Training - Other Events

Developing an online library and promoting digital literacy

Organised by the SLA and JISC Collections for Schools
24 March 2010    10:00 - 15:30
Hosted by Headington School, Oxford 

  • How does the development of an online library help to raise attainment, and how can success be measured?
  • Digital literacy - what is it and why is it important?
  • Integrating the library and the VLE - why and how?
  • How can online resources be used creatively in the classroom - and beyond - to benefit teaching and learning?
  • New Ofqual guidelines - what do they say about plagiarism and the importance of using trusted online resources in education?

These are just some of the important topics that will be explored in this FREE SEMINAR organised by JISC Collections for Schools in conjunction with the School Library Association.   

Speakers include:

  • Baldev Singh, Director of Education Strategy at Imagine Education Ltd, former head of ICT in a large secondary school in Bristol, and winner of the 2004 National Teaching Award for Innovation in Education
  • Julie Blake, an experienced teacher who has worked with English teachers on the development of subject-specific uses of ICT and digital resources for more than a decade.
  • Sheila Compton, Librarian at Dame Alice Owen's School
  • Lynne Winkworth, Chartered Librarian at Headington School and Chair of the Oxfordshire School Library Association   
  • Anne Flood, Academic Advisor at Plagiarism Advice


When?                                  24 March 2010
Where?                                 Headington School, Oxford
What time?                          10am - 3.30pm (lunch and refreshments included free of charge)

REGISTER NOW! Simply email Liz Parkin at JISC Collections for Schools (http://www.sla.org.uk/jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk)

The event will also provide an opportunity to meet the publishers of high-quality trusted online resources now available to all schools (state and independent), and to find out how to develop an online library that will support achievement and raise standards and will integrate with school learning platforms.

There is no charge for attendance and all refreshments are included.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis so book early to avoid disappointment.

Please email Liz Parkin at jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk  to book your place.

PROGRAMME
09:30                    Coffee and Registration
10:00                    Welcome, introductions and aims of the day
Joyce Martin (JISC Collections for Schools) and Sally Duncan (SLA)
10:10                    Content and context: The perfect combination!
Baldev Singh, Director of Education Strategy, Imagine Education Ltd (UK)
Save me time, create engaging lessons, create student centred learning opportunities are some of key issues for educators globally. These issues have to some extent been made more complicated by the rapid development in "disruptive" technologies (Web 2.0) which have contributed to content overload. This session explores how easy to find content with the right context supports educators to engage with technologies to make a difference to teaching and learning. The session will showcase how technology when linked with appropriate content could help save time and change pedagogy and support development of 21st century skills.
11:00                    Featured JCS online resource: The Guardian and Observer Digital Archive, Lucy Haire
11:10                    Using online resources in the classroom...
Julie Blake, author of ‘The Full English' and a Visiting Research Associate in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Kings College London
In this session we will explore the kinds of classroom activity and materials that can be generated with online resources, focusing specifically on the English curriculum, and on image galleries and historic newspapers.  How do these resources help us to meet the changing demands of the National Curriculum and the new A Level specifications?  To what extent do they change our understanding of the subject and the ways we might want to work within it?  As well as exploring these broader questions, we will also look at specific lesson resources created for teaching and learning about haikus and advertising, Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens.
11:50                   Featured JCS online resources from Hodder Education: Living Language and Literature Online and The Young Citizen's Passport Online, Kelly Gough
12:05                    Building an online library - the Headington approach...
Lynn Winkworth, Chartered Librarian, Headington School
This session will consider Headington's reasons for looking closely at online resources; how online resources widen their collections; the importance of online resources to the whole school community; publishing online resources to the whole school community; evaluating their usefulness and usage in line with curriculum requirements; and finally, budget justification.
12:30                    Lunch
13:20                    Featured online resource: Science Reference CenterTM, Costas Tsiamas
13:30                    Digital Literacy - what is it and why is it important?
Julie Blake
The word ‘literacy' has shifting and contested meanings, although the man on the Clapham Omnibus might define it as simple reading and writing. More recent definitions have widened the scope of that, arguing that it is about having access to the valued symbolic resources of a community, whatever they are, including but not limited to the written word.  Discussion of "digital literacy" can touch on this kind of idea, recognising that for young people to gain cultural capital in a world dominated by computers, they need literacy practices that go beyond a curriculum for reading and writing.  Alternatively, it is sometimes defined merely in terms of teaching young people where the "on" button is.  In this session we will explore how our understanding of "digital literacy" might shape the kinds of resources we make available to young people, and how we might want to support their use of those. 
13:50                    Featured online resource: Heinemann Video Gallery (Secondary)
Catherine Mortimer-Ford
14:00                    Integrating the library and the VLE to provide 21st century education
Sheila Compton, Librarian, Dame Alice Owen's School, Hertfordshire
This session will describe how online resources such as those from JISC Collections for Schools have been used with the English Department to give students a wide range of authentic information sources.
14:25                    Importance of using trusted sources
                              Anne Flood, Plagiarism Advice
14:45                    Featured online resource: Credo Reference, Anne Kail
15:00                    JISC Collections for Schools: benefitting learning, teaching and the school purse...
Joyce Martin, Programme Director, JISC Collections for Schools
15:30                    Close
Delegates are welcome to visit the Library with Lynn Winkworth at the close of the event.

 

 

 

 

 

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