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Curating history resources for students to discover — Napier
Part of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum content for school librarians series
Thursday 28 March 2024, 9:30am to 2:30pm
$10
Registrations close Wednesday 27 March, 12pm
Curating resources gives your students quicker access to your school library collections. Discover different ways to curate, share and add value to your Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum resources.
Who this workshop is for
This workshop is for primary, intermediate and secondary:
school library staff
teachers with library responsibility (TLRs).
What you'll learn
Understand: The importance of resources in curriculum delivery with a focus on the histories curriculum.
Know: Ways to curate, present, and share both print and digital resources.
Do: Use curation skills to add value and improve students’ access to resources.
What you'll do
In this workshop, you will:
focus on ways to select, organise and add value to your print and digital resources
explore how you might manage your community’s local history resources
create a digital curation using DigitalNZ to support a school inquiry topic
look at different ways students might discover your resources
identify and plan specific actions to take in your school library.
What's provided, what to bring
Morning tea is provided. Bring or buy your lunch.
Choose an Aotearoa New Zealand history book and a digital resource to bring and share.
Talk with your teachers to decide on a topic that you can use as the basis for a DigitalNZ story which you will create.
Create an account in DigitalNZ: Sign Up | DigitalNZ.
Bring along a digital device to use during the workshop.
Find out more or register
Registrations are closed.
For more information about this learning event, email Sara Neville at sara.neville@dia.govt.nz.
Curated resources. See ‘Image credits’ below.
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Image credits
School badge: Badge, Glenham School Golden Jubilee 1899–1948. Ref: WY.0000.656 eHive. CC-BY.
Laptop: Photo by Maxine Ramsay, National Library Services to Schools.
Books: Photo by Sally Thompson, National Library Services to Schools.
Poster: Joy of school holidays, tripping by train, ca 1940. Ref: Eph-E-RAIL-1940s-01 Alexander Turnbull Library.
Street sign: Avenue Road street sign, in Taranaki, 2012. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.
School concert: School concert for school funds, 1927 by Charles Mann. Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection, Auckland Libraries on DigitalNZ. No known copyright.