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Reflection: Teaching, unmasking, and finding the flow in 2025
If you’ve read my recent posts, you know that 2025 was a year of personal discovery. Coming to terms with my AuDHD diagnosis has been a journey of recovery, discovery, and peace. While reading the feedback from my students in… Continue reading
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Reflection: SICS Learning & Teaching Retreat 2024
Krystal reflects on her teaching journey, highlighting insights gained from a recent learning retreat, particularly on designing accessible digital learning materials, which has revitalized her approach to teaching. Continue reading
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To remove or not to remove
Edited on 25/07/2025 to add reference to and discussion of the ALIA Code of Ethics – Cannot believe I missed this! 🤦♀️ I recently wrote the following piece to share my thinking and decision-making process with my students, following questions… Continue reading
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Who am I? Recovery, discovery, and peace.
It’s undoubtedly been a long time since I last posted on my blog or any of my social media accounts. Some of you may have been wondering where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing, and others may not have… Continue reading
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Tidying links for APA7 reference lists
Ever been pulled up for untidy links in your referencing? Did you know that when you copy and paste a URL from a source you’ve come to through a search engine, it might have some extra details that you don’t… Continue reading
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Opinion: 2023 Softlink report – Part 2/3
Welcome to part two of my opinion piece on the 2023 Softlink report. The first part, available at this link, covers my thoughts on this year’s participant numbers. My plan for this post is to dive deeper into school library budgets… Continue reading
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Paraphrasing is not *just* about avoiding plagiarism
One of the adjustments I had to make when stepping into the world of teacher librarianship was my understanding of paraphrasing. During my schooling and first couple of uni degrees, I was operating under the assumption that paraphrasing was changing… Continue reading
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Opinion: 2023 Softlink report – Part 1/3
The 2023 Softlink report has been released for 2023 and I am FINALLY getting around to writing up my thoughts on it. I am pleased to see that there was a significant increase in respondents this year, particularly in New… Continue reading
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Microsoft Word Skills
Written instructions for six important skills in Microsoft Word. Continue reading
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Book-sell blurb: Six of Crows
This town isn’t big enough for more than one gang, and Kaz will do almost anything to be the only man of power in Ketterdam. Would you join him? Ketterdam is run by criminals, exiled Grisha, and hunters. Survival is… Continue reading
