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About brendamary

I work at two different Catholic primary schools, two days a week at each. So far I haven't ever gone to the wrong school! I'm purely Library Technician at St. Clement of Rome Bulleen, and Library and IT Technician at Sacred Heart Diamond Creek. My hobby is patchwork. My children are both at Uni., one doing a PhD, the other still an undergraduate.

Peter Cushing Lives in Whitstable

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My daughter showed me this. We’ve ordered the series from Amazon UK, we both like Stephen Fry.
There’s so much good stuff out there, which we can get so easily these days! Is this a good thing? We can so easily find things we like, and there are so many of them, that perhaps we’re not being exposed to things we didn’t know we liked. Back in prehistoric times, my school library was a book shelf, and for lack of anything else to read, I worked my way through Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia. I learned about lots of things I didn’t know existed.

What is blogging?

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What is a blog?
Blog is short for web log, it’s a diary or journal, published on the web. It can include text, images, videos, sounds, links to other websites, comments by readers, heaps of other stuff. It can be used as a communication tool with a class, the whole school or the whole world.
If you use the internet, you probably already read blogs, now we’re going to make one.

Let’s look at some blogs
The St Clement of Rome library blog is here
http://clementlibrary.globalstudent.org.au/

Here’s a good classroom blog – http://2kmblog.globalstudent.org.au/
When a parent asks “what did you do at school today?” and the answer is “nothing”, we can show them the truth!

Here’s one of my favorite personal blogs
http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/

This blog (the one you’re looking at now) was originally started when I did a course in Web 2.0 last year. There were 23 tasks in the course and we had to write on our blogs about all 23 of them. Check out the 23 things here.
If you want to read what I thought about them, look in the archives, starting in April 2008 and working forwards.
How do I get a blog?
Go to the Edublogs website
http://edublogs.org/
Click on SIGN UP HERE. Fill in the boxes and follow the instructions.

How do I build my blog?
There’s lots of information here :-
http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/
But mostly, you build it by playing with it!

The future of school libraries – no books?

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Here’s an article from the Times Educational Supplement.
Given that lots of schools are in the process of applying for money from the Federal Government for new libraries, perhaps we need to think very carefully about what type of libraries we want first.
I don’t like the idea of libraries without books. I’ve tried reading ebooks on my PDA, and I still prefer the paper version, but for train trips and doctor’s waiting rooms, ebooks are very convenient (until the battery goes flat).