Nibbs, Diane

Slinger, Nicole

Ziebell, Tanya

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Professional Development: UQL Cyberschool Update for 2013 
On Monday, 22 April the UQL Cyberschool held its half­
day Update. This free, professional development event 
is run for teacher-librarians, heads of departments 
including IT, and teachers. This year, attendees 
heard presentations delivered by UQ practitioners 
on educational and innovative technology at the UQ 
Library, and attended demonstrations given by database 
vendors who showcased new online products. 
University Librarian Bob Gerrity welcomed the attendees 
and introduced the first speaker, Professor Phil Long, 
Director of the Centre for Educational Innovation and 
Technology. Professor Long delivered an informative 
and stimulating session on the development of MOOCS 
(Massive Open Online Courses). The next speaker, 
Majella Pugh, Associate Director, Collections and 
Information Resources, spoke about developments in 
eBooks at The University of Queensland Library. She 
also discussed some eBook models for patron-driven 
acquisition and shared UQ Library's experience with 
these. 
At the conclusion of the presentations attendees broke 
into groups to attend workshops on various databases 
of relevance to the school curriculum, including: 
ESBCO eBook Collections, Britannica Digital Learning, 
Gale Cengage GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library), 
Library Webs, World Book Online and Warner Books 
(Infobase). Other database vendors had provided 
material to distribute to attendees on Aldis (Turnitin), 
Oxford Online, Project Muse (The John Hopkins Guide 
to Literary Theory and Criticism), WebLinks, JSTOR and 
Macquarie Dictionary. 
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The feedback on the afternoon was very positive and 
included comments such as "Excellent day - very 
impressed", "Love coming back to UQ!", "Great sessions 
- found out a lot of new features of databases", "Very 
much enjoyed hearing about MOOCS," and "Found the 
eBook presentation very interesting". 
The UQL Cyberschool would like to thank all involved 
in the event including speakers, presenters, sponsors 
and UQ Library colleagues. Thank you to the attendees 
whose active participation on the day enriched the 
experience. Your feedback was appreciated and we look 
forward to seeing you again. We are already planning 
another professional development activity and hope 
you can attend. 
Date claimer: The next PD activity on our 2013 
calendar is the biennial Cyberschool Seminar, which 
is usually held at The Women's College, UQ St Lucia 
Campus. The expected date for the event is Friday, 13 
September. Secondary school teacher-librarians, heads 
of departments (including in IT), principals, deputy 
principals and teachers are welcome to attend. Further 
information and invitations will be available from the 
UQL Cyberschool website at http://www.library.uq.edu. 
au/services-for/services-for-secondary-schools. If you 
have any questions about this event please do not 
hesitate to contact the UQL Cyberschool team. 
Tanya Ziebell, Nicole Slinger and Diane Nibbs 
UQL Cyberschool 


UQL Cyberschool Update for 2013

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