1. Why would you have a Library blog?
Kim Yeomans – St Martin of Tours, Rosanna
St Martin of Tours LRC Blog

2. Our school Our LRC Blog helps us to
community
make connections… Students/classes
within in our school
Authors &
Illustrators
A global
community
Other school
libraries Other schools
& teachers

3. Encourage
writing –
Raise the
comments,
LRC profile
Promote blog posts,
books and Ripper Reads Introduce
reading Web 2.0
Tools
Our LRC Blog
Flatten our
LRC walls
enables me to … Share
student
work
Communicate Teach
with authors Resource & Cybersafety
& illustrators teach units & blog
of work etiquette

4. Our students’ reasons for why your school should have a Library Blog…
Dear All The people that are reading
this…..
Dear Miss Y
We think your library should have a blog Our Blog is part of our school. It says
because things about the LRC and some things
about our school Saint martins Of Tours.
You can find out what’s new in the LRC There are some things from the children
because we only have library once a week here and our teacher is so awesome. Our
You can go on the LRC blog to find out things blog is really exciting because when you
You can find out more about new books check it every week there is always
You can watch videos something new.
You can visit websites about your favourite So if you want a blog or you are thinking
books about it get one. It is so cool for the
You can see things that other grades have world to see!
done from Emily O 4V
You can see how many visitors we have had
You can find out when new books are coming
out Hi Miss Y,
We can send comments to Miss Y I like our LRC blog because I think
From 3BY it sets apart our LRC from others.
It is also a great way to keep in
touch with others that’s easy.
From, Connor

5. Web 2 Tools I use…
Animoto Fotobabble
PhotoPeach
Slideshare

6. Audio Boo
Web 2 Tools I use…
Poll Daddy ToonDoo
Photo Peach - Quiz
Voki

7. Creating your Library blog
Global 2
Global2 (formerly Globalteacher) is an Edublog campus site which means these
sites are ad free and have other features not available on standard Edublogs blogs
Getting Started with Global2 Blogs
Edublogs
Education blogs for students, teachers and institutions. Free and paid blogs
Getting started with Edublogs
Edublogs Teacher Challenge – take yourself step by step through this challenge

8. Useful websites
Integrating Technology in the Classroom – Kathleen Morris
Teaching Generation Now Subscribe to their Tech Tools for Teachers newsletter
Develop a Personal Learning network (PLN)
Personal Learning Network – with SLAV and SLV. Join it next year and develop
your own PLN
Dear Teacher who wasn’t on Twitter by Edna Sackson (@whatedsaid)
Join Twitter – the best staffroom in the world!

9. As librarians, we cannot assume that other people will ever
value the library like we do unless we are out there
constantly promoting and publicising what the library does.