UQ's Academic Scholarship program aims to reward the achievements of outstanding school leavers and gap year students. A significant number of scholarships are awarded each year. If you are a high-achieving student and you are completing Year 12 in 2012 (or you completed in 2011 and you're on a gap year) then you are encouraged to apply.

This video animation from RMIT is aimed at first year undergraduate university students but also has applications for secondary school students.

It can be viewed via Youtube or Vimeo

Word Play, the wonderful program for young readers, writers and illustrators in grades 4-12 is now on sale.

You can book your early bird tickets until Friday 22 June and it really is best to get in quick - these sessions and workshops sell like hotcakes!

Queensland State Archives holds many resources within its collection to assist researchers interested in school history:

• locating their own school admission details
• organising a school reunion
• compiling information on the history of a school
• finding teacher records.

This is a fascinating website for teachers and students of history.

This article in The Sydney Morning Herald this morning 28 May 2012 raises some interesting issues for schools with regards to students BYO electronic devices to school. The article can be accessed here.

All are welcome to hear author and UQ Alumnus Simon Cleary speak at a Friends of Fryer event about his most recent book Closer to Stone.

We have been receiving many requests from Teacher-Librarians about issues relating to e-books and e-lending and the implications this has for School Libraries.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has drafted a background paper on digital lending.

The paper attempts to:

From UQ News:

Check out the latest Animal/Human exhibition at the UQ Art Museum. The exhibition, running until Sunday, July 22, presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explores our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. For further details, click here.

To celebrate International Art Week, Oxford University Press would like to highlight a key secondary Art resource, Oxford Art Online.