LRC Librarians Working with the Salvadoran Library Association

 This year, our librarian from the Learning Resource Center LRC, Judith de Méndez, is part of the new board of directors of ABES in the position of secretary in the period 2022-2024. Hilda Gómez belongs to the School Libraries commission and Melissa Hernández is in the Training and Professional Development Commission.

As librarians, we value professional development opportunities, as well as the chance to share good practices and create links with our colleagues.

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Judith Mendez

LRC Head Librarian

Newly appointed to the position of secretary for the 

Salvadoran Librarian Association for 2022-2024. 

In her new role Judith will be responsible for

• Communications for the Association

• Extending all the certifications that are requested of the Association

• Produce and circulate updates and newsletters.

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Judith Mendez

Bibliotecario jefe de LRC

Recién nombrado en el cargo de secretario de la

Asociación Salvadoreña de Bibliotecarios para 2022-2024.

En su nuevo cargo, Judith será responsable de

• Ser el órgano de comunicación de la Asociación

• Extender todas las certificaciones que son solicitadas a la Asociación

• Hacer y enviar convocatorias a los miembros para las diferentes sesiones.

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Hilda Gómez

LRC Librarian

Hilda belongs to the School Libraries commission. 

In this role Hilda is responsible for: 

• technical support

• mapping school libraries on Google Maps

• creating forms

• librarian training

• establishing relationships with other commissions.

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Hilda Gómez

Bibliotecaria LRC

Hilda pertenece a la comisión de Bibliotecas Escolares.

En este rol, Hilda es la responsable de:

• soporte técnico

• realizar mapeo de bibliotecas escolares con Google Maps

• crear formularios

• capacitaciones para los bibliotecarios

• establecer relaciones con otras comisiones.

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Melissa Hernandez

LRC Library Assistant

Melissa belongs to the Training and Professional Development Commission.

In this role, Melissa is responsible for 

• Overseeing professional development 

         for all the librarians that belong to ABES

• Seeking out professionals to can carry out workshops, webinars and conferences

• Searching for strategic alliances that offer opportunities to librarians

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Melissa Hernandez

Asistente Bibliotecaria de LRC

Melissa pertenece a la comisión de Capacitación y Desarrollo Profesional.

En este rol, Melissa es responsable de

• Supervisión del desarrollo profesional para todos los bibliotecarios que pertenecen a ABES

• Búsqueda de profesionales que puedan realizar talleres, webinars y conferencias en el rubro bibliotecario.

• Búsqueda de alianzas estratégicas que brinde oportunidades a bibliotecarios.

Illustrating a Story

 En el mes de abril estaremos celebrando la semana del libro y por esta razón la Red de Bibliotecas y Colegios IB hemos realizado el taller: Ilustrando una historia, impartido por Angélica Hernández, encargada de Arte la ABC.

Estuvimos ilustrando el poema “Barrilete” de Claudia Lars y el cuento de “La pileta sin chorro y la canastiada”, del escritor salvadoreño Salvador Salazar Arrué mejor conocido como Salarrué. 

Los participantes del taller quedamos fascinados con las técnicas simples de la ilustración básica y dejamos volar nuestra imaginación en donde la historia se convierte en un mundo fantástico y cada uno plasmó su creatividad en lienzos pintados con acuarelas.

La finalidad del taller es lograr que cada uno de los bibliotecarios de las diferentes escuelas que conforman la Red puedan replicar la actividad con la comunidad educativa y de esta forma promover la lectura a través del dibujo y la ilustración.

Más fotos en Flickr

Video: https://youtu.be/zjuiSJ0cJQA

La Academia Británica Cuscatleca en conjunto con la Asociación de Bibliotecarios de El Salvador han unido esfuerzos para ayudar en la formación profesional al gremio bibliotecario del país, a través de la realización de talleres, cursos y conferencias, entre otros.

Como bibliotecarias siempre estamos buscando el desarrollo profesional al igual que compartir buenas prácticas y crear puentes que ayuden al crecimiento de todos nuestros colegas en el país.

We will be celebrating Book Week during the month of April. In anticipation of this celebration, the IB Schools and Libraries Network carried out the workshop: Illustrating a Story, given by Angélica Hernández, Head of Art at the ABC.

During the session, the librarians worked on illustrations of the poem "Barrilete" by Claudia Lars and the story of “La Pileta sin Chorro y la Canastiada”, by Salvadoran writer Salvador Salazar Arrué, better known as Salarrué. 

The workshop participants were fascinated by the simple techniques of basic illustration they learned and were able to let their imaginations run wild, to a place where stories become fantastic worlds, each captured through creativity using watercolours on the canvas.

The purpose of the workshop was to ensure that each of the librarians from the different schools that make up the Network can replicate the activity with their educational community during Book Week, and thus promote reading through drawing and illustration.

More photos on Flickr

The Academy Britanica Cuscatleca, together with the Librarians Association of El Salvador have joined forces to help in the professional training of the country's library group, through workshops, courses and conferences, among others.

As librarians, we value professional development opportunities, as well as the chance to share good practices and create links with our colleagues.

Brain Awareness Week 2022!

It was Brain Awareness Week this week!  The LRC prepared several activities for the community which we would like to share with you.

This year we celebrated Brain Week with a variety of activities including riddles, physical and mental exercises, as well as a display of our collection of books related to the brain. 

Displays were also put up outside of the LRC which sported many brain teasers and challenges. On many occasions, we observed groups of students trying to work them out while on breaks. Student enthusiasm was so contagious that one of our students, Simón Jarma even created his own puzzle which was placed outside the LRC for other students to view and answer.

During the week an additional activity was also carried out in conjunction with the PE Department in which12th grade students participated in a Yoga class. They enjoyed the activity very much and in doing so became more aware of how Yoga helps the mind and body. 

The LRC team had the opportunity to interview students who were involved in this activity so that we could all learn more about their experience participating in Yoga during Brain Week. We have included the links to these interviews, the activities as well as our photo gallery below.

Thank you to Mrs. Cecilia Hernández and her team for their support, as well as the participation of everyone else involved.

As always, we cordially invite you to stay tuned to our social networks to stay abreast of the many activities we carry out each week.

LRC Social Media

• FB

• Youtube

• TW

• IG

• Blog

Photos and videos

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¡Esta semana fue la Semana de Concientización sobre el Cerebro! El LRC preparó

varias actividades para la comunidad educativa que nos gustaría compartir con ustedes.

Este año 2022 celebramos Brain Week con muchas actividades entre ellas: acertijos,

ejercicios físicos y mentales, nuestro display con la colección de libros

relacionados al cerebro, etc.

En muchas ocasiones, observamos grupos de estudiantes tratando de resolverlos durante sus brakes. El entusiasmo de los estudiantes de secundaria contagió de tal manera que el estudiante Simón Jarma, creó su propio acertijo que fue colocado a las afueras del LRC para que así cualquier estudiante lo pudiese responder.

Adicionalmente se realizó una actividad en conjunto con el Departamento de PE con

estudiantes de 12th que participaron en la clase de Yoga. Disfrutaron mucho

de la actividad y al hacerlo se volvieron más conscientes de cómo el Yoga ayuda

a la mente y al cuerpo.

El equipo de LRC tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar a los estudiantes que participaron en esta actividad para que todos pudiéramos aprender más sobre su experiencia participando en Yoga durante la Semana del Cerebro. Hemos incluido los enlaces a estas entrevistas, las actividades y nuestra galería de fotos a continuación.

Agradecemos el apoyo recibido de parte de Mrs. Cecilia Hernández y su equipo

por su apoyo, así como la participación de todos los involucrados.

Como siempre, los invitamos cordialmente a estar atentos a nuestras redes sociales

para estar al tanto de las múltiples actividades que realizamos cada semana.

LRC Social Media

• FB

• Youtube

• TW

• IG

• Blog

Fotos y videos

Mini Maker STEAM Fest Challenges

 Prior to the Christmas Holidays, we launched our Mini Maker STEAM Fest Challenges. This activity marks the first step on the path to STEAM Fest 2022, which will take place later in the school year.

In the end, several students submitted their work for this activity.  We received quite a variety of projects, many of which were developed based on ideas taken from the Science Buddies website, while others were innovations the students designed and developed. themselves. 

At the ABC we very much value student choice,  agency and endeavour so it was fitting that we recognise and highlight the work of the students who not only engaged in various challenges over the past 2 months but also shared their final projects with us. 

On February 11th, each of these students were asked to visit the LRC, where they received a special, quite unexpected prize and a thank you from the organisers for taking part and for sharing their work. They can now choose whether to use their prizes to explore their favourite books or invest in further STEAM challenges at the Libreria Internacional.

Please do visit the STEAM Fest Mini Maker Challenge page for further details on this activity.

Building Empathy

 

Building Empathy

Our 6th-grade students are currently working on an MYP (Middle Years Programme)unit that focuses on three ATLs (Approaches to Learning), one of which is Practicing Collaboration Skills: Practice Empathy. 

The unit sets out to teach this ATL across a wide variety of experiences, one of which was a practical activity done these past two weeks. 

The Statement of Inquiry for the unit is The creative development of innovative products designed to function for an individual's needs, can help lessen inequalities. Through the inquiry process, students will be researching designing, developing and testing their 3D solutions for mobility challenges. It can be difficult for students to understand these challenges if they have never experienced them so we set out to give them a few mobility challenges of their own.

This is what two students had to say about that experience.

"This activity made us see how people with disabilities struggle to do things that for us are not complicated but for them are very challenging. It also made us feel disappointed because sometimes we make jokes about those topics when it is a very serious issue. What we did see was how disabled people lived their normal lives. We did this through some “games” which helped us understand what people felt.

We felt very stressed and frustrated because we couldn't do simple things like write our name or even get a cup. We think that we did this activity because it was going to be fun and to reflect on how people with disabilities live their normal lives. This made us feel guilty because we sometimes complain about little things when people with disabilities wish to have legs, arms or other parts of the human body. We hope you reflect on these issues and think about how people live their lives missing a part of their bodies that make their life complicated. 

The question we have to ask you is what would you do if you were them? "

Thanks.

By Gabriel Cañenguez and Adriana Guzmán

Makerspace Christmas Light-up Cards🎅🎄🎉

Creative learning at the LRC is alive and well. This week students had the opportunity to construct light up Christmas cards by building paper circuits, which use paper, copper tape, battery packs and LED lights.

This is one of several Christmas themed activities brought to our students by way of the LRC Makerspace.

A big thanks to our team of librarians for all of the exciting projects they have run for our students.

Christmas Gnomes

 The LRC teamed up with the 6th and 7th-grade year groups this week to offer a special maker space Christmas activity. The objective was to bring a bit of fun and celebratory active learning to students while socially distancing and following school protocols. The kids were so excited to be able to work on the project and produce a large collection of cute Christmasy gnomes.

The students have been sending in photos they have taken of their Gnomes at home and we are busily adding these to our Flickr Album so we can share the fun and joy with the greater community. Many of the students have said they are going to make more gnomes at home with their families as well. The gnome hats seemed to be the clincher. Once the kids say them they were hooked and worked diligently to produce their own pompom gnomes by the end of the session. 

The Gnomes are made with paper towel rolls, red and white wool, dabs of glue, a handful of filling, and a small styrofoam ball for the nose.  If you are interested in making your own you may want to check out the instructions on the following blog.

We will add the photos from the 6th-grade activities to the same Flickr Album as they roll in.