Help promote libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKC) as the natural home for budding artists and scientists. The 2018 Fun Palace at State Library of Queensland (State Library) is being delivered at The Edge on the 6 October from 10am-3pm and we want to offer a unique professional development (PD) opportunity to four public library … Read more
In this three part blog series ‘Educational Technology’, Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion, Emily de la Pena answers her question, ‘If I had $2000 to spend on educational technology, what would I buy to get the most out of it?’ Emily has been visiting regional libraries around Queensland delivering coding and robotics training to library … Read more
In this three part blog series ‘Educational Technology’, Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion, Emily de la Pena answers her question, ‘If I had $2000 to spend on educational technology, what would I buy to get the most out of it?’ Emily has been visiting regional libraries around Queensland delivering coding and robotics training to library … Read more
Burdekin residents young and old got to discover and explore new ways to use their iPads for art-making, photography and teaching over four free workshops at Burdekin Library. Cathy Hunt from Brisbane’s iPad Art Room visited the Burdekin to conduct the amazing free workshops for Burdekin residents. Local educators attended a professional development workshop on … Read more
The draft 2018 Technology Standard has been revised under the guidance of a Review Panel and it is now time for wider consultation. Image by methodshop.com (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Technology Standard is intended to assist councils to evaluate current services, develop best practice for service delivery and plan for future needs. With the use of technology … Read more
Students who have benefitted from STEM.I.AM activities can now build on their coding and robotics skills by entering the Premier’s Creating Queensland’s Future coding competition. Winners will take home a share in $5,000 worth of technology prizes, e.g. humanoid robot, an Arduino Kit, a Raspberry PI powered computer and more! Who can enter? Students from … Read more
Cairns Libraries held a Minecraft Hour of Code session at the Edmonton library as part of their Samsung STEM engagement program on Tuesday 20th February, and State Library of Queensland staff supported the event. In partnership with Headspace Cairns and Cairns Minecraft, the program runs across the region until 19th June, teaching kids aged 8-15 … Read more
Are you looking for ways to add more value to your library service in 2018? Librarians Jane Cowell, Laurinda Thomas and Stephen Abram share their visions on library trends in a blog post published in Princh. Laurinda Thomas explains that “we need to shove our way into spaces that we don’t control, but that are … Read more
Skilling Our Future PD – Darling Downs & Southwest Queensland Following the success of last year’s Robotics Roadshow, SLQ is partnering with Regional Development Australia Darling Downs Southwest (RDA DDSW) to help regional libraries continue building skills in delivering Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) programs to their communities. This year’s program will kick … Read more
Deadly Digital Communities (DDC) is a new digital literacy program which is being delivered to Queensland’s remote and regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Indigenous Knowledge Centres (IKCs) and selected public libraries are facilitating the program whereby participants can learn about everything from searching the internal to using social media. Townsville City Libraries is … Read more
