October 1st is the deadline for papers for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) which next year has a focus on Japan — though not every presentation has to…
Category: professional development
Key learning points of the IB librarians workshop held Aug15
I had the opportunity to participate in the IB Category 1 Diploma Programme (Librarians) workshop that was held in UWCSEA East in Singapore from 21 to 23 August 2015. The…
Welcoming Social – Fri Aug 21…. and a new online sharing space for us TLs in Asia….
There’s a new Facebook group for teacher-librarians working in Asia, started by Dianne McKenzie, called Asia School Library Connection. I would encourage you all to join. I think it’s a…
Post-PD Summary: Librarians’ Lunch & TeachUp 2015 @ UWC East
Last Saturday, March 14, there was a morning and an afternoon opportunity for professional development. The inaugural TeachUp event, held at UWCSEA East, included two sessions by librarians. TeachUp 2015…
Update: Leisurely Lunch in the Library — focusing on three kinds of Literacy – March 14th
Update on this Saturday afternoon’s professional development opportunity at the UWCSEA East campus (12:30 – 3:00 in the Secondary Library — after the TeachUp event). This is the programme line-up:…
A leisurely librarians’ luncheon – with professional learning – Sat. March 14
You may have heard from your school PD person about TeachUp 2015 — a new mini conference here in Singapore. It’s an initiative of the international school PD network and…
Report back: Information Literacy Seminar 2015 at SMU, Jan. 29
Thursday, Jan 29 — from 2:00 to 5:30pm — Singapore Management University (SMU) hosted a seminar on information literacy entitled, We are teaching but are they learning? ISLN was well…
Report back: the iCreate Conference 2015 at SAS Fri Jan 23 – Sat Jan 24
The Singapore American School librarians hosted a next-generation version of their annual children’s literature conference — now called iCreate (#iCreate2015). In addition to bringing in four award-winning authors/illustrators from the…
Report back: Kevin Hennah’s Cultural Weeding Workshop in KL, Jan 23, 2015
Kevin Hennah did a workshop on “Cultural Weeding” at ISKL in Malaysia Friday, Jan 23. Philip Moon, the high school librarian at OFS, attended and has kindly shared his report…
New Year update – looking back and forward
If you missed the Dec 10th talk at AISS by Prof. Scott Nicholson on gamification in libraries (see announcement here), then you can get a very good idea of what…