Tag: featured
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Book-sell blurbs for YA
I have recently been trying to think of ways I can help overworked, time-poor, teacher librarians (TLs), particularly those with smaller teams or working by themselves. In a conversation with one of my TL colleagues, she got me thinking about how time-consuming and difficult it is for one person to read ALL THE BOOKS (not…
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Reflecting on giving feedback
Once upon a time, there was a senior geography teacher and she had a year 11 class filled with 10, bright and diligent students. One day, the teacher gave the students their marked assessments back. To her surprise, despite the generally high quality and marks awarded, the students seemed unhappy. The teacher, who had spent many years developing relationships with…
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Identifying reading identities
Ever wondered how I’ve been identifying reading identities in young people? In this blog post, I step you through my process and the tool I used!
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Book review: See you on Venus
I visited my old workplace recently and I got to talking with my lovely library ladies about new books that had come in over the past year. I didn’t realise how much I missed buying for a school library collection! So, I have decided to help them out a little by reading some of the…
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Brisbane Study Visit Wrap-up
Today we wrapped up our Brisbane Study Visit so I thought I’d share my 5 key takeaways!
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Creating a hanging indent in WordPress
Ever wondered how to create a hanging indent for your references in WordPress? I wrote a blog post with steps for how to do this – let me know how you go!
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Reading identities
One of the parts of my PhD research that gets me very excited is learning more about reading identities. I thought it would be a good idea to quickly share the four different types of identities I have come across and why teacher librarians need to be aware of them! Avid reader The first type…
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Working on campus for two weeks
In the last two weeks in February, I worked on campus and it was a lot of fun. This is my third work visit to Wagga Wagga (fourth overall so I’m starting to get the lay of the land) so I thought I’d do a bit of a run down of what’s been like to…
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Reviewing and rating books: A deeply personal act
The following Tweet popped up in my Twitter feed the other day and it got me thinking… There are a couple of issues within this tweet, including the concept of authors trying to influence reviews/ratings of their books, but the one I want to focus on is the act of rating and reviewing books, and…