Gamify Your Library With Michelle Simms

Michelle Simms speaking at Kerikeri High School

We were very lucky to get Michelle Simms from Te Totara Primary School to present to SLANZA Te Tai Tokerau members last Saturday at Kerikeri High School.  Librarians and teachers arrived from far and wide to attend.

The first session was on Gamify your Library which Michelle presented to the SLANZA conference in 2013.  This is not using games in your Library but rather building on the appeal of games to create an engaging and dynamic Library.  Michelle had lots of ideas of promotions which could be adapted for your Library.  Here are just some of them:

·         A Genre quiz
·         Blind date with a book
·         A customised Monopoly game
·         A novel murder
·         Reading Bingo
·         A reading quest

After a yummy morning tea with Di Eastwood’s date scones, we convened for the second session of Virtual Librarian with some ideas for online tools and apps for your Library.  Whilst I was familiar with blogs, Facebook, Pinterest (a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas), Symbaloo (Access your bookmarks anywhere), Livebinders (Organise your resources in an online binder), Weebly (a web hosting service that gives you an easy way to create a website), I hadn’t heard about Pond http://www.n4l.co.nz/pond/,the network for Leaning portal which is just being rolled out but this sounds like a place which we will all become familiar.

The last session was on the pros and cons and process of Genrification.  Whilst this could be organising your entire Library into genres, in most schools this has been organising your Fiction section into Genres rather than by the authors’ surname.  I think this is an interesting idea and I am keeping an open mind on it. 

We concluded with lunch of home-made soup and freshly baked bread and a raffle for some donated books.  I think we all walked away happy with our choice.

Thanks are due to Michelle Simms, Te Totara Primary School, Jeannie Skinner, National Library and Julia Smith from Kerikeri High School for an interesting and informative morning.

Dee Brooker

For more detail on these sessions, here is the link to Michelle’s presentations http://www.slideshare.net/spaceace40

Collected magazine is out now

Here is a message from our own Lisa Salter who has done an amazing job of editing this magazine.

Collected Magazine out now!

The first issue of this year is on the virtual shelf now with the theme of Modern Learning Environments and how they are changing thinking and opening conversations around school library service provisions. Open your minds and learn more about this concept before you NEED to know.  

We have plenty of book reviews from fellow school librarians who know what works in their schools.  

We are fortunate to have the support of our Business members and their contributions will keep you abreast of the latest commercial offerings.  

Check out what is happening in your region and have a look at what is being offered in others.

Members are encouraged to attend events in other regions or to support their local committee in bringing good ideas to their own area.

Please feel free to share the magazine, we would appreciate if you could print one out and share in your staffroom or forward to your teaching team.

Thank you for all the quality contributions and assistance in editing.  Final appreciation goes to the Pool of Talent team of proof readers.

 

Lisa Salter

Editor

SLANZA Collected Magazine

Links to Michelle Simms' presentations

Just a quick post until the report and photos of the Saturday event are added here to share the link to Michelle Simms' three presentations, kindly available from her on Slideshare.

http://www.slideshare.net/spaceace40

SLANZA event - Gamify the Library - Saturday 21 June - Kerikeri High School

It's not too late to register for this wonderful PD.  Email Julia at JSmith@kerikerihigh.ac.nz

Nominations are now open for the position of President Elect

5 June 2014

 

Good afternoon SLANZA members,

 

The National Executive of SLANZA wishes to announce that nominations are open for the position of President Elect.  

 

We also wish to announce that the current National Executive is nominating Miriam Tuohy, currently the National Executive Representative for the Central Region as our nominee for this position.  

 

If there is a member of SLANZA who wishes to nominate and run against the NE nominee this would mean an election would have to be held, as the President Elect will take up the position at the AGM in July, details of which you were sent yesterday.  If this is the case we will need to receive the nomination by the date indicated on the form below, and it should be sent to Carole Gardiner our administrative officer.

 

Yours,

Bridget Schaumann

sc@kingshigh.school.nz

 

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Bridget Schaumann

President 

School Library Association of New Zealand

Nomination of President Elect for the term 2014-2015

SLANZA National Executive is calling for nominations for the position of President Elect.

 

The President Elect is the person who will become the next President of SLANZA from July 2015 till July 2017, or earlier in the circumstances that the current President is unable to complete the term of office.

 

This position requires an in-depth understanding of the workings of SLANZA and its stakeholders so it is preferable that this person should be either a current member of the National Executive or someone with previous National Executive experience.

 

Nominations close with the Admin Officer, SLANZA at 5pm on Monday 16 June 2014.

Nominations can be emailed in the first instance to:   admin@slanza.org.nz or if necessary posted to:  Returning Officer, SLANZA, PO Box 27-321, Marion Square, Wellington 6141.

 

Please complete a separate form for each nomination.

 

Name of Nominee:

SLANZA member number:

School:

Position:

Phone number:

Email:

 

 

Name of Nominator:	Name of Seconder:
SLANZA member number:	SLANZA member number:
School:	School:
Position:	Position
Phone number:	Phone number:
Email:	Email:

 

Having been nominated, I agree to submit autobiographical notes, a personal statement (of not more than 150 words) and a current photograph, which may be circulated to voters with the voting papers in the event of an election.

 

Signature (Nominee): ……………………………………………………                Date ………………………………….

* Please ensure spelling of Nominee’s name, and all other details are entered correctly.

2014 SLANZA AGM

Attention SLANZA members – Notice of 2014 AGM

The 2014 SLANZA AGM will be held in Dunedin at the King’s High School Library on Saturday 5th July at 12.15pm, as part of the SLANZA Otago Weekend School.

While it is expected that most people wanting to attend the AGM would also be registering for the Weekend School, it is not essential and you are welcome to attend just the AGM if that is your preference.

Please send any apologies for the AGM to admin@slanza.org.nz<mailto:admin@slanza.org.nz> before Wednesday 2nd July.

Regards,
Carole Gardiner
Administration Officer

SLANZA
School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
Te Puna Whare Mātauranga a Kura
P O Box 27321
Marion Square
Wellington 6141
www.slanza.org.nz