Lesson 6
1. Since this was another form of e-books I put in the same words we used last week to see how this would compare. When I put in zinc I got 73 matches and found some of the same books I had last week. I also tried Johannes Kepler and there were 2 books brought up. I clicked into them and there were 3 references given and the pages were shown on the first click in. There was definatly more information in the Gale books last week. I liked that listing of the books in the Gale last week too. I went into Search Databases and this did help limit to certain areas.
I used the word Mammals and got 59 results for this. This was interesting because it gave me a lot of books to choose from. After I clicked into the book there was a list of tools with lots of different options on it which was a nice feature. I scrolled through the 59 books listed and found a lot of travel books that mentioned mammals and just a great variety of different kinds of books.
2. I had a hard time with this one. I looked at the 21 result that came up when I put in Constitution Day. I looked at those books but there was not anything directly related to this term. Any time the word Constitution was in bold print the word day was a few sentences away. I spent over an hour in here trying to find something and did not come up with anything. I went to Gale and had about the same results. I finally went to World Book and found just a short description of the term. I would have a hard time filling this request. Today, In reading some of the other blogs I may have been looking for the wrong thing. Maybe I needed to just find things about the constitution that students could use in reports that were given on this day. I went back and looked and when I put in Constitution I came up with 174 hits. The first book Representing Popular Sovereignty had a lot of chapters that looked like they could give a student good information that they need. There was another book called The Constitution of the Untied States of America, which also looked like it had good information.
3. I found 56 results when I put in Nebraska. If this is a college class there is a lot of interesting information on Indian Policy in the book Documents of United States Indian Policy. It has a good timeline of the different agreements with the Indian nations. I also put in Oklahoma and it was good to compare the two entries. I think I liked the Oklahoma entry better for a Project on Western history. I think either would be very useful. I found a book on the Rapid City, Indian Schools which looked like a very interesting book.
In looking back at all the lessons that we have done I would not rate this as my favorite site. This could be because I work with younger children and this would not be a good site for them. This is definatly upper high school or college age students that would find this useful. I just found Gale to be easier to use. I am enjoying these lessons because they get me into things I have never been into very much before and lets me decide which ones would be useful to me.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Lesson 5 Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. Oh, my goodness. I have never really been in here and did I find a lot of useful stuff. I need to run off that title page so that I can keep that at the desk and use this site more. I can't afford to buy a lot of these kind of books because of the expense.
One of the first titles that caught my eye was "Bowling, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms. Last year I had a girl do a report on some fashion things and we had a hard time finding a print source for her. This would have been perfect. I had a great time in this source. I looked at Hats and found lots of fun stuff about hats.
Then I have a teacher starting 7th grade scientists reports. He was looking for information on Johannes Kepler. I have purchased a lot of books on Scientists because he does this project each year, but I did not have anything on this person. I put it into the search bar and came up with 64 results and went down and showed him where this site was tonight. This way the student will have a book source. I told him he was going to have to help the student because a lot of it is above what a 7th grader may understand but it could be useful. I found the number of words in an article helpful for knowing how long the article might be.
Then as I went down the list I saw the title Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans so I need to get that to the guidence person but I didn't see her today. I did notice that this was a 2012 date so the things will be current. I did go into the site and browse around so it would be a good place to send students looking for additional funding for school.
The one thing I did notice was that a lot of the books listed were not newer editions so a person would have to judge what kind of information was needed and what kind of a date you are looking at.
Another book that I know I can use is the Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America. I have an English teacher that has seniors do research papers on court cases each year so this will be a place I can send those students.
Another title that caught my eye was Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Culture. We have geography classes do reports on countries and this would be another good source for them. There is also a World Mark Encyclopeida of States and I have a 4th grade teacher that does states so if they needed extra material they could go to this site. It might be a bit difficult for 4th graders.
2. I kind of already did this question with Johannes Kepler but I will do another search and see what I can find. Oh, I did hats too and that was fun.
I found 714 results for Zink. Of course there were many chemical articles as well as food and wellness articles. I like the health items because these are things people often look for and the books get outdated so quickly.
I went down to ADHD Diet and clicked into the article. I turned on the listen and liked that the words were highlighted as the reading was done. This could be very helpful for a student using the listening feature. I thought the voice was pleasant to listen to.
Just to try I went to the Advanced Challenge question and put in Spring Holidays and found the first page of references were mostly from the Junior. Worlmark Encycolpeida of World Cultures. I guess just looking at titles of books this is where I would think the answers might be at.
3.Tonight I looked at a lot of other blogs. I comments on some of them and that was fun. I found another person that liked the Bowlers, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms book.
1. Oh, my goodness. I have never really been in here and did I find a lot of useful stuff. I need to run off that title page so that I can keep that at the desk and use this site more. I can't afford to buy a lot of these kind of books because of the expense.
One of the first titles that caught my eye was "Bowling, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms. Last year I had a girl do a report on some fashion things and we had a hard time finding a print source for her. This would have been perfect. I had a great time in this source. I looked at Hats and found lots of fun stuff about hats.
Then I have a teacher starting 7th grade scientists reports. He was looking for information on Johannes Kepler. I have purchased a lot of books on Scientists because he does this project each year, but I did not have anything on this person. I put it into the search bar and came up with 64 results and went down and showed him where this site was tonight. This way the student will have a book source. I told him he was going to have to help the student because a lot of it is above what a 7th grader may understand but it could be useful. I found the number of words in an article helpful for knowing how long the article might be.
Then as I went down the list I saw the title Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans so I need to get that to the guidence person but I didn't see her today. I did notice that this was a 2012 date so the things will be current. I did go into the site and browse around so it would be a good place to send students looking for additional funding for school.
The one thing I did notice was that a lot of the books listed were not newer editions so a person would have to judge what kind of information was needed and what kind of a date you are looking at.
Another book that I know I can use is the Supreme Court Drama: Cases that Changed America. I have an English teacher that has seniors do research papers on court cases each year so this will be a place I can send those students.
Another title that caught my eye was Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Culture. We have geography classes do reports on countries and this would be another good source for them. There is also a World Mark Encyclopeida of States and I have a 4th grade teacher that does states so if they needed extra material they could go to this site. It might be a bit difficult for 4th graders.
2. I kind of already did this question with Johannes Kepler but I will do another search and see what I can find. Oh, I did hats too and that was fun.
I found 714 results for Zink. Of course there were many chemical articles as well as food and wellness articles. I like the health items because these are things people often look for and the books get outdated so quickly.
I went down to ADHD Diet and clicked into the article. I turned on the listen and liked that the words were highlighted as the reading was done. This could be very helpful for a student using the listening feature. I thought the voice was pleasant to listen to.
Just to try I went to the Advanced Challenge question and put in Spring Holidays and found the first page of references were mostly from the Junior. Worlmark Encycolpeida of World Cultures. I guess just looking at titles of books this is where I would think the answers might be at.
3.Tonight I looked at a lot of other blogs. I comments on some of them and that was fun. I found another person that liked the Bowlers, Betniks and Bell-Bottoms book.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Lesson 4 Proquest
1. I went into distracted driving because I had looked at that yesterday in Sirs. I like to compare the data bases to see which one I would recommend in various situations.
I found more articles in Proquest than I had in the Sirs. I clicked on the full text but then found when I get into the articles I still need to click on the full text, which I would think would come up since I had already indicated that I would like full text. Again there is so much information and so many ways to search.
I went to the right side of the screen and took a look at the different kinds of sources. I was interested to see where some of the information was coming from in the tabs I was not familiar with. The Reports tab contained a lot of publications from Congressional Documents and Publications. In the Other Sources a lot of those articles came from National Public Radio. In the Trade Journals group I found such things as School Library Journal and Combat Edge, a military publication. Again which direction you send a patron depends a lot on the age of the patron and the exact information they are looking for. A jr. high student may want just magazines because they would be familiar with the magazines they find there. On the other hand a college student would be looking for more spicific things and would search in the journals or some of the other sources available there.
For some reason I do not like getting around in Proquest as well as Sirs. Maybe because I feel most of the students I work with, because they are younger, would do better in SIRS.
1a. I went into my of the other blogs and found I was doing the same kind of thing that other people were so I felt comfortable with that. At least I feel that I am doing this class like I should. It was comforting. It is very interesting to see what people are going into and doing with the lesson. Before I started my tech person said I should look at what other people are doing so that I knew what to do. Some weeks I don't have time to do this but when I have time I have been looking.
2 There were 4406 publications. That is a lot of publications.!!
I went into the publication Aborigional Nurse just to see what was there. It gives all the dates of magazines which is interesting and then tells you how many articles are in the issue that you select. In that issure there were 11 articles and from what I could see of the articles they were related to a very small audience but it is great that it is there for people that need it. I thought it was very interesting.
Next I put in Library Journal and got 6 hits. One of the journals that came up was Pakistan Journal of Library Information and Science. I found that the items there start in 2008 to the present. I clicked into the magazine and found that there were 18 items in the most recent publication (2012). I picked an article intitled "Reading needs, facilities and problems of the visually impared people. " It addressed the fact that all people need to learn to read It talked about a recent study that was done with visually impared people. I found it to be a very interesting article.
This database certainly provieds a weath of information and since it is done by scholarly well documented research it is such a good source for older students to use. I feel the format and set up is definatly geared to older high school or college students. People that know just what kind of journal they need to get information from are certainly ahead going to this data base and putting in the nameof the journal.
I had not spent as much time in the data base so it was a good experience for me.
I was trying to beat the weather this week!!!
1. I went into distracted driving because I had looked at that yesterday in Sirs. I like to compare the data bases to see which one I would recommend in various situations.
I found more articles in Proquest than I had in the Sirs. I clicked on the full text but then found when I get into the articles I still need to click on the full text, which I would think would come up since I had already indicated that I would like full text. Again there is so much information and so many ways to search.
I went to the right side of the screen and took a look at the different kinds of sources. I was interested to see where some of the information was coming from in the tabs I was not familiar with. The Reports tab contained a lot of publications from Congressional Documents and Publications. In the Other Sources a lot of those articles came from National Public Radio. In the Trade Journals group I found such things as School Library Journal and Combat Edge, a military publication. Again which direction you send a patron depends a lot on the age of the patron and the exact information they are looking for. A jr. high student may want just magazines because they would be familiar with the magazines they find there. On the other hand a college student would be looking for more spicific things and would search in the journals or some of the other sources available there.
For some reason I do not like getting around in Proquest as well as Sirs. Maybe because I feel most of the students I work with, because they are younger, would do better in SIRS.
1a. I went into my of the other blogs and found I was doing the same kind of thing that other people were so I felt comfortable with that. At least I feel that I am doing this class like I should. It was comforting. It is very interesting to see what people are going into and doing with the lesson. Before I started my tech person said I should look at what other people are doing so that I knew what to do. Some weeks I don't have time to do this but when I have time I have been looking.
2 There were 4406 publications. That is a lot of publications.!!
I went into the publication Aborigional Nurse just to see what was there. It gives all the dates of magazines which is interesting and then tells you how many articles are in the issue that you select. In that issure there were 11 articles and from what I could see of the articles they were related to a very small audience but it is great that it is there for people that need it. I thought it was very interesting.
Next I put in Library Journal and got 6 hits. One of the journals that came up was Pakistan Journal of Library Information and Science. I found that the items there start in 2008 to the present. I clicked into the magazine and found that there were 18 items in the most recent publication (2012). I picked an article intitled "Reading needs, facilities and problems of the visually impared people. " It addressed the fact that all people need to learn to read It talked about a recent study that was done with visually impared people. I found it to be a very interesting article.
This database certainly provieds a weath of information and since it is done by scholarly well documented research it is such a good source for older students to use. I feel the format and set up is definatly geared to older high school or college students. People that know just what kind of journal they need to get information from are certainly ahead going to this data base and putting in the nameof the journal.
I had not spent as much time in the data base so it was a good experience for me.
I was trying to beat the weather this week!!!
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Lesson #3
1. As I went into this data base there is a wealth of information on the first screen. I just had my 6th graders here last week and we looked up the Spotlight of the Month, Maps of the World and went to the Kids Corner. From there we went to the Things to Make and do and I had them find an activity. That was fun to find something they could do. I also was not real sure how the Lexile score worked so I went to help and found the answer to that. There was so much good information here also. A person could spend many hours just on that first screen.
I then put in armadillos and spent some time there. I found by article #14 there was not much information about the animal even though it said there were 84 articles. Out of those first 14 articles 10 of them had pictures even some of them were not real clear. The first article had nice pictures. If I had a choice I would send students to the World Book for better pictures.
There were no web find sites and some of the articles were 10 years or older. There were some newer ones but the first article (which I think of as usually one of the better articles) was a 2003 article.
I went down further on the list and looked at an article called Roach and found the word armadillo only once but it was higlighted and I found out that armadillo eats raoches. This tells me that every time any kind of article uses the word armadillo it will come up in the reading list. Article #42 was really a stretch, they were using a mock introduction where someone was introduced to an armadillo.
There was a wide variety of lesile levels to choose from.
2.
a. I went back to Africa and then went to Togo again. There was a map and a flag and a set of boxes with informative little topics. In order to get more information I went to Learn More About Togo and there were some longer articles with more information. It depends on how much information a student needs as to if I would send them to this site. I found it harder to get around in than some other sites.
b. I was impressed with the amount of maps available. I went into the US Historical maps and this had 1000 maps by itself. All the different dates were so interesting. I went into 1450 with the Native Trade Networks. This would be helpful for a student doing work on a Native project. I was amazed at all the different kinds of maps: economic, cultural, language and that was all just on the first page. I found this one easier to get around in than the "Country Facts". There would just be many ways that a student could use this section. Some of this imformation could even be used for an economics paper.
c. I picked Fiction because I just wanted to know what was in that. I found a lot of cute little stories that I could use for story time. I went into several of the different topics just to see what the stories were like. I could see going here to enlarge my reading selection. Sometime I am going to go back and go into all of those "Database Features" because they are interesting to look around in.
SIRS Issures Researcher:
1. There are so many issues to pick from. I selected a new article on Distracted Driving. I felt there was a lot of information in this selection. The first things I looked at was the defination and that was excellent. Since this is a newer article I thougth it was good to give a defination so everyone knew excatly what these are going to be talking about.
a. The Research tools:
The topic Overviews addressed Technology off all kinds and how it had touched society. There were 8 subtopics and one of the eight was about distracted driving.
The Timeline was interesting but very broad.
The Global Impact was again very general technology information.
The Statistics had graphs and charts again just general technology.
My Analysis was information to help you organize any kind of topic.
Note Organizer. I liked this page because it is helpful in organizing the information. You can type right into the boxes which could be very helpful to a student. A student that has trouble organizing information could really make good use of this feature. Reminded me of using notecards.
b. In just looking through the articles I felt they related very well. I went through 2 screens and they were still directly related to the information that I was looking for. The reading levels were higher and the articles were various lenghts. Since this is a topic that teens would be involved with I would expect the reading level to be higher.
For a student that was doing a debate the Pro and Con section is very useful. In that box it has articles that were related to either side so you did not have to hunt through the entire listing to find the kind of article you need.
2. I had never been to this part of SIRS and found it very interesting. This wold be a good place to send a 7th grade class to help them see what they are going to have to take in order to head down various paths in career planning.
I went into the Language Arts and checked the first topic American Literature. This took me to an article that had a full text edition of the book with reviews of the book and illustrations that went with the book. If this book was an assignment the student could find it here without having to purchase the book plus get extra information about that book.
There is just so much information in these data bases that it blows me away. I think the hardest thing is knowing just what excatly the student is looking for so that you send them on the right path. A lot of time can be wasted looking in the wrong place, just because of the vast amount of thing to choose from.
1. As I went into this data base there is a wealth of information on the first screen. I just had my 6th graders here last week and we looked up the Spotlight of the Month, Maps of the World and went to the Kids Corner. From there we went to the Things to Make and do and I had them find an activity. That was fun to find something they could do. I also was not real sure how the Lexile score worked so I went to help and found the answer to that. There was so much good information here also. A person could spend many hours just on that first screen.
I then put in armadillos and spent some time there. I found by article #14 there was not much information about the animal even though it said there were 84 articles. Out of those first 14 articles 10 of them had pictures even some of them were not real clear. The first article had nice pictures. If I had a choice I would send students to the World Book for better pictures.
There were no web find sites and some of the articles were 10 years or older. There were some newer ones but the first article (which I think of as usually one of the better articles) was a 2003 article.
I went down further on the list and looked at an article called Roach and found the word armadillo only once but it was higlighted and I found out that armadillo eats raoches. This tells me that every time any kind of article uses the word armadillo it will come up in the reading list. Article #42 was really a stretch, they were using a mock introduction where someone was introduced to an armadillo.
There was a wide variety of lesile levels to choose from.
2.
a. I went back to Africa and then went to Togo again. There was a map and a flag and a set of boxes with informative little topics. In order to get more information I went to Learn More About Togo and there were some longer articles with more information. It depends on how much information a student needs as to if I would send them to this site. I found it harder to get around in than some other sites.
b. I was impressed with the amount of maps available. I went into the US Historical maps and this had 1000 maps by itself. All the different dates were so interesting. I went into 1450 with the Native Trade Networks. This would be helpful for a student doing work on a Native project. I was amazed at all the different kinds of maps: economic, cultural, language and that was all just on the first page. I found this one easier to get around in than the "Country Facts". There would just be many ways that a student could use this section. Some of this imformation could even be used for an economics paper.
c. I picked Fiction because I just wanted to know what was in that. I found a lot of cute little stories that I could use for story time. I went into several of the different topics just to see what the stories were like. I could see going here to enlarge my reading selection. Sometime I am going to go back and go into all of those "Database Features" because they are interesting to look around in.
SIRS Issures Researcher:
1. There are so many issues to pick from. I selected a new article on Distracted Driving. I felt there was a lot of information in this selection. The first things I looked at was the defination and that was excellent. Since this is a newer article I thougth it was good to give a defination so everyone knew excatly what these are going to be talking about.
a. The Research tools:
The topic Overviews addressed Technology off all kinds and how it had touched society. There were 8 subtopics and one of the eight was about distracted driving.
The Timeline was interesting but very broad.
The Global Impact was again very general technology information.
The Statistics had graphs and charts again just general technology.
My Analysis was information to help you organize any kind of topic.
Note Organizer. I liked this page because it is helpful in organizing the information. You can type right into the boxes which could be very helpful to a student. A student that has trouble organizing information could really make good use of this feature. Reminded me of using notecards.
b. In just looking through the articles I felt they related very well. I went through 2 screens and they were still directly related to the information that I was looking for. The reading levels were higher and the articles were various lenghts. Since this is a topic that teens would be involved with I would expect the reading level to be higher.
For a student that was doing a debate the Pro and Con section is very useful. In that box it has articles that were related to either side so you did not have to hunt through the entire listing to find the kind of article you need.
2. I had never been to this part of SIRS and found it very interesting. This wold be a good place to send a 7th grade class to help them see what they are going to have to take in order to head down various paths in career planning.
I went into the Language Arts and checked the first topic American Literature. This took me to an article that had a full text edition of the book with reviews of the book and illustrations that went with the book. If this book was an assignment the student could find it here without having to purchase the book plus get extra information about that book.
There is just so much information in these data bases that it blows me away. I think the hardest thing is knowing just what excatly the student is looking for so that you send them on the right path. A lot of time can be wasted looking in the wrong place, just because of the vast amount of thing to choose from.
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