Brain Awareness Week

is an international effort organised by leading neuroscience organisations around the world to promote public awareness about brain and mind disorders and the benefits of brain research.

http://www.brainaustralia.org.au/

Resources for Tasmanian DOE people:

Teacher resources: http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/brain.aspx

Student resources: http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/brain.aspx

Resources about the human brain 

    Brain food   
 
A collection of bookmarks to sites with information about foods which nourish the brain. Prepared for Brain Awareness Week.  more…
http://delicious.com/lorenefurmage/brainfood 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Brain Connection  
 
This site is a store of information about the brain, child development and learning. Learning resources include printable activities and experiments. Games and illusions are also provided. The educati…  more…
http://www.brainconnection.com/ 
Birth – 4 Years, Early Childhood, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   DANA BrainWeb & Brain Information: Information on Brain Disorders and Brain Diseases   
 
Addiction, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, depression, mental illness, schizophrenia, head/brain injury, aging, learning, memory, pain, sleep are all covered in this set of web links…  more…
http://www.dana.org/brainweb/ 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher 
  
   BrainyKids  
 
This site is a starting point for web links for experiments, dissecting sheep’s brain and cow’s eye and a whole frog, themed brain games, plus other brain related information for students, children, p…  more…
http://www.dana.org/kids/ 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher  
   
     Human Brain  
 
How to nourish, protect and renew your brain.  more…
http://www.fi.edu/brain/index.htm 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College 
  
   Whole Brain Atlas  
 
View the human brain in three different directions. Learn to navigate through a normal brain and then study brains affected by Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease (stroke); tumor; multiple sclerosis …  more…
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html 
College, Teacher 

   Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World  
 
Scientific information about how the senses carry messages to the brain and how the brain interprets those messages. Includes discussion of current research on topics such as colour blindness and deaf…  more…
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/ 
College, Teacher 
  
   She Brains – He Brains  
 
Discusses whether gender affects the brain and therefore the behaviour of men and women.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Neuroscience for Kids  
 
Explore your nervous system with experiments and diagrams, look at disorders of the nervous system, play games and there are postcards to send.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html 
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

The following items are from the Learning Federation access these through your usual school access or from:

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/for_teachers/catalogues/catalogues.html 

 Body parts: vision  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Look closely at parts of a human eye. Learn how people see: light rays are detected within the eye and electrical messages are sent to the brain. Learn why we have eyebrows, eyelashes and tear ducts. …  more…
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Lower Secondary 

 Body parts: hearing  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Follow sound waves as they travel through a human ear. Find out how vibrations from the eardrum are translated into electrical messages sent to the brain. Name parts of the human ear. Test your knowle…  more…
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary  
    

Following up on yesterday’s ASLA Tas meeting held at Hutchins Junior School – Stephens library. Kate Reid, teacher librarian, discussed her recent renovations to this library. 

Here are the links referred to and other information of interest.

The work of Kevin Hennah was discussed and links to school libraries following his principles  are referred to below:

 Before and after shots from  a library after a Kevin Hennah workshop:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgsclibrary/

A budget renovation  following Kevin Hennah principles.

Shoestring makeovers

Shoestrings vs pursestrings

The book Rethink: inspiring school library spaces edited by Dr Susan La Marca, with a
special section by marketing and retail consultant, Kevin Hennah - which was circulated during the meeting, can be ordered using this form:

http://www.slav.schools.net.au/downloads/06publications/retkord.pdf

Kevin Hennah  will be presenting 2 workshops in Hobart -July 7-8th : see website for details and registration forms:

 www.kevinhennah.com.au

Lyndall Innes the Raeco specialist from Corporate Express was present to discuss library furniture and layout ideas. She may be contacted at:

lyndall.innes@ce.com.au

Did I miss anything?

Please contribute to this post.

Nominations are closing on March 31st for the following awards: Doreen Hopkins Medal and School Library Research Fellow of the Year Award. These awards are presented by ASLA Tas (Australian School Library Association – Tasmania). More information is available from their website

http://www.asla.org.au/aslatas/awards/

This online professional learning event took place over the last 10 days. Over 200 delegates participated in a variety of presentations. I however am still far from completing the course. Being my first online event I found it difficult to assign the appropriate amount of time to participate, but as the presentations will be available for a few more weeks I will endeavour to read/listen to them all. I will miss out on the interaction between delegates that was available during the course. I willl attempt to summarize the best bits for you the reader.