Earth Hour 2022

This year Earth Hour has partnered with Cool Australia to create an extensive curriculum toolkit. Teachers can download lesson plans, digital worksheets, Smartboard activities and a host of other resources to teach lessons that will last a lifetime.

Earth Hour is a WWF-Australia initiative, and is the world’s largest community-driven climate change campaign. At the center of Earth Hour is switching off lights to show a commitment to taking action. Thousands of teachers use Earth Hour’s education program to enrich their curriculum and provide pathways for young people to create change in their world.

Download the Earth Hour starter kit for your school: Earth Hour for Schools  and check out the link below for a range of curriculum ideas and activities. 

https://www.coolaustralia.org/unit/earth-hour-primary

National Science Week 2018

https://www.scienceweek.net.au/

 Next week 11^th-19^th August is National Science Week 2018.

The school theme is: ‘Game Changers & Changemakers”

And it is also the:

·        International Year of the Reef    (Coral reefs and the scientists who study them)

·        200^th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’

·        40^th Anniversary of the first IVF Baby

Plus you have the opportunity to become a Virtual Reef Diver.  You are invited to become a citizen scientist and help to analyse thousands of underwater images of the Great Barrier Reef

Check out the link above and see what else is happening.  

New LMS is Go Live!

Well, finally the day is here.  Our new Library Management system in the Northern Territory  is actually Go Live in the schools.

I have made my first student loan using the system and all worked as it should.  (Phew!)  We have a little bit of a work-around at the moment due to some student data - but it's not making much of a difference.

Now comes the real learning - as this becomes the everyday system.  It's a little sad after 20 years of using Virtua - but this system more aptly reflects the global aspect of libraries in today's world.

New Library Management System update

Well all our bibliographic data came across with just 1 error, which has now been fixed .. and they let me fix it!!  (I'm not too sure if it was because they really trusted me to do it - or they wanted to see just how badly I could stuff it up.)  All good though!

As predicted, there were problems with the transfer of the Patron data and very few of the students are on the system as yet.  I have added all staff myself but we are waiting on the upload of the students minimal information to allow them to borrow.  

Most of the schools are in the same boat - which from my point of view is a GOOD thing - because it means it wasn't something that I did - or didn't do - that slowed it all down.  
If all goes well, we could be operational by the beginning of next week.

Mrs Squires has also been added as an Admin user, so she will be able to use the Circulation section if I am not available.  Thank you Kirsteen for agreeing to do this.

If anyone has any queries about the new system, please don't hesitate to ask - hopefully I will have an answer for you.