Here is how it works:
Teachers submit the “ingredients” for a proposed research guide. The guide could include a description or lesson plan for a particular assignment, rubric, associated research sites and web tools that students may need in completing a project. The media specialist then enriches the teacher’s ideas by including other streams of information such as databases and search engine widgets, books available in the library, tips for research, citation rules etc. to create all-encompassing pathfinders for students. These guides encourage students to easily navigate a variety of resources at school or from home in a safe, structured environment.
Middletown North HS has been creating guides since September and the idea has really taken off! Bayshore MS has just started with their guides but anticipates the usefulness of this tool for the future.
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Mrs. Lauren Stout at HSN set up a LibGuide for a project my students were working on in the media center. It really increased the productivity of each student because useless or irrelevant sites were not included. An excellent way to save time and introduce students to reputable sites and features.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent opportunity for the classroom teacher and the media specialist to collaborate with one another and, at the same time, enables the students to utilize worthwhile and appropriate resources. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteWe also are members of the LibGuides community here in the HS South Library Media Center. I just signed up for this a couple of weeks ago, when I was able to allot funding for it. We will soon be up and running along with Bayshore and North. I made arrangements with the company (Springshare) for Thorne and Thompson to sign up for LibGuides as well so that we will all have them next year. This will open up all kinds of possibilities district-wide as well as giving all of our secondary school faculties access to this opportunity.
DeleteMy 7th graders are currently using the LibGuide that Lisa Ligo set up for us and it has been wonderful! Everything is contained in one area and students are no longer heading to Wikipedia to find their information. They really seem to appreciate having this resource, and I like that the LibGuides allow me to spend more time focusing on other aspects of their research paper. I also agree that this is an excellent collaboration opportunity between classroom teachers and media specialists and it really does make the planning of a research project a much less daunting task.
ReplyDeleteThis is great. I liked Middletown North's Professional Development section. After perusing other libraries I found some great evaluation rubrics and other Web 2.0 ideas.
ReplyDeleteFor the past ten years, I have been fortunate to manage a library page as a part of our school website. Since I am the building webmaster, I have been able include pathfinders and links to databases there. But the process has been cumbersome. I am excited to try Lib Guides because it seems to offer an easy way to integrate videos and other media directly within a guide.
ReplyDeleteThis has been a good reminder for me to update our pathfinders too. For the past few years many teachers have been requesting links for their own websites... to keep everything in one place. I need to add those links to our website as well.
Yes, the LibGuides are essentially pathfinders. Before they were accessible in print format (that we ran off and handed out) and on the R drive (which allowed direct clicks to the links but was only accessible in-district) and from a web site link.
DeleteWe have always been providing the kids with the links to quality sources (print and non-print and especially trustworthy web sites), but this is just such a better and more accessible way to do so. Also, within the library community, there is a lot of sharing.
DAY 10 - LIBGUIDES
ReplyDeleteLibGuides ia a great way for teachers to collaborate on assignments, organize instrucitons, expectations and other communications in one place and streamline the reseach process for students - guiding them to more profitable and reliable sources.
For teachers and other professionals it is a great central resource for finding ideas, classroom tools and other helps.
I really like the idea of LibGuides. This would definitely help my students locate research information for the papers they have to write in class. Having everything in one area would be a great help for them.
ReplyDeleteI have used LibGuides in one of my Social Studies classes. It really helps the students locate research quickly and effectively.
ReplyDeleteI love the libguides pages that Lauren Stout sets up for student projects/research papers! I've used them for each project that my students have done this year, and it's been very useful to give the kids immediate access to REPUTABLE websites. We all know that the students immediately want to go to Google or Wikipedia - if they have easy access to a better site, they're more likely to use it.
ReplyDeleteLisa helped us create our Libguide at Bayshore and it is so useful! Today Lisa showed us how to view Libguides from all over the state and even in different countries. I found some great resources already!
ReplyDeleteLisa helped us create our Libguide at Bayshore and it is so useful! Today Lisa showed us how to view Libguides from all over the state and even in different countries. I found some great resources already!
ReplyDeleteWith all the research-based projects the students do now, this is a great tool!
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