Sr Ann Marie Learning Centre
Library news and information for Cerdon College Staff
Term 1, February 2016
News from ClickView
Fall in love with the ClickView Exchange all over again this Valentine's Day
On the 14th of February we’ll be launching the next generation ClickView Exchange.
Since its launch in March 2005, the ClickView Exchange has grown to 23,700 television programs – all contributed by Australian schools and made available under your school’s Screenrights licence.
Over the school holiday break we carried out an extensive and much needed clean-up of the ClickView Exchange content library.
The next generation ClickView Exchange now allows any staff user to contribute educationally relevant video to the ClickView Exchange – whether it’s a television program or a flipped classroom recording – all from within ClickView Online.
We sincerely hope that you love the new ClickView Exchange.
Thank you.
Regards,
Evan Clark
ClickView CEO and Founder
Dive into Metro’s Summer 2016 issue!
Metro’s first issue for 2016 moves from backwater towns to the bright lights of Berlin, and traverses themes as manifold as repression, representation, gender identity and the erosive power of time.
Gracing issue 187’s pages are scintillating articles on the relationship between story and setting as seen in TV series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and The Doctor Blake Mysteries, as well as the varied tales and techniques enabled by the web series medium. You’ll also read about revenge comedy The Dressmaker, coming-of-age film Sucker and creepy flick The Gift, all helmed by Australian directors. Headlining the issue is a meticulous exploration of Downriver, the gripping feature debut of director Grant Scicluna.
Asia-bound, Metro covers The Assassin, which garnered Hou Hsiao-hsien the Best Director award at Cannes 2015; Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, which won the top prize at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival; as well as Villa Touma, Mountains May Depart and Li Wen at East Lake. Also explored are the documentaries Another Country, the final instalment in Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds’ ‘country suite’; Women He’s Undressed, about neglected Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly; Ecco Homo and Freedom Stories.
Lastly, Wrong Side of the Road – this issue’s addition to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection essay series – is examined in light of its depiction of black–white relations, and its straddling of the rockumentary, social drama and road movie genres.
Click here for more information
or to read selected articles.
Take the plunge and buy or subscribe to Metro (if you haven’t already)!
– Adolfo Aranjuez
Editor, Metro
The Learning Exchange (LEX) - Staff eBooks & Print Books
The Learning Exchange (LEX) at AKC provides access to a wide range of professional resources for teachers in the Parramatta Diocese. Each week LEX shares a Staff eBook and Print Book of the Week. Please browse a range of recent suggestions below. Additional staff ebooks may be browsed and borrowed via the school library catalogue (open the library catalogue through the app on your iPad and select Staff eBooks or you can also search via your computer. Click here to go to the catalogue). If you need any assistance accessing eBooks please see Nancy.
Staff eBook: Creative Teaching Mathematics
This book shows how mathematics and mathematics teaching can be creative, exciting and enjoyable. Offering teachers a dynamic and different perspective on mathematics, it enables them to see and teach in creative ways that will develop students’ mathematical thinking potential. The book:
covers both primary and early years range
includes issues for reflection, discussion
points and case studies
- addresses new teacher training modules on creativity and maths
(Recommended by the Learning Exchange LEX)
Print book Via LEX: Well Played : building mathematical thinking through number games and puzzles
Well Played shows you how to make games and puzzles an integral learning component that provides teachers with unique access to student thinking. The twenty-five games and puzzles in this book have all been field-tested in diverse classrooms, contain:
- Explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learning
- Variations for each game or puzzle to address a range of learning levels and styles
- Clear step-by-step directions
- Classroom vignettes that model how best to introduce the featured game or puzzle.
The book also includes a separate chapter with suggestions for how to effectively manage games and puzzles in diverse classrooms; reproducibles that provide directions, game boards, game cards, and puzzles; assessment ideas; and suggestions for online games, puzzles, and apps. Well Played will help you tap the power of games and puzzles to engage students in sustained and productive mathematical thinking.
To borrow, please contact:
ph : 9677 4345Further reading:
LEX website: http://goo.gl/dGqWER
The Learning Exchange (LEX) Part 2
Staff eBook: The Graphic Novel Classroom
This book overcomes the challenge of keeping adolescents reading. In these pages, you will learn how to create your own graphic novel in order to inspire students and make them love reading. Create your own superhero to teach reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving!
Readers will learn how to incorporate graphic novels into their classrooms in order to:
Teach twenty-first-century skills such as interpretation of content and form
Improve students’ writing and visual comprehension
Captivate both struggling and proficient students in reading
Promote authentic literacy learning
Develop students’ ability to create in multiple formats
eBook link: http://goo.gl/QaLU47
(Recommended by the Learning Exchange LEX)
Print book via LEX: The Shape of Text to Come
This new resource caters for both practising educators and students alike, providing a theoretical framework for understanding and working with visual and multimodal texts. It contains a stunning collection of images; a variety of quality texts; classroom strategies; and activities that integrate appropriate ICT. This book can be utilised over many key learning areas, with links to the Australian Curriculum.
To borrow, please contact:
ph : 9677 4345Article via eResources: More than comic books
This article discusses the benefits of using graphic novels in middle school and high school education. The author states that graphic novels can be used to engage students' interests in subjects such as literature, culture, and history. In addition, he states that the close integration of text and images require similar skills necessary in reading websites and magazines as well as traditional reading skills. Information is provided on how to integrate such forms of literature into a curriculum as well as titles in subjects such as social studies, mathematics, and science.
Follow this link to a selected journal article via eResources:
Staff eBook: Reading in the Wild
Reading in the Wild, written with reading teacher Susan Kelley, describes how to truly instill lifelong "wild" reading habits in our students.
Based, in part, on survey responses from adult readers as well as students, this book offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess five key reading habits that cultivate a lifelong love of reading.
Also included are:
Strategies
Lesson plans
Management tools
Comprehensive lists of recommended books
eBook link: http://goo.gl/6LSQip
(Recommended by the Learning Exchange LEX)
Print book via LEX: Reading Under The Covers
This book explains what kids want in a book, and which books they choose. Interviews with the authors and illustrators of books that kids have chosen in Australia-wide competitions throw light on the processes involved in creating these award-winning books, and give voice to one consistent underlying message: let books be the child’s playground, where the imagination can roam free.
To borrow, please contact:
ph : 9677 4345Article via eResources: Taming the Wild Text
Article link: http://goo.gl/UAUnGi
How to grow a classroom culture that supports blended learning
Hip Hop and Science
Transmedia Storytelling
New Journals in the library
The 'Maker Movement' has a place in all disciplines
The Maker Space is Doomed
The Future of the Humanities: reading
An article exploring the pros and cons of various reading mediums over time. Read it here.
Togs, bathers or cossies?
You may have spotted this article in the SMH a few weeks ago. It's an interesting and amusing article about language. Read it here.
The Power of Conversation : a lesson from CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
"Magical, even life-changing things can happen when you choose to enter into conversation — when you choose spontaneity over editing and efficiency. But it is paradoxically a spontaneity that one must intentionally seek and ready oneself for.
So prepare ye the way."
Read the full article here.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
12 Apps of Christmas
There is a free online 'course' starting on December 1st, called the 'the 12 Apps of Christmas'.
From the site: "a page will be released that reviews a particular mobile app and explores it in terms of how it could help students personalise their learning. More information on what personalisation means, and how it can benefit student learning, can be found on the student information page. An information page for educators has also been included which explains what tutors and lecturers can do to create the type of environment that provides students with unique opportunities to personalise their learning."
If you have the time, it may be interesting to sign-up and follow it through for the 12 days. Register and watch a short video here.
Thanks for reading ...
Librarian
SAM Learning Centre
Sr Ann Marie Learning Centre
Email: nsylaprany@parra.catholic.edu.au
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