Spring is Sprung

In response to the nice sunny weather, the longer balming days and the occasional howling winds, I have organised a gardening display to inspire you in the garden.

Here is the list of resources

on display. Happy gardening !!!

Water wise gardening

• Design for water : rainwater harvesting, stormwater catchment, and alternate water reuse
• Waterwise gardening
  

Sustainable gardening

• No-dig gardening : how to create an instant, low-maintenance garden
• Grow organic, cook organic : natural food from garden to table, with over 1700 photographs
• Paradise in Your Garden: smart Permaculture Design
  

Garden Design

• Australian planting design
• The room outside : designing your perfect outdoor living space
• The natural Australian Garden by Gordon ford with Gwen Ford
  

Hard slog Gardening

• Gardening down-under : a guide to healthier soils and plants
• Botany for gardeners
• The Constant gardenerFood plants of the world : an illustrated guide
• The complete book of fruit growing in Australia
• How to propagate : techniques and tips for over 1000 plants
• Fruit & vegetable gardening in Australia

We also get some great Gardening Magazines

Gardening Australia October has an article called Colour unlimited all about hibiscus

Burkes Backyard September features an article on Organic Vegies; how to get started and a Spring planting guide

Good Health October 2008 talks about how to beat Spring allergies ( so their ain't no excuse for getting out there)

If you prefer to get your plant info from the web the library quicklinks has also got some good websites you can follow up.

http://intranet.rit.tafensw.edu.au/library/quicklinks/show_topic.asp?TopicId=24#507

Jenny H

Deni Tafe Library National reading day survey 2008

Some of our students and staff show their favourite reading material.

The results of the survey can be seen in the table at the wiki
http://denitafelibrarywhatsnewfeb2008.wikispaces.com/reading+survey+September2008

There were 36 Respondents to the reading survey.
The thing most people had been reading on the day of the survey was work or study related, with an occasional novel or newspaper thrown in. I loved the fact that some people had obviously been reading story books to their kids , very important for encouraging reading. (The play on nursery rhymes book “ Each Peach Pear Plumb” is one of my all time favourites kids books). The favourite books were also a mixture with some people enjoying poetry, a special author such as Isabelle Allende , Coban, Bryce Courtney or a series. A number of the same magazines popped up. People seemed to like magazines with either a car or home themes. “Better Homes and Gardens” could be a good one to get for the library. By far the most popular newspaper was the Deniliquin Pastoral Times. Even people who said they didn’t read, read that. The Herald sun was the next most read paper but people obviously loved the local news best. The choice of Websites was also interesting, some people couldn’t decide. Some people never looked at the internet, where as others had definite favourites. Google was an obvious one. A few people liked the communication websites such as Face book and Myspace and a few loved the shopping website Ebay. I daresay many liked to talk and shop and read at the same time. Anything is possible on the net.

It certainly is interesting to see what people like to read and how much reading is part of our every day lives often without us even realising. Occasionally I would have to prompt people when they said they had read nothing that day but were at a computer checking their emails. Thanks to everyone for participating in National Reading day (http://nationalreadingday.nlnw.edu.au/). National reading day is an important reminder of what an essential survival tool in the modern world reading is. As the United nations reported when launching the Literacy decade, many people in the world today still cannot read or write.
http://www.drh-movement.org/Articel.asp?NewsID=100

Adult Learners Week 2008

I have put together a list of resources that might be inspiring for both teachers of adult learners and the learners themselves. Hopefully we can all learn something by browsing through some of these resources.

Teaching Skills

• Teachers who change lives – leading Australian educationists Andrew Metcalfe and Ann game cast new light on the processes of teaching and learning


• Inspiring active learning : a handbook for teachers – commonsense strategies to motivate students to become active learners •


• Teaching problem solving in vocational education Rebecca Sodden argues that thinking skills are most effectively developed along with vocational competencies and offers novel but practical strategies for lessons


• The Adult learner at work ( a comprehensive guide to the psychology and methods of learning for the workplace


• How to teach reading : when you're not a reading teacher - Discover ways that you can:- develop effective lessons to help your students increase academic vocabulary, comprehension skills, and fluency in your content- create a risk-free environment and increase student achievement- select fun and effective ways to engage all of your students in comprehension and vocabulary instruction- respond to your struggling readers by increasing engagement and adapting classroom practice


• Learning in adulthood : a comprehensive guide – looks at most recent research in Adult Education • Dimensions of adult learning : adult education and training in a global era


• How to teach adults in a fun and exciting way by Doug Malouf


• Becoming a Critically reflective teacher by stephen Brookfield

Learning with Technology

• Educating the net Generation: how to engage students in the 21st century•


• E-learning:m teaching and professional development with the internet•


• Blogs, wikis Podcasts and other powerful Web tools for classrooms


• Online learning and Teaching with technology
  

Education

• Fifty modern thinkers on education : from Piaget to the present

Study Skills

• Study smart : a guide to successful study at TAFE – looks at everything for effective study for tafe students from time management to taking


• Study secrets ; everything your lectures will never tell you – looks at effective study methods