ASLA Online

Explore the impact of the digital agenda for school libr

Who should visit this site

If you are a school administrator, ICT coordinator, teacher librarian, library media specialist, school librarian, classroom teacher, student undertaking studies in school librarianship, school library academic or a school library consultant we invite you to be involved in ASLA Online.

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Welcome to ASLA Online

The Australian School Library Association (ASLA) hosted its third online virtual conference: Under Construction: A World Without Walls,during May 2008.

This ASLA Online site will continue to host discussions with the aim to bring together a range of educators to consider, discuss and explore the educational potential of a globally connected world.

With the availability of personal computing, the Internet, the World Wide Web and Web 2.0 tools, millions of people have become creators and sharers of information in a socially-networked, digital world. Global connectivity and collaboration is more than one-to-many; it is, potentially, the power-of-many.

Program and presenters from the ASLA Online Virtual Conference

The sub-themes of digital environments, digital literacy and digital pedagogy were the heart of the ASLA Online III Virtual Conference. For the three week program (5 to 26 May) delegates explored a host of topics that embrace online experiences, collaborative learning tools, teaching and learning practices, ethical practice and social responsibility.

Lead presenters for the ASLA Online III
Raylee Elliott Burns looked at a recombinant architecture approach to the design of learning spaces. Katina Zammit explored the concept of digital literacy within new modes of learning. Joyce Valenza challenged us to consider how the information skills used in tradition structures are merged with the skill set required to survive in the new information landscape.

Forum

WiZiQ free Virtual classroom

Started by Mark Cruthers in Web 2.0 Jun 14.

What does Web 2.0 mean 2 U? 1 Reply

Started by Karen Bonanno in Web 2.0. Last reply by Bronwyn Hughes May 6.

How can schools and school libraries respond to disruptive technologies? 5 Replies

Started by Ken Price in Web 2.0. Last reply by Kate May 5.

Blog Posts

Using blogs in education

I was very pleased with myself for getting a feed going from my del.icio.us page to my ASLAonline Ning page (adding aslaning as a tag) after our discussions in the digital literacy strand of the conference. I mentioned one link in particular and then found I had to delete that as there seemed to be some problem with the page, or my link, or whatever. So here is a summary of the page not in my feed anymore: "How you should use blogs in education" by … Continue

Posted by Marita Thomson on May 18th, 2008 at 11:58pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Friday and things are hotting up!

Once Doctor Who is over, there is little to tempt me away from the computer on a Friday night, so I have been spending some quality time at the conference. While it has taken a few days for people to get stuck in, (perhaps because no-one wants to be the over-eager student at the front of the class whose hand is constantly oscillating to the refrain of "I know the answer!/ I have a question!/ Pick me!!") over the last 24 hours the number of forum messages have obviously reached the tipping point… Continue

Posted by Kate on May 9th, 2008 at 10:26pm — No Comments (Add)

Check out my blog @ Edublogs

I have started and educational blog @ Edublogs to help explain and inform students and staff about new technology in a friendly and easygoing manner. You are welcome to check it out @ http://mshslibrary.edublogs.org/ I welcome any comments & suggestions as I am still learning to be a blogger. I am also Twittering (bhugh36) and would be interested to follow any TLs out there who also Twitter.

Posted by Bronwyn Hughes on May 6th, 2008 at 1:29pm — No Comments (Add)

It's Monday, and I don't know where to start!

Well, I read the papers over the weekend, snatching a few minutes here and there to note my thoughts while trying to deter various offspring from interrupting my flow... with varying levels of success (deja vu - it's post-grad all over again!!) So much food for thought - some great ideas, cautionary tales, even contradictory approaches - but that gels with my experiences in the real world. At the moment the paper that is particularly well-timed is Pru Mitchell's discussion of professional le… Continue

Posted by Kate on May 5th, 2008 at 3:54pm — No Comments (Add)

It's Friday, I feel fine!

I have a printed and bound set of conference papers in my bag, I've skimmed the abstracts for the first strand and have read Raylee's introductory paper. I have no idea how I shall find time to read all the forum discussions over the next few weeks, but I guess there were no interesting programs scheduled on idiot box anyway :> I'm looking forward to learning with all the conference participants and bouncing ideas around to formulate and refine my own understandings of approaches to digital l… Continue

Posted by Kate on May 2nd, 2008 at 1:54pm — 2 Comments (Add)