I am Kate. I am a Teacher Librarian; it is double-barrelled because I have both a teaching degree and a Masters in teacher librarianship.

I work in an independent school in Hobart, Tasmania, where I am challenged by my students to keep up with their knowledge of new technologies, and to keep ahead of them in terms of how to use these tools to enhance the teaching and learning that goes on in and around my library.

My role includes promoting reading, organising and running the library, teaching students and staff about copyright and referencing and bibliographies, teaching and assessing information literacy skills, resource specialist, chess referee, on-the-spot technology advisor, and being the person who plays around finding new ways to use the interactive whiteboard.

I am starting this blog because I know that part of my personal learning style is needing to talk through new ideas and information as a means of getting my head around the concepts they present. In talking through – or blogging about – my evolving understanding, I make connections with previous experiences and prior knowledge that do not occur to me on the first reading (or viewing or listening – it’s all multiformat now!). Perhaps this blog will take a little of the pressure off the eardrums of my colleagues and my husband!