Future Directions
Good educational and library practice demands that we look for anything that improves our mandates to promote learning, community, research skills, writing, and reading. (Abram, 2008)
Reading blogs and book raps
Reading circles
Book displays
QLD State Interschool Readers' Cup
Lamont Standing Orders Teachers notes for each of the books.
http://lamontbooks.com.au/info/teacher-notes-download
In the past few years we've seen an explosion of reading. … Whole new genres have developed, especially episodic reading in the gaming world and hybrid styles such as graphic novels. … It's an exciting and challenging world of reading that is no longer the sole purview of gatekeepers such as publishers, bookstore buyers, librarians, and magazine editors.
Can we prepare our learners to be full participants in this emerging world order? (Abram, 2008)
15 THINGS 2.0 CAN DO FOR BOOKS AND READING
Book display ideas http://www.flickr.com/groups/school_library_displays
meebo: instant messaging everywhere — http://www.meebo.com/
“Meebo is a new communications and media company that's re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web. We provide instant messaging and group chat to over 35 million people at meebo.com and via partner sites across the Web.”
Brings new meaning to the concept of a big book. New shared book experiences available online, for example use your IWB and the LookyBook website to share books page by page with your class. Interpreting illustrations
http://lookybook.com/mainpage.php?name_id=1383
Totlols (online video clips, You Tube)
http://www.totlol.com/
Audible Kids (provides audio books and tips for educators)
http://kids.audible.com
Audio book clubs , web-based electronic books (classics on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page and the Open Content Alliance http://www.opencontentalliance.org/),
webliographies http://www.webliography.itgo.com/
, blog posts, and one-city-one-book ideas from other libraries, online celebrity readers,
Videos on YouTube
RSS feeds and podcasts on http://www.australia.gov.au/RSS_Feeds_and_Podcasts
Ever wondered where Wikipedia came from? Visit Wikimedia to find out http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Or try http://pbwiki.com/ ?
Why stop at promoting reading?
Read, write and talk at ABCTales http://www.abctales.com/
Or try the productivity and collaboration tools on Zoho http://www.zoho.com/
International Children's Digital Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
BOOK AWARDS
Bilby Awards
http://www.pa.ash.org.au/cbc/bilbyawards/
Children’s Book Council of Australia
http://cbca.org.au/Default.aspx
Kids Own Australian Literature Awards
http://www.koalansw.org.au/
YABBA Young Australians' Best Book Award
Children’s Choice Book Award in Victoria
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba/
GUEST SPEAKERS
Show and Tell Promotions: Speakers for all occasions
http://www.showtell.com.au/
Booked Out: Speakers Agency
http://www.bookedout.com.au/
AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Authors and illustrators, on Scholastic
http://www.scholastic.com.au/common/books/contributor.asp?channel=common
Some Australian author’s like Goldie Alexander provide teachers notes for their books via their personal websites.
http://www.goldiealexander.com/teachersnotes.php
Other like Felice Arena, author of Farticus Maximus and Other Stories that Stink! (2008) provide websites with activities for kids
http://www.farticusmaximus.com.au/
Ray Montgomery’s Choose Your Own Adventure Website (alternate endings)
http://www.cyoa.com/
Fiona McIntosh’s
http://www.fionamcintosh.com/
Some provide extracts and short readings, like Christine Harris, author of Audrey of the Outback
http://www.christineharris.com/
Illustrators like David Cornish and Anna Walker provide online folios of their work that teachers can use in reading and viewing or visual arts lessons.
Illustrator David Cornish on his website David Draws
http://www.daviddraws.com/
Kilmeny Niland
http://www.kilmenyniland.com/index.html
Anna Walker
http://www.annawalker.com.au/
Christopher Cheng, the Literacy Ambassador for National Literacy and Numeracy Week provides book reviews on his blog, newkidsbooksinoz,
http://newkidsbooksinoz.blogspot.com/
As Literacy Ambassador for National Literacy and Numeracy Week many new Australian kids books arrive at my desk. This blog is one way of spreading the news ... the news that we have wonderful kids books being published here. The books are personal favourites - ones that I like ... and maybe you will like them too.
About Me
Christopher
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Margaret Connolly & Associates (literary agent reviews comment on the work of colleagues and provides links to their websites)
http://margaretconnolly.com/
Some authors, provide opportunities to correspond with their characters, online, e.g. Visit the Ask Ocko page on Alan Sunderland’s website, to send a question to the rat detective of OCTAVIUS O'MALLEY & THE MYSTERY OF THE EXPLODING CHEESE:
http://www.alansunderland.com/
MAGAZINES
Dmag Dorothy Tonkin editor
http://www.dmag.com.au/
References
Church A. (2006) Your Library Goes Virtual: Promoting Reading and Supporting Research in Library Media Connection November/December 2006.
Abram, S. (2008) Promoting Reading Using This 2.0 Stuff, MultiMedia & Internet@Schools, Sep/Oct2008, Vol. 15 Issue 5, 21–23.
Miller, P. (2004) Library Tactics to Encourage Reading, Library Media Connection (1542-4715) Vol.22,Iss.4; 14-16.
RMIT 1999 research report by and made available from the Advantage Learning Systems Australia (now known as Renaissance Learning Australia). Retrieved October 26, 2008 from http://research.renlearn.com/research/pdfs/60.pdf
RMIT University (1999) “The Impact of the Accelerated Reader® Pilot Program in Australia: Extract from a Research Project Conducted by RMIT University”. Ashwood, Victoria: Renaissance Learning Australia Pty Ltd. Retrieved October 26, 2008 from http://research.renlearn.com/research/pdfs/60.pdf
Powell, Sarah; Holmes, Stacy; Witt, Emily; Holmes, Kerry. (2007). Readers and Book Characters: Does Race Matter? Journal of Educational Research (0022-0671) 01/05/2007. Vol.100,Iss.5; 276-282.
