topic: Multiliteracies

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The term multiliteracies was coined by the New London Group in 1996. The concept seeks to broaden the understanding of literacy in teaching and learning and to acknowledge a multiplicity of discourses within the school curriculum. The term aims to highlight two related aspects of the increasing complexity of texts: (a) the proliferation of multimodal ways of making meaning where the written word is increasingly part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns; (b) the increasing salience of cultural and linguistic diversity characterized by local diversity and global connectedness.

Simply, multiliteracies refers to

Making meaning through the visual interpretation of texts and images
Having the ability to make meaning from text (and images) in more than one language

ACARA and Multimodal Texts Workshops

Library Services is conducting an ACARA and Multimodal Texts workshop on 15 and 16 September from 8:45am til 3:00 pm at Coorparoo Education Precinct 347 Old Cleveland Road Coorparoo.
The workshop is being conducted to allow for teachers to extend their stay in Brisbane after the event. The school will be invoiced $100 for this workshop.
The workshop has been extended to two days due to the amount of work covered and the opportunity for participants to obtain their ICT Certificate accreditation at the end of the two days.
The workshop provides many opportunities for teachers to work with curriculum resources and software in preparation for the introduction of ACARA English and other KLAs.

Topics include:

character creation with reference to beasts/creatures/myths/legends using a Claymation process - storyboarding, character construction and camera work
blue/green screen movies and photography - no you do not have to have a green/blue room
creating eBooks that can be played on any computer with a browser or Adobe Flash Player installed. The software brings together movies, images and text enabling students to explore a wide range of digital technologies and text production
Movie Maker and Literacy.

The ideas are linked to Literature and Literacy in the National Curriculum (ACARA), reflect the ideas of the four resource model and are all based on using the software on all MOE computers supplied to EQ staff and schools plus a few freeware programs. Most genres are covered as well as ideas for ACARA English. The illustrated texts used during the workshop will be available for loan as class sets (6 copies) at the end of the day from Library Services
All materials used and a full collection of resources containing all the tutorials, PowerPoints and software used during the workshop are provided to participants. This will allow participants to share their ideas with others on returning to their school or to reflect on the ideas covered at a later date. None of the PowerPoints are locked so can be adapted to suit the context of the school.

PD Certificates will be provided at the end of the workshop.

Visit Library learning community to find out more and to register.

Online Literature Festival - free resources to support classroom programs

Would you like your students to be able to engage with real authors?
Want to promote discussion about effective writing strategies?
Keen to foster students' interest in quality literature?
The Online Literature Festival (OLF) is the answer!

The Online Literature Festival is coordinated by the Learning Place and will run until 15 September 2011.
The festival's web conference sessions with authors, illustrators and scriptwriters are an extremely valuable resource that teachers can easily include in their classroom English program for FREE and they commence on 29 August 2011.

Authors included in the program are: Deborah Abela, Tristan Bancks, Di Bates, Kerry Brown, Paul Collins, Meredith Costain, Laurine Croasdale, Hazel Edwards, Melaina Faranda, Janine Fraser, Jackie French, Libby Gleeson, Steven Herrick, Leigh Hobbs, Kim Kane, Chris Morphew, Sally Murphy, Michael Panckridge, Oliver Phommavanh, Michael Pryor, Felicity Pulman, Gabrielle Wang, and Carole Wilkinson.

Check out the timetable at Online Literature Festival

Tell it digitally Competition 2011

Win three iPod Touches for your school - engage your students in local and Australian history by creating a digital story. Education Queensland's Library and Digital Resource Services provides this opportunity with the launch of the Tell it digitally Competition 2011. Open to state school Year 4-9 students, this creative project asks students to use their imagination and digital media skills to showcase any aspect of their school or community (past or present) or a significant event or person in Australian history. Students have the option of using Photo Story 3, Movie Maker or iMovie to create their projects. The competition commences on the Wednesday 10 August and closes at 5pm on Friday 21 October 2011. Why not register for a fantastic student web conference in the Student OneChannel this Thursday which will assist you with this competition.
Details: Using Photo Story 3 - Tuesday 23 August 10 - 10.30am
More information about the competition can be viewed at Library Learning Community.

New professional topic: Middle Phase of Learning

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List of books, journal articles, and other online resources on the middle phase of learning; part of the Phases of Learning series.
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Updated professional topic: Single-sex education

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Professional resource list on the debate on single-sex education (part of the Catering for all learners series). All items listed are accessible through Library Services.
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Updated professional topic: Special needs in communication

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Professional resource list on Special needs in communication (part of the Catering for all learners series). All items listed are accessible through Education Queensland Library Services.
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You review wiki

A bulletin board message announces the new Book reviews wiki has been created by Library Services for EQ teachers and teacher-librarians to discuss children's books and share reviews.
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