Dear Digital Divide colleagues, I'd like to bring to your attention the International Association of School Librarianship conference to be held at the University of Hong Kong from 8-12 July this year. For those interested in the digital divide and education, there is a wealth of professional development available. The details can be found on the IASL website http://www.iasl-slo.org/conference2005.html and the program details on this page http://www.iasl-slo.org/conference2005-prog.html. You are most welcome to attend this stimulating conference.
There is a large range of international professional and research papers from countries such as Australia and NZ, PNG, Indonesia, Philippines, Botswana, South Africa, Croatia, USA, Argentina, Canada, Israel, India, Turkey, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. The keynote speaker is Stephen Heppel of Ultralab. Examples of the range of papers with more relevance to the digital divide include: * Building High School Teaching Material Resource Website in Taiwan * An evolving model of knowledge management in education and the South African reality: How knowledge management, information literacy and reading skills are informing learning at a high school and a primary school in Gauteng, South Africa. * Introducing the Information Literacy Model "Empowering Eight" in South Asia with special reference to India and Sri Lanka. * Use of ICT in Education in Botswana * Tools for Integrating Information Skills (Brazil) * Three modes of teaching Information literacy in school library (China) * Asynchronous communication technology and learning (HK) * Information Technology Adoption in Botswana Secondary Schools and its Implications for Information Leadership in a Culture of Change * Managing educational materials in electronic environment (Croatia) * Information leadership in a culture of change within the schools of the International Education Agency of PNG * Responding to the literacy challenge amidst resource-hungry realities: the case of Southern Mindanao, Philippines * Panel: Social responsibility: G. Brown, moderator (Canada); Humphrey (USA) Bringing the Middle East Culture to the world of Students; Stubbins and Singh (Malaysia/China) School libraries as instruments for the promotion of peace * Providing Content Rich Information Sources On The Web (Malaysia) * The litany of suffering is still heard but not louder: a case study of clinical supervision to school libraries in Indonesia's four provinces Please contact me or the conference organisers for further information. Kind regards, Elizabeth Elizabeth Greef IASL Regional Director for Oceania Head Librarian St Andrew's Cathedral School 474 Kent St Sydney PH: +61 2 9560 9074 FAX: +61 2 9261 8748 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
