Audrey Nay has been teaching, and learning, for many decades. Over the many years she has taught in many roles and filled executive roles in a variety of schools including a large Catholic primary school in Sydney and also on the Central Coast. After retiring to have her family of five, she worked as a casual teacher in a library, a special education unit and general classrooms.
Audrey commenced as a casual with the Department of Education in 1992 teaching at various small schools, Premer, Tambar Springs, Spring Ridge, Wallabadah Mission School and then moving over to the Mid North Coast in 1995 she continued casual at various local schools, but mostly at Sandy Beach.
In 2000 Audrey was invited to teach in the Sandy Beach Public school library and therefore chose to commence her graduate studies at CSU and also joined the NSW TL listserv. In 2008 she was selected to attend a ten day Summer School in Geelong on the new Australian English Curriculum. In 2010 she was very excited to have a lovely new learning space for her school community thanks to BER. In 2010 Audrey found twitter and joined the twits @audrey_nay. In 2011 Audrey found Yammer (trial) and set up various groups, including the Library Matters Group. Audrey enjoyed the experience of an online mentor role with eGATs during 2012. Audrey has presented at a number of Teacher Librarian network conferences including, Murwillumbah, Ballina, Sandy Beach, Dubbo, Perth & MANTLE.
Audrey was awarded a High Achieving Technology Award through Pathways for Learning Anywhere, anytime-a Network for Educators (PLANE) in 2012 and was subsequently invited to a two day festival of Learning in Sydney.
After sharing the role as computer coordinator as well as teacher librarian for some years Audrey replaced the ICT RFF teacher in mid-2013. Audrey was a regional member for the NSW School Library Association over a number of years.
In 2017 Audrey received a World Teacher’s Day Award from the College of Australian Educators. Currently Audrey is on leave and in the process of moving to Newcastle to be close to her family.
Workshop One: Primary and High School Teacher Librarians
Reach Out: Beyond Your Library Walls
Together we will reflect on what school libraries offer now within the library walls. Are there some important things missing? What is out there to add value? To add support? To add advice? To inform? To add equity?
We will explore why teacher librarians should reach out beyond our library walls. What good quality and easy to access stuff can you find, and also direct your learning community to? and how you will share this?
I will share various tools that many school libraries are already using to reach out. You can consider which of the tools may work best to communicate to your school learning community, remembering that communication is not a one way street.
Have you developed a strong professional learning network to help support you? If not , it is time to reach out as there are so many places to offer new ideas, advice and understanding these days…We will investigate a number of places I have found to be of great support.
Workshop Two
Develop Digital Intelligence for school learning communities.
Are you digitally literate? Are you a good digital citizen?
If you are: that is no longer enough!
You now need to be fully equipped to thrive as a responsible member of the online world, and to be confident in handling the challenges and demands of the digital era.
What is your Digital Intelligence quotient? (DQ)
Are you, your students, your staff and your parents/carers ready for the future ahead?
Together we will explore the eight subsections of digital intelligence that cover social, emotional, and cognitive abilities essential to digital life.
Audrey commenced as a casual with the Department of Education in 1992 teaching at various small schools, Premer, Tambar Springs, Spring Ridge, Wallabadah Mission School and then moving over to the Mid North Coast in 1995 she continued casual at various local schools, but mostly at Sandy Beach.
In 2000 Audrey was invited to teach in the Sandy Beach Public school library and therefore chose to commence her graduate studies at CSU and also joined the NSW TL listserv. In 2008 she was selected to attend a ten day Summer School in Geelong on the new Australian English Curriculum. In 2010 she was very excited to have a lovely new learning space for her school community thanks to BER. In 2010 Audrey found twitter and joined the twits @audrey_nay. In 2011 Audrey found Yammer (trial) and set up various groups, including the Library Matters Group. Audrey enjoyed the experience of an online mentor role with eGATs during 2012. Audrey has presented at a number of Teacher Librarian network conferences including, Murwillumbah, Ballina, Sandy Beach, Dubbo, Perth & MANTLE.
Audrey was awarded a High Achieving Technology Award through Pathways for Learning Anywhere, anytime-a Network for Educators (PLANE) in 2012 and was subsequently invited to a two day festival of Learning in Sydney.
After sharing the role as computer coordinator as well as teacher librarian for some years Audrey replaced the ICT RFF teacher in mid-2013. Audrey was a regional member for the NSW School Library Association over a number of years.
In 2017 Audrey received a World Teacher’s Day Award from the College of Australian Educators. Currently Audrey is on leave and in the process of moving to Newcastle to be close to her family.
Workshop One: Primary and High School Teacher Librarians
Reach Out: Beyond Your Library Walls
Together we will reflect on what school libraries offer now within the library walls. Are there some important things missing? What is out there to add value? To add support? To add advice? To inform? To add equity?
We will explore why teacher librarians should reach out beyond our library walls. What good quality and easy to access stuff can you find, and also direct your learning community to? and how you will share this?
I will share various tools that many school libraries are already using to reach out. You can consider which of the tools may work best to communicate to your school learning community, remembering that communication is not a one way street.
Have you developed a strong professional learning network to help support you? If not , it is time to reach out as there are so many places to offer new ideas, advice and understanding these days…We will investigate a number of places I have found to be of great support.
Workshop Two
Develop Digital Intelligence for school learning communities.
Are you digitally literate? Are you a good digital citizen?
If you are: that is no longer enough!
You now need to be fully equipped to thrive as a responsible member of the online world, and to be confident in handling the challenges and demands of the digital era.
What is your Digital Intelligence quotient? (DQ)
Are you, your students, your staff and your parents/carers ready for the future ahead?
Together we will explore the eight subsections of digital intelligence that cover social, emotional, and cognitive abilities essential to digital life.