Can't say any more yet, and I will show you a photo when the secret's out...but the Year 12 present to our school this year is coming to the library to live. I was in conversation with the Year 12 year adviser, and happened to mention something I'd like for here (but couldn't afford), and thought she might like, and the students too, and had any decision on the year group's present been made? (Always a useful conversation to have in Term 3, if your year 12 group commonly gives a present to the school...and you have something appropriate in mind. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't, but if you say nuffin, nuffin happens).
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And it hadn't. But it was. She liked the idea VERY much. It's something that can be a part of the school for all the kids, long-term. It has the approval of the year group too, and the main element of it arrived in the post yesterday.
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WOOHOOO!
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Now what she doesn't know is the present the Year 12 students are planning for her, and which I'm facilitating with space/assistance next week...
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Plots and plans! The happy life of teacher librarians...
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Cheers
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Ruth
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PS vague clues in the tags on this entry...but the reveal has to wait till it's finished and formally presented at the end of term.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
The happy life of teacher librarians visits New Zealand
At the King's High School in New Zealand, Mrs Schaumann is certainly enjoying the happy life of teacher librarians - I chuckled at the delightful entries in her blog about the Tuesday lunchtime tradition in her library, and what happens when a teacher gets hold of a useful website (with printables) and a pair of scissors...
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Her blog's over there in my bloglist, if you would like to keep an ongoing eye on it (as I do!).
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Yay for the happy life of teacher librarians everywhere!
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Cheers
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Ruth
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Her blog's over there in my bloglist, if you would like to keep an ongoing eye on it (as I do!).
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Yay for the happy life of teacher librarians everywhere!
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Cheers
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Ruth
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Twilight New Moon: third trailer
The third trailer for Twilight: New Moon has just been released - more Volturi/Italy (with Alice channelling sixties headscarf style) and so forth and so on. The fans will be happy!
TrailerSpy URL: http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/5348/The-Twilight-Saga-New-Moon-Trailer
Cheers
Ruth
TrailerSpy URL: http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/5348/The-Twilight-Saga-New-Moon-Trailer
Cheers
Ruth
GIFSL* 41: bins
To borrow a line from Paul Kelly, From little things, big things grow...
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One of the first things I noticed in this library when I tottered through the door nearly ten years ago (and I do mean tottered, it was one of the worst looking libraries I'd ever seen, and little used) was the bins.
Not a major issue, you might think. But the bins, then, were old, thumped and battered ribbed metal wastepaper baskets - that was the few better ones - or cut-down plastic chemical containers, recycled to this purpose. Recycling has of course its important place, but the bins really bothered me. Symptomatic of 'it'll do' and 'it doesn't matter' and a whole lot of things that were wrong with the place. Not the biggest place to begin, but I scouted out a replacement - cheerful plastic wastepaper bins such as you can buy at Ikea or Bunnings for well under $5 each - and every darn one of those shabby bins left the building. I've since had to add a few more, here and there, and so we have a mix of blue, red and white ones (depending on the colour/s available at time of buying). It's an easy and cheap fix to try.
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There ended up being more bins in the library than there had been before - only a few more for our lovely cleaner to have to empty each day, but carefully located so it's easy to find one and put rubbish in there rather than not in a bin. Which also enhances the library environment.
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I've never had a kid comment on the nice bins, but even such a little detail is part of the library's message. Nice things here. Setting a standard to make it pleasant and spick. We care about this place, and how it is for you. Right down to details such as nice bins. Welcome.
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How are the bins at your place?
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Cheers
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Ruth
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*GIFSL: Good ideas for school libraries
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One of the first things I noticed in this library when I tottered through the door nearly ten years ago (and I do mean tottered, it was one of the worst looking libraries I'd ever seen, and little used) was the bins.
Not a major issue, you might think. But the bins, then, were old, thumped and battered ribbed metal wastepaper baskets - that was the few better ones - or cut-down plastic chemical containers, recycled to this purpose. Recycling has of course its important place, but the bins really bothered me. Symptomatic of 'it'll do' and 'it doesn't matter' and a whole lot of things that were wrong with the place. Not the biggest place to begin, but I scouted out a replacement - cheerful plastic wastepaper bins such as you can buy at Ikea or Bunnings for well under $5 each - and every darn one of those shabby bins left the building. I've since had to add a few more, here and there, and so we have a mix of blue, red and white ones (depending on the colour/s available at time of buying). It's an easy and cheap fix to try.
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There ended up being more bins in the library than there had been before - only a few more for our lovely cleaner to have to empty each day, but carefully located so it's easy to find one and put rubbish in there rather than not in a bin. Which also enhances the library environment.
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I've never had a kid comment on the nice bins, but even such a little detail is part of the library's message. Nice things here. Setting a standard to make it pleasant and spick. We care about this place, and how it is for you. Right down to details such as nice bins. Welcome.
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How are the bins at your place?
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Cheers
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Ruth
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*GIFSL: Good ideas for school libraries
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Discussing DRM (and e-books)
Even the slightest acquaintance with discussion swirling around e-books will likely trip you over the idea of DRM, or Digital Rights Management. Publishers like it because it means recompense for work. Readers range from acceptance to active hostility, when DRM encoding means an e-book usefulness/ability to be read may be severely limited (eg. to few file types, or a single e-reader device etc). Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series, participated in an interesting discussion on DRM: Will E-book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers on NPR. Read a summary of the discussion, or listen to it in full, here.
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Cheers,
Ruth
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Cheers,
Ruth
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are: Spike and Maurice
Trailerspy labels this as the 'international trailer', but it's more like a mini-featurette, mostly with author Maurice Sendak and director Spike Jonze talking about the making of the film.
Link: http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/5223/Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-International-Trailer
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If you want more on the film, there's also a long, detailed article by Saki Knafo in the NY Times about bringing this book to the screen - read it here.
Cheers
Ruth
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Link: http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/5223/Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-International-Trailer
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If you want more on the film, there's also a long, detailed article by Saki Knafo in the NY Times about bringing this book to the screen - read it here.
Cheers
Ruth
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Twilight in 30 seconds (by bunnies)
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It's a little while since I dropped in on this site, and golly gee, I hadn't caught up with their version of Twilight. My goodness, it's efficient - barely misses a major plot point, and does it with fabulous style (and bunnies). The image above has Edward arriving at the canteen. Below, the prom.
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Hard to tell the difference, isn't it?
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If you haven't checked out their other 30-seconds-with-bunnies films, well, you should. Your English teachers might like them too. And maybe these could be added to a trailerfest?
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Cheers,
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Ruth
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