If you don't stretch, you don't know where the edge is -- Sara Little Turnbull, designer
Katie Day: CV
Online
The Librarian Edge blog
Comments from Katie blog - addressed to teachers in my school
Instead of a Letter blog
Archive 2009: What's Happening @ the East Library?
Wikis and Nings -- ways to collect knowledge and share it with others
Blogs -- online conversations and gathered thoughts
Book Groups & Books
-- Singapore Wednesday Night Book Group
-- Singapore Children's Lit Group
-- My sister Martha's book group in Maine
-- London Smith Club bookgroup
-- Misc book info
Lesson Archive & Librarian Resources
-- Lessons
-- Bookmarks for popular series
-- PYP-related materials
-- Search and Inquiry Cycles -- pick a model, any model...
-- Booklists
-- Sourcing books
-- Library/Book-related Listservs -- what I subscribe to and how I manage them
-- Designing a new library -- lots of links and notes for anyone contemplating a new/re-design of a learning space
-- Photos of my current school library
-- Photos of other school libraries I have visited or worked at (note: you need to be on my Flickr "friend" list to view most of them -- just ask me)
-- East Campus Library info
-- Library Software - the new, the different, the useful...
-- Destiny bits and bobs
Online catalogs of some international schools
Replaced list below with Delicious link -- search for tag "schoolopacs"
-- UWCSEA [Destiny]
-- Canadian International School (Singapore) [Destiny]
-- American School in Japan
-- Singapore American School [Destiny]
-- International School of Tianjin (China) [Destiny] -- library webpage
-- International School Bangkok (ISB) [Destiny]
-- International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) [Destiny]
-- Tanglin Trust School (Singapore) [Oliver]
-- ASH Middle School [Destiny]
-- ACST Library [Destiny]
-- Hong Kong Island School [Oliver]
-- Western International School of Shanghai [Destiny]
-- Renaissance College, Hong Kong [Oliver]
-- Anglo-American School, Moscow [Destiny]
-- Tianjin International School, China [Destiny]
-- Sinarmas World Academy, Indonesia [Destiny]
-- International School of Belgrade [Destiny]
-- SJI International, Singapore [Destiny]
-- Washington International School (USA) [Destiny]
-- American Int'l School in Dhaka (India) [Destiny]
Projects/Workshops
-- with Beth Gourley at Learning 2.0 in Shanghai, September 2011; see the wiki of the Librarian Strand at Learning 2.0
-- a website created to support a presentation by me and Barb Philip of Tanglin Trust School at the IASL/SLAQ (International Association of School Librarians / School Library Association of Queensland) conference in Brisbane, Australia, September 2010
-- a website created by me to support a one-day conference organized by our Singapore international school librarian network, ISS-LN
-- a website created by me to support a PYP Job-Alike workshop presented by me and Megan Graff of the Canadian International School on April 26, 2010
-- websites created by me to support the children's choice book award initiated by our Singapore international school librarian network
-- a website created to support a workshop offered at TeachIT in Singapore on November 21, 2009 by me and Barb Philip (Tanglin Trust School).
-- a wiki created by me and Beth Gourley to support a presentation at 21st Century Learning @Hong Kong, September 17-19, 2009
Connecting East (2009)
-- optional PD initiative to introduce online web tools for educators to our staff. Developed by me and Keri-Lee Beasley, Term 2, 2008-2009, based on the 23 Things movement.
-- the blog -- where weekly tasks are introduced
-- the wiki -- reference site where tools and tasks are presented for four levels of users: Novice, Apprentice, Practitioner, Expert
-- a website created by me to support a one-day conference organized by our Singapore international school librarian network, ISS-LN
-- a workshop presented at TeachIT 2007 in Singapore by me and Barb Philip -- on collecting, organizing, and sharing information, and the tools we can't live without. We set up a wiki page for everyone attending to contribute to -- and we started it off with a collection of our own social software projects.
-- Material gathered in early 2006 on future trends, social software, and school libraries, including a 'commonplace book' wiki, bookmarks, and book list. Produced by me and Beth Gourley as preparation for and summary of a workshop -- and not modified since then.
-- A virtual collection of books to support the PYP (Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate Organization (www.ibo.org) framework, including (but not limited to) tags for:
The IBO Learner Profile: inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective.
The PYP Concepts: form, function, causation, change, connection, perspective, responsibility, and reflection.
The PYP Attitudes: appreciation, commitment, confidence, cooperation, creativity, curiosity, empathy, enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect, and tolerance.
Notes from Conferences/Conventions
-- International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific Teachers' Convention 2007 on "Information Literacy across the IB Programmes", held in Singapore, March 31 -- April 2
-- East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools Teachers' Conference 2007 held in Bangkok, March 28 - 31
-- East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools Teachers' Conference 2006 held in Manila, March 29 -- April 2
Miscellaneous
Papers from my past -- on Information Literacy, Teacher-Librarianship, etc.
Some of my favorite theorists and readings
Podcast interview of me by Chris Smith of Shambles.net -- part of his Shambles podcasts
contact me
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