March 17

Agenda: professional development day

Our Term 2 Meeting is set for WED 3rd June at Jamisontown PS, Penrith South.
Teacher Librarian: Tracey Jones
Address: Thurwood Avenue, Penrith South
Parking: In-ground parking available at back of school
Phone: (02) 4733 2200

8.15 am   Registration & Coffee

9.00 am   Welcome by Principal: Mrs Lorraine Segula

Housekeeping

9.15 am   Guest Speaker: Paul MacDonald (The Children’s Bookshop): Review of the Shortlisted CBCA titles and What’s Hot

10.15 am Sponsors’ Presentations: Edufun and Elizabeth Richards

10.30 – 11.00 am MORNING TEA

11.00 – 12:00 pm  Concurrent Workshops 1

A: OASIS Beginners – Stocktake and Adding Websites Laureen Sheppard (Katoomba High School)

B: Integrating Blogs & Wikis Into the Library Teaching Program Ian McLean (Penrith PS)

C: Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Literacy Framework – A useful frame work for analysing images Lizzie Chase Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit

12.10  – 1.00 pm Concurrent Workshops 2

A: Advanced OASIS –  Better Library  Reports or how to make them do what you want them to do Laureen Sheppard (Katoomba High School)

B: Integrating Blogs & Wikis Into the Library’s Teaching Program – Ian McLean (Penrith PS)

C: Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Literacy Framework – A useful frame work for analysing images – Lizzie Chase Review Coordinator, School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit

1.00 – 2.00 pm  LUNCH and Sponsors’ Displays

2.00 – 3.00 pm Looking Forward, Looking Back: the art of picture book collaboration – Lisa Shanahan (author) and Emma Quay (illustrator)

3.00 – 3.30 pm Concluding Evaluation / Lucky Door Prize Draws.