Lesson 10 Wrap Up
1. I had never been in CAMIO and thought it was a great place. It will be a place that I will suggest to the teachers because they now work art into their regular schedule. I just enjoyed the art work and looking at different things in there. I used many more sites than I had before this class and they were all interesting. I compared many of the sites with the same words and found that useful in deciding which sites that I will go to first. I could have spent much more time each week but with it getting near the end of the year I had too many other things to do. I tried not too spend too much time each week. It was interesting becaue I was also using the sites for my 6th grade classes and most of the time I had to do the lesson for my 6th graders before this lesson. I usually found many more things I could have used which will be good for next year. I also learned that I can spend much more time getting around these sites and learn something everytime I go there.
2. I have already passed many sites on to the teachers. I know they get busy and forget to look in these places so I just need to remind them more often to use the databases. They are a wonderful service that is provided for our library. I do go thourgh the databases with many of the jr. high and high school students. We always look at them before they start research papers, speech, and this year we used Learning Express Library with the 7th grade study class. I have been pushing the use of these data bases for many years but I know that they are still very underused.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lesson 9: History and Genealogy Resources:
1. I could not come up with any information abut me but I put in my mother and came up with her whole family. Kind of a shock to see it all right there. Because I just do not have time this week, my husband is in the hospital, I am going to just do bare bones. If I had time I would look them all up and go further back but not this week. It will happen another time.
2. I put in my Dad's mother and found 90 Katherine Munsch's. I wonder how many more I would have found if I had put it in as Catherine. I did find her listed in Walworth County, SD and her death date is correct. I didn't remember her birth date and would have had to look that up at home. 1892 was her birthdate and that would be right because my dad was born in 1921. I noticed a lot of the listings had husbands but her's did not.
3. There were 10 picture catagories. The most pictures found in the Yearbook catagory. I went back again and put in my maiden name but still got no hits, which surprised me since I had gone to college in South Dakota.
The next thing I looked at was All Stories, Memories and Histories. Here things were again divided into may more catagories. When I got into this it gave the person that did this story and then where they were from and since we were in the South Dakota location they had to have some association with South Dakota. I counted 12 more subdivisions here alone.
4. I put in Alcester and did a search but was not very lucky. I found 5 articles but in looking at them really did not find anything about Alcester. The first article was by a person from Kentucky and I could not find any relationship. The last article was by a person that lived in this southeastern area. It is interesting to look at what people wrote and how these documents have passed knowledge down to us.
5. I did not have very good luck here. Alcester was not listed and so I tried Beresford and Eureka. I am not familiar enough with either that I knew what buildings to look for. I also found those maps very hard to read and when I zoomed in the I lost so much. This would take a lot of patience to learn how to get around in these.
I did learn that not every community in South Dakota is listed in these maps.
1. I could not come up with any information abut me but I put in my mother and came up with her whole family. Kind of a shock to see it all right there. Because I just do not have time this week, my husband is in the hospital, I am going to just do bare bones. If I had time I would look them all up and go further back but not this week. It will happen another time.
2. I put in my Dad's mother and found 90 Katherine Munsch's. I wonder how many more I would have found if I had put it in as Catherine. I did find her listed in Walworth County, SD and her death date is correct. I didn't remember her birth date and would have had to look that up at home. 1892 was her birthdate and that would be right because my dad was born in 1921. I noticed a lot of the listings had husbands but her's did not.
3. There were 10 picture catagories. The most pictures found in the Yearbook catagory. I went back again and put in my maiden name but still got no hits, which surprised me since I had gone to college in South Dakota.
The next thing I looked at was All Stories, Memories and Histories. Here things were again divided into may more catagories. When I got into this it gave the person that did this story and then where they were from and since we were in the South Dakota location they had to have some association with South Dakota. I counted 12 more subdivisions here alone.
4. I put in Alcester and did a search but was not very lucky. I found 5 articles but in looking at them really did not find anything about Alcester. The first article was by a person from Kentucky and I could not find any relationship. The last article was by a person that lived in this southeastern area. It is interesting to look at what people wrote and how these documents have passed knowledge down to us.
5. I did not have very good luck here. Alcester was not listed and so I tried Beresford and Eureka. I am not familiar enough with either that I knew what buildings to look for. I also found those maps very hard to read and when I zoomed in the I lost so much. This would take a lot of patience to learn how to get around in these.
I did learn that not every community in South Dakota is listed in these maps.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Lesson 8 ArchiveGrid and Camio
ArchiveGrid
1. I learned that Sitting Bull's birthdate is not sure. A ? is used with the date.
He was also known as Tataanka lyotake or Tatanka and that he was greatly opposed on several occasions.
He was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and he greatly opposted white man. After the Little Bighorn he moved his tribe to Canada.
After he surrendered he was in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
He was finally killed when he refused to abondon the ritual Ghost Dance which had been outlawed.
Information about Sitting Bull can be obtained from Cornell University Library and it give a complete call number and tells me about the collection from which the information comes.
2. Because I like to compare all of these databases I put in Johannes Kepler again. I was pleased to come up with 23 articles. Upon looking at them a lot of them were letters and manuscripts that Kepler had with other scientists.
The articles were housed in many different places.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Smithsonian Institution
Harvard University
Getty Rsearch Institute had a videorecording (14 min)
Huntington Library
University of Nevada, Reno the article took me to their homepage
Princeton University also got their homepage.
It seems like you would really have to be doing an indepth study of the subject matter to use this source because you have to contact the place that houses the material and request the document from them. With it not offering a full text it makes it more difficult than some of the other sources.
Camio
1. There were 35 articles shown. Some were pictures of Paul Revere done by other artists, but there were a lot of his silversmith objects. Much of the collection is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I did find one painting "The Boston Massacre" that listed Paul Revere as the artist. There was also one peice of the silversmit found in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. When I clicked on the object the photo was great. It Showed so much detail in this very beautiful peice. As you went down the entry it listed who had donated the object and also the collection that it is found in. There are many lovely peices.
2. This was an interesting grouping. There were many kinds of mediums used. I found sculputre, Costume and Jewelry, Textiles, Photos, Prints and many paintings. Some of the paintings has artists listed but many times it just said Sioux. Some were listed as books which was also interesting. The major places that held the items were the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. There were a few peices in other museums also. They were very interesting peices.
3. I put in Grandma Moses just to see what would come up. I got one entry and found her name. Then I tried it again with her name. I got the same picture again. It is found in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There was only one thing avaiilable. I thought there might have been more, so it was interesting.
4. We no longer have art taught in our schools so it could be a good resource if classroom teachers want to teach about artists without having a lot of book available.
5. I put in Van Gogh this time and came up with 48 works. It was fun to play around moving things. I liked the Zoom in and Out. It was interesting to watch the paint strokes and how alike they were in some of the pictures. Seeing things up that close was a nice experienc. It would be a nice way again for a teacher to set up some lessons showing these paintings in a slideshow or to really look at them up close. I could see this being used as a program for a service club. Bring in the members, open the computers and let them go on a tour of an artist. There are just so many things available in these databases that people do not know about. I had never been to this database either and could really spend a lot of time here.
ArchiveGrid
1. I learned that Sitting Bull's birthdate is not sure. A ? is used with the date.
He was also known as Tataanka lyotake or Tatanka and that he was greatly opposed on several occasions.
He was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and he greatly opposted white man. After the Little Bighorn he moved his tribe to Canada.
After he surrendered he was in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
He was finally killed when he refused to abondon the ritual Ghost Dance which had been outlawed.
Information about Sitting Bull can be obtained from Cornell University Library and it give a complete call number and tells me about the collection from which the information comes.
2. Because I like to compare all of these databases I put in Johannes Kepler again. I was pleased to come up with 23 articles. Upon looking at them a lot of them were letters and manuscripts that Kepler had with other scientists.
The articles were housed in many different places.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Smithsonian Institution
Harvard University
Getty Rsearch Institute had a videorecording (14 min)
Huntington Library
University of Nevada, Reno the article took me to their homepage
Princeton University also got their homepage.
It seems like you would really have to be doing an indepth study of the subject matter to use this source because you have to contact the place that houses the material and request the document from them. With it not offering a full text it makes it more difficult than some of the other sources.
Camio
1. There were 35 articles shown. Some were pictures of Paul Revere done by other artists, but there were a lot of his silversmith objects. Much of the collection is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I did find one painting "The Boston Massacre" that listed Paul Revere as the artist. There was also one peice of the silversmit found in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. When I clicked on the object the photo was great. It Showed so much detail in this very beautiful peice. As you went down the entry it listed who had donated the object and also the collection that it is found in. There are many lovely peices.
2. This was an interesting grouping. There were many kinds of mediums used. I found sculputre, Costume and Jewelry, Textiles, Photos, Prints and many paintings. Some of the paintings has artists listed but many times it just said Sioux. Some were listed as books which was also interesting. The major places that held the items were the Smithsonian, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. There were a few peices in other museums also. They were very interesting peices.
3. I put in Grandma Moses just to see what would come up. I got one entry and found her name. Then I tried it again with her name. I got the same picture again. It is found in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There was only one thing avaiilable. I thought there might have been more, so it was interesting.
4. We no longer have art taught in our schools so it could be a good resource if classroom teachers want to teach about artists without having a lot of book available.
5. I put in Van Gogh this time and came up with 48 works. It was fun to play around moving things. I liked the Zoom in and Out. It was interesting to watch the paint strokes and how alike they were in some of the pictures. Seeing things up that close was a nice experienc. It would be a nice way again for a teacher to set up some lessons showing these paintings in a slideshow or to really look at them up close. I could see this being used as a program for a service club. Bring in the members, open the computers and let them go on a tour of an artist. There are just so many things available in these databases that people do not know about. I had never been to this database either and could really spend a lot of time here.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Lesson 7: Exercise part 1
1. This advanced search screen is the one I always use. It has such a great variety of ways of searching. I usually use the ISBN number when I catalogue new books. I just have to scan that number in and it pops right up. I have never noticed the musical composition one but I have never looked for this type of material.
2. I put in Green Eggs and Ham and got 147 results. 124 of these were in English. I clicked in and the South Dakota libraries were listed first and Alexander Mitchell Library was the very first on the list.
3. Call number is : LC PZ8.3 G276; PS2523.E2 Dewey: E
There were 4,477 search results when I clicked on Dr. Seuss
On subjects:
Food Preferences: 40
Children's stories: 85,467
Readers: 216,477
Vocabulary 51,787
The Citation was given so if you had to cite the book this would be useful to a student.
You can get all the information to catalogue the book in your own library.
It gave a Vendor so if you need to buy it you can contact them.
It gave a physical discription of the book, so you know it's size.
Discovery Exercise part 2
When I put in South Dakota I came up with 827 results. I went to an article intitled Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming. It told me that it had 54 pages in the article and it told me that it was free to search and download.
Next I changed the database to MEDLINE and put in cancer. I got 1,278,533 results. I just chose the 3rd article down and went into Fruit and Vegetable Intake. This told me that the article was from a journal and gave me a http:// address. I clicked in and there was a nice abstract, which if you just needed a little more information would have worked great. I did click into the full text article and then you needed a password to go further. From just using the World Cat index you could get just enough information to use as a source if you needed more sources than what you had on hand.
I thought this was easy to use and get around in. I have used this source to order books and catalogue both so it was not a new thing for me. However, I have never changed any of the setting so it was a good experience to get in and do some of that.
From looking at some of the other blogs I found people had some of the same observations that I had found. Someone else found the musical composition interesting.
1. This advanced search screen is the one I always use. It has such a great variety of ways of searching. I usually use the ISBN number when I catalogue new books. I just have to scan that number in and it pops right up. I have never noticed the musical composition one but I have never looked for this type of material.
2. I put in Green Eggs and Ham and got 147 results. 124 of these were in English. I clicked in and the South Dakota libraries were listed first and Alexander Mitchell Library was the very first on the list.
3. Call number is : LC PZ8.3 G276; PS2523.E2 Dewey: E
There were 4,477 search results when I clicked on Dr. Seuss
On subjects:
Food Preferences: 40
Children's stories: 85,467
Readers: 216,477
Vocabulary 51,787
The Citation was given so if you had to cite the book this would be useful to a student.
You can get all the information to catalogue the book in your own library.
It gave a Vendor so if you need to buy it you can contact them.
It gave a physical discription of the book, so you know it's size.
Discovery Exercise part 2
When I put in South Dakota I came up with 827 results. I went to an article intitled Sweet Clover in Great Plains Farming. It told me that it had 54 pages in the article and it told me that it was free to search and download.
Next I changed the database to MEDLINE and put in cancer. I got 1,278,533 results. I just chose the 3rd article down and went into Fruit and Vegetable Intake. This told me that the article was from a journal and gave me a http:// address. I clicked in and there was a nice abstract, which if you just needed a little more information would have worked great. I did click into the full text article and then you needed a password to go further. From just using the World Cat index you could get just enough information to use as a source if you needed more sources than what you had on hand.
I thought this was easy to use and get around in. I have used this source to order books and catalogue both so it was not a new thing for me. However, I have never changed any of the setting so it was a good experience to get in and do some of that.
From looking at some of the other blogs I found people had some of the same observations that I had found. Someone else found the musical composition interesting.
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