Hi Debbie - absolutely! I find that when I create a guide for a study unit,
the teacher becomes more invested in selecting resources (sending me
additional links, asking if they are authoritative, asking why they are or
are not) and in learning to use the databases that are on the page, because
he/she knows there will be questions from students that need answers.
Making a libguide often results in point-of-need PD which is the best. I
also always leave further development of the guide to the students - I tell
them if they find a great website they can send the teacher or me the link
and we will assess it together. I tell everyone we are all learning
together, all the time.
Cathy
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Cathy Rettberg, Head Librarian
Menlo School
Atherton, CA
http://library.menloschool.org
What I'm reading:
*The Fifth Season/*Jemison
*Nimona*/Stevenson
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Debbie Abilock <dabilock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
May I ask…
Do you feel / find that these result in learning for the teachers? I’m
writing a chapter on librarians doing PD and wondering if you’ve got
sense/evidence of changes in thinking, learning, assessing, assigning…
Happy Holidays everyoned!
debbie
*From:* baisl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:baisl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
Behalf Of *Susanne DeRisi
*Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:10 AM
*To:* baisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [baisl] Re: LMS' and LibGuides
· Name: Susanne DeRisi, Lissa Crider
· School: Lick-Wilmerding High School
· Grade level: 9-12
· What Learning Management System (LMS) do you use? Blackbaud (was
Whipple Hill)
· Do you have online research guides? Yes, we use LibGuides
http://lwhs.libguides.com/ We've just upgraded to LibGuides CMS in hopes
of making LibGuides our main library home page, but haven't had a chance to
implement this yet. We are also in the midst of improving our layouts and
creating model templates. In the short time (past two months) that I've
been working with Lissa, I've seen how extensively the students use the
research guides while working on their classroom projects. Teachers link
to the research guides from their classroom pages, the librarian introduces
the resources and information literacy skills covered in the guides to the
students when they come in to library as a group, then later works with
students individually. The students and teachers have given us feedback on
the usefulness of the research guides this semester. If you look at the
guides that are most popular, you'll see they are for specific classes that
use the library heavily for projects. However, the great thing about
LibGuides (since I am new to it) is that you can re-use elements that
you've created for other guides so that you don't have to create content
from scratch each time.
-Susanne
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Cathy Rettberg <crettberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello Mei,
I don't try to make a guide for every topic - I make guides for particular
research/study units (when everyone is doing the same thing) and then I
have general guides like ones for primary sources, political cartoons, the
Decades project etc. There's no way to catalog the entire Internet but at
least I can point them to places where they can start. I have a couple of
unpublished guides that I have been putting together on popular topics - I
mine the student bibliographies for those sources and hope to have a few of
them up later this year.
Cathy
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Cathy Rettberg, Head Librarian
Menlo School
Atherton, CA
http://library.menloschool.org
What I'm reading:
*The Fifth Season/*Jemison
*Nimona*/Stevenson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Mei Yang <meiyang@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like the concept of Research Guides but it's been a challenge having the
right topics available in time for students, mainly because the history
teachers started to allow students to choose their own topics and the
popularity of certain subjects seems to change every year. Would be
interested in knowing how others decide what topics to cover.
· Name: Mei Yang
· School: Saint Francis High School
· Grade level: 9 - 12
· What Learning Management System (LMS) do you use? eBackpack
and EdLine
· Do you have online research guides? If so, where (LibGuides,
your LMS, other--please specify). Yes, created own using our website
platform FinalSite.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Nicole Hunter <nmhunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,
Following up on Catherine's request about LibGuides I would love to know
how librarians are using LMS', LibGuides and/or other platforms to create
research guides. This could be a great conversation at our upcoming BAISL
meeting. If you are interested in sharing about your experience with
creating research guides please contact me off list (
nicole.hunter@xxxxxxxxx) with the following information:
- Name:
- School:
- Grade level:
- What Learning Management System (LMS) do you use?
- Do you have online research guides? If so, where (LibGuides, your
LMS, other--please specify).
Thank you!
Nicole
Nicole Hunter
Librarian, San Francisco University High School
Vice President, Bay Area Independent School Librarians
3065 Jackson Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415.447.3123
nicole.hunter@xxxxxxxxx
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Mei Yang
Saint Francis High School Library
1885 Miramonte Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94040
650-968-1213 x299
www.sfhs.com
