Monday, August 22, 2011
Assignment # 1 Navigating to and from your blog
In order to navigate to and from your blog, add a "Link List" Gadget and then link other student blogs to yours. You do this by clicking on the design tab in the upper right hand corner of your blog. Choose add a gadget. Title: Student Blogs. Your first link should be to the main Student Librarian Blog. All of the student blogs are linked to the library practice blog. You can copy and paste the links onto your blog home page. Please be sure to update periodically as we have new students signing in throughout the year. Thanks! If you are unsure of how to add a gadget, watch the "How To" video at the Library Portal.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Welcome New Library Practice Students!
As the school year begins I would like to welcome you all back to Monroe. For some of you this will be your last year here. I hope you have a wonderful time enjoying all the activities planned for you. One of your assignments is to keep a daily blog. You should check this blog everyday when you come in. In order to create a blog you will need to have a gmail or google account. I will also assign you an lausd account you will use strictly for email since gmail, hotmail and yahoo mail is blocked. : ( You can always contact me by email: ascherr@lausd.net Please see me to set up your lausd email account. I wish you each a happy, healthy & successful 2011-2012 school year.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Superintendent Deasy does a 360 an supports libraries!
False hope???? Deasy claims that TL's positions will be restored! Patt Morrison Show Public Radio KPCC
I would like to think that the social networking efforts, letter writing and advocacy campaigns of librarians all over the country had something to do with his public support. Now let's see whether or not his actions back his words!
I would like to think that the social networking efforts, letter writing and advocacy campaigns of librarians all over the country had something to do with his public support. Now let's see whether or not his actions back his words!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Assignment # 32 Open Letter to the School Board
Dear Mr. Deasy and School Board Members;
It is imperative that the board votes to centrally fund lausd school libraries immediately! This is not a political issue yet it has become one. My school site is top heavy with administrators yet you claim their is no $$$$$ for a teacher librarian. I know otherwise. It is merely a question of priorities. Since you are all educated people you must understand the importance of cultivating a culture of reading at a school site. This is particularly essential at those sites with a demographic of students living in poverty, with a high % of language learners and with no access to book stores in their communities. There is ample evidence to suggest that the single contributing factor to raising test scores on standardized tests is providing students with access to interesting and varied reading material. I have added more media links to the list Melinda Buterbaugh, our spokesperson has sent you. I have personally informed Tom Torlakson, one of the creaters of the model School Library Standards of the lack of support for school libraries here at LAUSD. He will be receiving copies of hearing transcripts along with Governor Brown and the State Board of Education. I am hoping they will all agree that the lack of central funding for libraries is unacceptable. Many of my students and parents will be filing Williams Complaints. We are also expecting mandated inclusion of school libraries and digital literacy standards into the curriculum framework. By joining us (LASLA) in supporting school libraries you can look like champions rather than villains. Do the right thing and restore funding immediately!
An open letter addressed to you: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/open-letter-los-angeles-unified-school-district-defunding-school-librarians from the American Library Association.
Hector Tobar's has written this article in the May 13 LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0513-tobar-20110513,0,3002882.column This article has received over 16,000 hits on Facebook alone and 334 online comments, 853 Tweets, and 3195 "Shares" on the LA Times web site.
And this from School Library Journal:
http://www.slj.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/890644-477/layoffs_interrogations_la_school_librarians.html.csp
"Which Way LA?" on KCRW with Warren Olney (click on the "Librarian" tab above the "Play" button): http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=ww110516california_budget_ba
From Patt_Morrison at Kpcc : "LAUSD librarians, fighting for their jobs, get a grilling" http://bit.ly/jTwcnl
National Education Association article by John Rosales
This compelling story will break your heart:
Ms Murphy's Blog: The library is not a fruit
Nora Murphy writes an eloquent op-ed piece for the L.A. Times
Beverly Goldberg authored this post in American Libraries Online,
This TL Connie Williams maintains a blog of related media news:
audio blog: Circulate This: Stories from the School Library
http://circulatethis.posterous.com/
People who really know about education know that a strong school library is key to student achievement. I hope that you will rescind the RIFs of teacher librarians and do your duty to the school children of this district by restoring funding of all library staff positions
“There is no evidence that more standards and tests will raise achievement. There is plenty of evidence that investing in libraries and librarians will raise achievement."
- Stephen Krashen, Prof Emeritus, USC, and the author of The Power of Reading
Ms. Annette Scherr
Teacher Librarian
Monroe High School
(818) 830-4291
sites.google.com/site/monroehslibrary
It is imperative that the board votes to centrally fund lausd school libraries immediately! This is not a political issue yet it has become one. My school site is top heavy with administrators yet you claim their is no $$$$$ for a teacher librarian. I know otherwise. It is merely a question of priorities. Since you are all educated people you must understand the importance of cultivating a culture of reading at a school site. This is particularly essential at those sites with a demographic of students living in poverty, with a high % of language learners and with no access to book stores in their communities. There is ample evidence to suggest that the single contributing factor to raising test scores on standardized tests is providing students with access to interesting and varied reading material. I have added more media links to the list Melinda Buterbaugh, our spokesperson has sent you. I have personally informed Tom Torlakson, one of the creaters of the model School Library Standards of the lack of support for school libraries here at LAUSD. He will be receiving copies of hearing transcripts along with Governor Brown and the State Board of Education. I am hoping they will all agree that the lack of central funding for libraries is unacceptable. Many of my students and parents will be filing Williams Complaints. We are also expecting mandated inclusion of school libraries and digital literacy standards into the curriculum framework. By joining us (LASLA) in supporting school libraries you can look like champions rather than villains. Do the right thing and restore funding immediately!
An open letter addressed to you: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/open-letter-los-angeles-unified-school-district-defunding-school-librarians from the American Library Association.
Hector Tobar's has written this article in the May 13 LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0513-tobar-20110513,0,3002882.column This article has received over 16,000 hits on Facebook alone and 334 online comments, 853 Tweets, and 3195 "Shares" on the LA Times web site.
And this from School Library Journal:
http://www.slj.com/slj/newslettersnewsletterbucketextrahelping2/890644-477/layoffs_interrogations_la_school_librarians.html.csp
"Which Way LA?" on KCRW with Warren Olney (click on the "Librarian" tab above the "Play" button): http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=ww110516california_budget_ba
From Patt_Morrison at Kpcc : "LAUSD librarians, fighting for their jobs, get a grilling" http://bit.ly/jTwcnl
National Education Association article by John Rosales
This compelling story will break your heart:
Ms Murphy's Blog: The library is not a fruit
Nora Murphy writes an eloquent op-ed piece for the L.A. Times
Beverly Goldberg authored this post in American Libraries Online,
This TL Connie Williams maintains a blog of related media news:
audio blog: Circulate This: Stories from the School Library
http://circulatethis.posterous.com/
People who really know about education know that a strong school library is key to student achievement. I hope that you will rescind the RIFs of teacher librarians and do your duty to the school children of this district by restoring funding of all library staff positions
“There is no evidence that more standards and tests will raise achievement. There is plenty of evidence that investing in libraries and librarians will raise achievement."
- Stephen Krashen, Prof Emeritus, USC, and the author of The Power of Reading
Ms. Annette Scherr
Teacher Librarian
Monroe High School
(818) 830-4291
sites.google.com/site/monroehslibrary
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Assignment # 30 Library Floorplan
Please use the free online drawing tool "Gliffy"
to create a labeled drawing(map) of the library in 2-D so that a student looking for a book could find it by using the Online Catalog and the Library Map. Please include the fiction and non fiction sections. Label the main Dewey Sections from 000 to 999. Have fun! Here is an exemplar! After I drew this in Gliffy I discovered that Google Docs also has an online drawing program that you might like better. Try them both and let me know what you think! P.S. Several of you are having problems with long URL's and broken links. Please use Tiny URL to shorten your links to your docs. Thanks.
to create a labeled drawing(map) of the library in 2-D so that a student looking for a book could find it by using the Online Catalog and the Library Map. Please include the fiction and non fiction sections. Label the main Dewey Sections from 000 to 999. Have fun! Here is an exemplar! After I drew this in Gliffy I discovered that Google Docs also has an online drawing program that you might like better. Try them both and let me know what you think! P.S. Several of you are having problems with long URL's and broken links. Please use Tiny URL to shorten your links to your docs. Thanks.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Post your Booktrailer on you blog!
Please post your photopeach booktrailer on your blog. Click on "Edit Html" and embed it in the blog as Ana Reyes did. Here is a link to Indeliza's Book Trailer.
"Into The Wild" Please write comments on each others book trailers! Thanks. Ms. Scherr
"Into The Wild" Please write comments on each others book trailers! Thanks. Ms. Scherr
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