School Libraries Workshop 11 October 2008

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 26 Sep, 2008

The School Libraries and Youth Services Interest Group of LIASA (Library and Information Association of South Africa) is holding a workshop on Saturday 11 October 2008 at Cape Town High School.

The theme is "From local to global @ your library"

Interested?  Please contact Theresa Bergsma at (021) 957 9638 or Khosi Mabandla at (021) 900 7013.

The programme is below:

 

08:00-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:30

“From local to global @ your library” inspired by the story of Neal Petersen, famous South African yachtsman and a brave librarian

09:30-10:00

QIDS UP: a boost for school libraries in the Western Cape

10:00-10:30

TEA

10:30-11:45

The National School Library Policy – A panel discussion

11:45-12:00

Exhibitors’ forum

12:00-13:00

LUNCH

13:00-14:00

Parallel break away sessions

 

·         Information Literacy Skills

·         Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

·         Literacy and Reading, foundations for learning

·         Copyright and school libraries

14:00 – 14:15

Closure
 

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8th Regional Education Students' Research Conference @ UCT

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 23 Sep, 2008

The 8th Regional Education Students' Research Conference, co-ordinated by the School of Education at UCT, and arranged by the 2008 Organising Committee.   Over 120 B.Ed, Honours, Masters, Doctoral and post-doctoral students from UCT, US, UWC and CPUT will present their current research projects to each other.

When:  Friday 3rd October and Saturday 4th October 2008

Where:  Graduate School of Humanities, UCT

Registration:  R50-00

For more information:  email researchevent@gmail.com

 

 

 

 


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New York Times Magazine Education Supplement

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 23 Sep, 2008

The Fall issue, with the theme "It's all about the teaching" is now available.

 From the description on the NYT page: -

"Does teaching make you a bad writer? Could it make you a good president? How would you teach on YouTube? How would you teach in Dubai? How can you teach with ... style? From Alaska to Alabama to the Persian Gulf, we look at the mysteries of teaching in all its variety. Words aside, however, the look of this issue is all-student: headline type, photographs and illustrations are all the work of undergraduate and graduate students from across the country, and a few from overseas as well. "

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Articles on Higher Education in S/Times

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 22 Sep, 2008

Two articles related to Higher Education spotted in the Sunday Times (21 September 2008)

The first article, headlined "Universities must earn their funding", written by Adam Habib says the formula for awarding money for research ought to encourage intervarsity competition.   Read the rest of the article here.   

The second article is an opinion piece by  Solani Ngobeni (academic book publisher and 2007 South African finalist in the International Young Publisher of the Year Award) says while some top black academics publish ground-breaking studies, many PhDs can’t even construct a sentence, writes Solani Ngobeni

 

 

 

 

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Trial Access to OECDSource (especially for Education)

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 18 Sep, 2008
UCT has trial access to SourceOECD, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development's online portal for their online journals, books, reports and statistical databases, until 16 October 2008. There is a link to the database on the Trials web page at
 
 
" SourceOECD is the online portal to all the OECD’s books, periodicals, statistics and databases. It comprises of thematic book collections, periodicals, reference titles, OECD statistical databases and International Energy Agency (IEA) statistical databases – all in full text. An interesting page to visit is the Hot Topics page  to see OECD documents, key reports, multimedia and articles from the world's media on key global issues such as Development and Africa and Agriculture and Biofuels. "
 
Some of the titles  which you have access to in terms of this trial, (fulltext, pdfs) include:-
*   Reviews of National Policies for Education, South Africa  (print copy on order)
*   Trends Shaping Education  2008  (print copy on order)
*   Education at a glance 2008:  OECD Indicators  (print copy on order)
as well as various publications on PISA

Please let Caroline Dean have feedback and recommendations  (caroline.dean at uct.ac.za)
 

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World AIDS Day Map - useful resource for teaching

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 6 Sep, 2008
From the latest Scout Report :
 
Created by Lex Talkington Design, Inc.  World AIDS Day Map is a "visually stimulating and engaging website takes visitors into the AIDS pandemic and how it has affected children throughout the developing world. After a brief introduction, visitors will be presented with a rotating series of images that profile different children from Thailand, India, Kenya, and a host of other places. Upon clicking each icon, visitors can then read short narratives about young people like Fred in Uganda, who at age eight became the primary caregiver for his younger brother after his parents both succumbed to AIDS. All told, the site contains over two dozen profiles that offer unique, albeit troubling, portraits of the struggles faced by young people who are coping with the increasingly widespread effects of this disease. "

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Room 13 opens at Kewtown Primary (Art Education)

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 4 Sep, 2008

Spotted on BizCommunity.com

Room 13  ...  "recently opened at the Kewtown Primary School, Athlone, Cape Town.  Room 13 is literally a room where young children, often attending underprivileged schools with no extra-mural programmes whatsoever, are given the opportunity to express themselves artistically and in a non-academic way"  

Room 13 started out in Scotland at the Caol Primary School when primary school learners wanted an art room of their own.    From there is has developed into an international network.  Four studios are already situated in KwaZulu-Natal, two in Mpumalanga, two in Soweto and the Free State.

Quoting from Room 13's website:

"Room 13 has gained an international reputation for good practice in the field of arts education. This is largely based on the well publicised work of our Primary School studios, where the combination of professional arts practice, philosophy and business management has been regarded as “ground-breaking” and “exceptional.”

 

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Concerns about the state of SA Education

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 4 Sep, 2008

SABC reports that the common message emanating from a debate on challenges facing HE was that the state of the education and the entire management of schools leaves much to be desired. 

ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe and Unisa Vice Chancellor Barney Pityana addressed the debate at the University of Johannesburg, which was hosted by the Platform for Public Deliberation.  

During the debate. Pityana said, 14 years on in democracy, South Africa was still struggling in the school system. Though in budgetary terms it was well resourced there was no culture of learningand teaching.

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Invitation to Biblionef Symposium

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 3 Sep, 2008

Biblionef has been donating books to schools and communities for the last 10 years. In celebration of this, a symposium focussing on Childrens' Literacy and Reading Programmes has been arranged for Tuesday 16th September at Goudini Spa in Rawsonville.

Speakers include Gcina Mhlophe, Dianne Case, Snoeks Desmond and our own Carole Bloch from PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa).

RSVP by 8 September 2008 to bibsa at iafrica.com or ring them on 021 5310441

Goudini Spa is offering specially discounted accommodation for those wishing to stay over.

 

Here is the programme:-

9:00-10:00 Arrival, Registration, Tea/Coffee

10:00-10:10 Opening: Herman Bailey (President Biblionef SA)

10:10-10:40 Exploring the impact of access and use of reading resources on South African learner’s achievement in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2006: Lisa Zimmerman (Centre for Evaluation and Assessment, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria)

10:40-11:10 Creating literate school communities: thoughts and strategies: Dr Carole Bloch

(Coordinator: PRAESA Early Literacy Unit)

11:10-11:30 The holistic development of the child: Reading, Running and wRiting: Anna

Brom (Anna Foundation)

11:30-11:40 Stretch break

11:40-12:10 The Book Box Project: promoting reading and related activities: Jean Place (School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand)

12:10-12:30 Families also need books: Snoeks Desmond (Founder: Family Literacy Project)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Experiencing Biblionef’s work in other countries

Dominique Pace (Biblionef France)

Aagje van Heekeren (Biblionef The Netherlands)

Marc van Hoey (Biblionef Vlaanderen)

Soearnie Soekirno (Biblionef Suriname)

14:30-14:40 My synergy as a writer with Biblionef Diane Case (Author)

14:40-15:10 My experiences with books in the Home Language Project: Margie Owen-Smith (Home Language Project)

15:10-15:30 Biblionef’s role in establishing Irista Primary School’s Library (Jean Williams Biblionef South Africa) and Archie Jansen (Principlal Irista Primary)

15:30-16:00 Celebrating WORDS – Languages’ ancestors: Gcina Mhlophe

16:00 Closing remarks and invitation to celebrate: Thomas van der Walt (Department

of Information Science, University of South Africa)

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16:00-17:30 Cocktail celebration

Drinks

Finger buffet

Marimba band

Children performing

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