NetLibrary offers Full-Text access to over 12,000 books appropriate for grades 6 through 12, and adult. I like the features of NetLibrary's panel on the left of the screen that allows direct access to contents, e-content details (which lists author, publication, product ID, ebook ISBN, subject, language), and options offfers add to favorites, Email information. The notes tab allows you to create an account so one can use NetLibrary from home. The dictionary tab pulls up 4th Ed. dictionary, Rogets thesaurus, English to Spanish and Spanish to English. Currently viewing lists where you are right now and lists where you have been searching. Back to search results transports you right back to your list of books. Very easy to use!
I learned in Lesson 3--ProQuest searches that "one-half of all our citizens are touched by divorce in their lifetimes." (Joseph N. DuCanto)
1. This 2010 summer, divorce has entered my life. One friend and a close family member are both going through divorce, plus, as a school teacher/librarian, I work with students whose parents have divorced, or are going through divorce. These students show signs of preoccupation and struggle to do school work. Their faces are always sad. So, I remain focused on divorce as the topic of interest. Full-Text divorce produced 5,511 ebooks. Keyword divorce resulted in 15 ebooks.
Of the 15 ebooks, I spent considerable time reading the following 4 ebooks and taking notes: The Divorce Mediation Handbook: Everything You Need to Know by Paula James. Publication: San Francisco, Calif. Jossey BAss, 1997. I was not aware of "divorce mediation" until I read this book. The author says 80% of divorcing couples are better off mediating. The mediator is someone who is neutral and can encourage a calm discussion of the parties' needs and concerns rather than jockeying for position status in negotiations as is done by the lawyer. Women need to remember that they must say what they want because men are inclined to negotiate. The book contains sample stories to illustrate points made.
Coping With Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage: A risk and Resiliency Perspective by Mavis E. Hetherington. Publication: Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Eribaum Associates, Inc., 1999, has 14 chapters. I focused on Part III, chapter 6, Father Absence and the Welfare of Children, p.117. Children who grow up apart from their biological fathers do less well, are less likely to finish high school and attend college, less likely to find and keep a steady job, and the girls more likely to become teen mothers. Why? Fathers who live apart from their children are less likely to share their income with the children, the mother's and child's standard of living declines, parental time and supervision is less. To maintain regular routines and systems of supervision is very hard to achieve in one-parent families.
Helping Children Cope With Divorce by Edward Teyber. Publication: San Francisco, Calif. Jossey Bass, 2001. Young children have limited thinking abilities and time frame. They have not learned how to project themselves hours and days into the future. (p.32). "The attachment bonds we form with our parents when we are children are the essence of what is most human about us." (p. 35) From these early attachments, we develop the capacities to feel empathy, compassion, and love for others. Separation anxieties are intense for adults as well as children. Grandparents' roles and responsibilities and financial obligations to younger generations are touched upon in this book. Persons over 65 years of age control about 30% of all family networth in the United States and will represent 20% of the population by the year 2030. (p. 62).
The Eureka School libraries have 2 books on divorce, one in each library. NetLibrary has come to the rescue big time! Thank you, NetLibrary!!
Fighting for Your Marriage: Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love by Howard Markman, Scott Stanley, and Susan L. Blumberg. Publication: San Francisco, Calif. Jossey Bass, 1994. This book lists 4 harmful conversation patterns, uses conversations of couples arguing as examples, and tells what to do to stop these harmful patterns with examples demonstating what to say. (1.) Escalation. To Stop:Steer out of pattern, use softer voice, end on positive note. (p.17) (2.) Invalidation: Painful Put-Downs. To Stop: Show respect for and acknowledge the other's point of view. Don't have to agree, but respect and listen. (p. 20) (3.a) Withdrawal and Avoidance: Hide and Seek. This pattern is one of the most powerful predictors of unhappiness and divorce. (p.22) It gets worse if allowed to continue. Pursuers push more to get an issue discussed and withdrawers withdraw more. (p.32).(3.b) Physical Violence and Healthy Withdrawal. If conflict escalates to physical aggression, withdrawal is better. To Stop: Have to agree to stop the pattern. Set up a time when both agree on a comfortable time to face the issue. (4.)Negative Interpretations: When Preception is Worse than Realty. (p.25) I found this book to be an excellent source for handling conflict, dealing with issues, expectations, committments and more!
2. Constitution Day Full-Text resulted in 1,067 ebooks, pulling up Martin Luther King Day as well. "Constitution Day" Full-Text resulted in 21 ebooks and pulled up constitution day in other countries, too. I selected Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture. SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism by Daniel Lessard Levin. Publication: Albany State University of New York Press, 1999. The Search within this ebook feature will take you directly to the page where your search terms are found. I found this reference to be profound, detailing the struggles to even get a Constitution Day established, the troubles of trying to define a concept, a document, how to personify the Constitution to advertize and promote it. Pages 3-6, 14-22, 53-60 (Marketing the Constitution) certainly broadened my view and understandings of what the Commission on the Bicentennial had to do to promote the Bicentennial!
In past years in grade 6, I have taught a unit on the Bill of Rights and the ten amendments. I used 6 print references, and the lesson plans from The Constitution and Bill of Rights: An Institute for Secondary and Upper Elementary Teachers. We the People... Lesson Plans Submitted to the Commisssion on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution by the University of South Dakota. 1992.
Full-Text Bill of Rights 1,100 ebooks. Listing each amendment in quotation marks, Full-Text "First Amendment" 298 ebooks. The results ranged from 6 ebooks for "Twelfth Amendment" to 209 ebooks for "Fourteenth Amendment." Full-Text "Articles of Confederation" 94 ebooks.
Listing only titles and not all the bibliographical data for each book, I found the following 10 books of value: 1. The Articles of Confederation. 2. The Federalist Papers. 3. The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History [Part 3: Building the House. Chapter 11. From Many, One (1787-1797)] [The Articles of Confederation led to the Constitution, to the Electoral college, George Washington set the qualities for President.] 4. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents. 5. The Bill of Rights: A Bicentennial Assessment. 6.Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton. 7. Let's Celebrate Today: Calendars, Events and Holidays.
8. Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Report, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920. 9. The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System. 10.
Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce. A tremendous amount of resources to augment the libraries, American History and government classes and more. Thank you, NetLibrary!
3. Full-Text western AND history Publisher Nebraska resulted in 43 ebooks. Full-Text "Western History" Publisher Nebraska pulled up 13 ebooks. What a find! Thank you! I do like to read about Native Americans. Joseph M. Marshall III is one of my favorite authors. I selected the following 5 books to browse. Again, I will only list titles. I will return to this search again for some more great ebook reading!
a. Great Western Indian Fights by B. W. Allred. 1966. This book has maps. The Bozeman Trail, 1866-1868. b. Letters of Mari Sandoz by Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer. 1992. I found most intriguing. c. From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was by Charles W. Allen. Edited with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen. 1997. What a life! What a book! It took years to find a publisher. Allen was a survivor of the Battle of Wounded Knee and married into the Oglala Sioux Tribe. From eyewitnesses, as well as his own experiences, Allen describes the battle. A third of the book is devoted to events leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
d. Old Deadwood Days by Estelline Bennett. 1982. The earliest print of Deadwood Gulch shows burned out timber on the hillside, which gave the place its name. (p.20). e. The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing. Again, NetLibrary has increased our "holdings" a thousandfold! Thank you!
These databases just keep getting better and better. Thank you for offering this Challenge: Electronic Resources Edition.
And it is a challenge, as I am still doing inventory/weeding in the elementary library, and have yet to get back to the high school library's inventory/weeding, plus am also deep into doing automation via ResourceMate. The school board has hired a retired English teacher to help, but I have to be here to answer her questions and explain how cataloging works! It's working! :)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Lesson 4--Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library--75 titles of publications divided into 11 categories of Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Nation and World, Religion, Science, Social Science, make up the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
1. I chose the science publication, Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton, 3 volumes, c2006. Browsing through the Table of Contents, I looked at The Periodical Table Revised. I then chose the 7 page article, "Radon (Revised)," original copyright 1999 U-X-L, c2005 Gale, Cengage Learning, and updated in 2006 for the ebook edition, Volume 3.
"Radon (Revised)" is divided into 11 sections: Overview, Discovery and Naming, Physical Properties [my note=colorless, odorless, 7 times as dense as air], Chemical Properties, Radon the Secret Visitor [my note=can be hiding in the basement of one's home. A gas, it floats upward from uranium found in the Earth's crust. Radon gives off radiation that kills cells. Radon kits can be used to check a home for radon.],Occurrence in Nature, Isotopes, Extraction, Uses, Compounds, Health Effects.
For 3 years, the science teacher and I had been building the science core collection in the High School Library. In May 2009, I had ordered one set of 6 books in the series Understanding the Elements of the Periodical Table (Reading Level 6, Interest Level 5-8) by the Rosen Publishing Group. Students, in their browsing, had gotten quite excited about easily learning more about the elements. She wanted to use these colorful reference books to inspire the chemistry students for their report projects she was planning to do.
Comparing the 47 page book Radon by Janey Levy, published by Rosen to the 7 page article with 11 sections published by Gale, the book has colorful pictures and illustrations and 12 features: Introduction, 5 chapters, the Periodical Tale of Elements, Glossary, Sources for more information, Further Reading, Web sites, Bibliography, Index. The book details information on radon in buildings, how to use the radon kit, how to reduce radon in one's house. In May 2010, I'd ordered all the rest of the 8 sets , only to have the Supt. cancel the entire order, because the science teacher is no longer on staff. So, I will be showing the new science teacher the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Not so sure Gale replaces Rosen, but until another science teacher requests Rosen, Gale will be #1 in science core collection for now. I also pulled up Gale's "Neon (Revised)" and "Argon (Revised)." Each element's information is presented in the same 11 section titles as Radon.
2. "Basic Search" has several tools: Print Preview, e-mail , Download, Download MP3, Citation Tools, and a translation feature to translate text into Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish!
Using "Basic Search," to answer the question, "What foods have zinc in them?", I typed zinc and 164 books was the result. I narrowed the search by typing foods with zinc and the following 5 books were the result:
(1) Dupler, Douglas. "Nutritional Supplements" The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol. 4. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p2648-2652. No food sources listed.
(2) Rowland, Belinda. "Taste Alteration." The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer. Ed. Jacqueline L. Longe. Vol. 2. end ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1170-1171. Yes. Foods that are rich in zinc include oysters, crab, beef, pork, eggs, nuts, yogurt, and whole grains.
(3) Brody, Tom and Samuel Uretsky. "Minerals." The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolsecence. Ed. Kristine Krapp and Jeffrey Wilson. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1186-1188. Yes. Best foods for zinc are lamb, beef, leafy grains, root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, shell fish, organ meats such as liver or kidneys. Then, going all the way to the index at the end of this "Minerals" article to "Zinc, sources of" 3: 1182; 4:1912, I clicked on each one to be connected directly to 2 other references: one in Vol 3. Brewers yeast, eggs, fish, meats, beans, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, whole grains. Vol.3 p. 1176-1182; and the other one in Vol 4. "Vegeterianism" zinc is abundant in nuts, pumpkin seeds, beans, whole grains, and tofu. Vol. 4 p1912.
(4) Tran, Mai and Teresa G. Odle. "Nutrition." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol.4 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p2643-2647. No food sources listed, but emphasizes that good nutrition promotes health and helps prevent disease and lists and explains the 6 categories of nutrients: protein, carbohydrates, fats, fibers, vitamins and minerals and water. Near the end of the article, it lists side effects of too much Vit. A, B1, B6, Vit. C, Vit. D, phosphorus and zinc. Too much zinc, a trace mineral, can affect absorption of copper and iron and suppresses the immune system. Trace minerals "participate in most chemical reactions in the body"...and "are needed to manufacture important horomones."
(5) Dupler, Douglas. "Detoxification." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol. 2. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1148-1151. No food sources listed. Spoke of zinc deficiency.
I could not get the read speaker to work for me. I looked like it was working, but no volume. Were these articles all MLA?
Then, I went back to the "Basic Search" of 164 books, chose "Minerals" The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. and changed the zinc search to "within this volume" and pulled up 11 areas where zinc is mentioned: Minerals, Mineral Deficiency, Mineral Toxicity, Heavy Metal Poisoning, Gastritis, Macular Degeneration. [Vol 3. p2303-2306. my note=most common cause of legal blindness in people over 60. 28% of population over age 74 are affected by this disease. Alternative treatment: beta carotene, mixed carotenoids, Vit. A,C,E, selenium, zinc. Food sources for zinc: citrus fruits, cauliflower, broccoli, nuts, seeds, orange and yellow vegetables (carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash) cherries, black berries, blueberries]. Gonorrhea, Menstrual Disorders, Genital Herpes, Juvenile Arthritis.
Could not get the "read to me" feature to work. Will have to work on this later :) Enough already! :)
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1. I chose the science publication, Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton, 3 volumes, c2006. Browsing through the Table of Contents, I looked at The Periodical Table Revised. I then chose the 7 page article, "Radon (Revised)," original copyright 1999 U-X-L, c2005 Gale, Cengage Learning, and updated in 2006 for the ebook edition, Volume 3.
"Radon (Revised)" is divided into 11 sections: Overview, Discovery and Naming, Physical Properties [my note=colorless, odorless, 7 times as dense as air], Chemical Properties, Radon the Secret Visitor [my note=can be hiding in the basement of one's home. A gas, it floats upward from uranium found in the Earth's crust. Radon gives off radiation that kills cells. Radon kits can be used to check a home for radon.],Occurrence in Nature, Isotopes, Extraction, Uses, Compounds, Health Effects.
For 3 years, the science teacher and I had been building the science core collection in the High School Library. In May 2009, I had ordered one set of 6 books in the series Understanding the Elements of the Periodical Table (Reading Level 6, Interest Level 5-8) by the Rosen Publishing Group. Students, in their browsing, had gotten quite excited about easily learning more about the elements. She wanted to use these colorful reference books to inspire the chemistry students for their report projects she was planning to do.
Comparing the 47 page book Radon by Janey Levy, published by Rosen to the 7 page article with 11 sections published by Gale, the book has colorful pictures and illustrations and 12 features: Introduction, 5 chapters, the Periodical Tale of Elements, Glossary, Sources for more information, Further Reading, Web sites, Bibliography, Index. The book details information on radon in buildings, how to use the radon kit, how to reduce radon in one's house. In May 2010, I'd ordered all the rest of the 8 sets , only to have the Supt. cancel the entire order, because the science teacher is no longer on staff. So, I will be showing the new science teacher the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Not so sure Gale replaces Rosen, but until another science teacher requests Rosen, Gale will be #1 in science core collection for now. I also pulled up Gale's "Neon (Revised)" and "Argon (Revised)." Each element's information is presented in the same 11 section titles as Radon.
2. "Basic Search" has several tools: Print Preview, e-mail , Download, Download MP3, Citation Tools, and a translation feature to translate text into Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish!
Using "Basic Search," to answer the question, "What foods have zinc in them?", I typed zinc and 164 books was the result. I narrowed the search by typing foods with zinc and the following 5 books were the result:
(1) Dupler, Douglas. "Nutritional Supplements" The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol. 4. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p2648-2652. No food sources listed.
(2) Rowland, Belinda. "Taste Alteration." The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer. Ed. Jacqueline L. Longe. Vol. 2. end ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1170-1171. Yes. Foods that are rich in zinc include oysters, crab, beef, pork, eggs, nuts, yogurt, and whole grains.
(3) Brody, Tom and Samuel Uretsky. "Minerals." The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolsecence. Ed. Kristine Krapp and Jeffrey Wilson. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1186-1188. Yes. Best foods for zinc are lamb, beef, leafy grains, root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, shell fish, organ meats such as liver or kidneys. Then, going all the way to the index at the end of this "Minerals" article to "Zinc, sources of" 3: 1182; 4:1912, I clicked on each one to be connected directly to 2 other references: one in Vol 3. Brewers yeast, eggs, fish, meats, beans, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, whole grains. Vol.3 p. 1176-1182; and the other one in Vol 4. "Vegeterianism" zinc is abundant in nuts, pumpkin seeds, beans, whole grains, and tofu. Vol. 4 p1912.
(4) Tran, Mai and Teresa G. Odle. "Nutrition." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol.4 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p2643-2647. No food sources listed, but emphasizes that good nutrition promotes health and helps prevent disease and lists and explains the 6 categories of nutrients: protein, carbohydrates, fats, fibers, vitamins and minerals and water. Near the end of the article, it lists side effects of too much Vit. A, B1, B6, Vit. C, Vit. D, phosphorus and zinc. Too much zinc, a trace mineral, can affect absorption of copper and iron and suppresses the immune system. Trace minerals "participate in most chemical reactions in the body"...and "are needed to manufacture important horomones."
(5) Dupler, Douglas. "Detoxification." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Vol. 2. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p1148-1151. No food sources listed. Spoke of zinc deficiency.
I could not get the read speaker to work for me. I looked like it was working, but no volume. Were these articles all MLA?
Then, I went back to the "Basic Search" of 164 books, chose "Minerals" The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. and changed the zinc search to "within this volume" and pulled up 11 areas where zinc is mentioned: Minerals, Mineral Deficiency, Mineral Toxicity, Heavy Metal Poisoning, Gastritis, Macular Degeneration. [Vol 3. p2303-2306. my note=most common cause of legal blindness in people over 60. 28% of population over age 74 are affected by this disease. Alternative treatment: beta carotene, mixed carotenoids, Vit. A,C,E, selenium, zinc. Food sources for zinc: citrus fruits, cauliflower, broccoli, nuts, seeds, orange and yellow vegetables (carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash) cherries, black berries, blueberries]. Gonorrhea, Menstrual Disorders, Genital Herpes, Juvenile Arthritis.
Could not get the "read to me" feature to work. Will have to work on this later :) Enough already! :)
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Lesson 3--ProQuest
ProQuest--1. Over 1700 magazines, journals, and newspapers are in this database with amazing articles on any subject in the world!
A basic search on divorce found 19,735 documents, all sources, full text: 4053 magazines, 2958 trade publications, 551 newpapers, 1 book, 15 reference and reports.
Clicking on the first article, "Interview: Rebecca L. Davis" by Linda Lee, American History. Harrisburg:Aug 2010. Vol. 45, Iss. 3; pg.12, 2pgs. was 13 questions and answers, a historical view from British settlers in colonial America to historical origins of marriage counseling to what was considered an ideal marriage in the 1940s and 1950s to more marriage counseling progress to marriage and social stablity. Americans are not good at staying married, but still want to remarry.
Limiting the search to only Scholarly journals resulted in 3002 documents. "Divorce & Poverty are Often Synonymous" by Joseph N. DuCanto, Attorney At Law, was most educational. He says that one-half of all our citizens are touched by divorce during their lifetimes, yet "the money and research surrounding the impact of this phenomenon in our society is annually less than that spent on a single day of warfare in Iraq." American Journal of Family Law. Eau Claire: Summer 2010 Vol. 24 Iss.2 pg.87, 8pgs.
Limiting my search to divorce and effect on children produced 506 documents.
I found the 18 pages of Search Tips to be most helpful and informative. One needs to know what one is looking for and to be able to use the terms/words to narrow the search to be able to receive desired results.
2. Clicking on the Publications tab in the line-up of choices offered,
Basic, Advanced, Topics, Publications, My Research, I selected L see how many magazines have Library as their first title word and found 14. Under A, I only found American Libraries. I then selected I , looked for the magazine, Interior Design and typed in libraries in the search field. Results: 3 most interesting articles of varying length. "Libraries Abound" by Laura Fisher Kaiser. Interior Design. New York: May 2007. Vol. 78, Iss. 7 pg.244. "Ligraries are reinventing themselves..."
"New Edition" by M. Lindsay Bierman. Interior Design. New York: Mar 1997. Vol. 68. Iss. 4 pg. 144, 8 pages. "Contrary to what reclusive, technology-obsessed zealots of home computers and the Internet will tell you, public libraries have not become obsolete."
"Ex Libris" by Monica Geran. Interior Design. New York: Oct 2002. Vol. 73 Iss. 10; pg. 192, 6 pages. A photo tour of the New York State Education Building in Albany converted a vaulted library into office space for 200 open-plan work spaces, 20 private offices...architects, engineers, nurses, podiatrists. "The finished restoration won citations from Historic Albany Foundation and the Preservation League of New York State. "
Ah, most satisfying to renovate and restore instead of tearing down!
My Research tab carries the listing of my searches. If I were doing a research project, I would have marked each article I wanted to use. This is one of the best databases, next to SIRS.
A basic search on divorce found 19,735 documents, all sources, full text: 4053 magazines, 2958 trade publications, 551 newpapers, 1 book, 15 reference and reports.
Clicking on the first article, "Interview: Rebecca L. Davis" by Linda Lee, American History. Harrisburg:Aug 2010. Vol. 45, Iss. 3; pg.12, 2pgs. was 13 questions and answers, a historical view from British settlers in colonial America to historical origins of marriage counseling to what was considered an ideal marriage in the 1940s and 1950s to more marriage counseling progress to marriage and social stablity. Americans are not good at staying married, but still want to remarry.
Limiting the search to only Scholarly journals resulted in 3002 documents. "Divorce & Poverty are Often Synonymous" by Joseph N. DuCanto, Attorney At Law, was most educational. He says that one-half of all our citizens are touched by divorce during their lifetimes, yet "the money and research surrounding the impact of this phenomenon in our society is annually less than that spent on a single day of warfare in Iraq." American Journal of Family Law. Eau Claire: Summer 2010 Vol. 24 Iss.2 pg.87, 8pgs.
Limiting my search to divorce and effect on children produced 506 documents.
I found the 18 pages of Search Tips to be most helpful and informative. One needs to know what one is looking for and to be able to use the terms/words to narrow the search to be able to receive desired results.
2. Clicking on the Publications tab in the line-up of choices offered,
Basic, Advanced, Topics, Publications, My Research, I selected L see how many magazines have Library as their first title word and found 14. Under A, I only found American Libraries. I then selected I , looked for the magazine, Interior Design and typed in libraries in the search field. Results: 3 most interesting articles of varying length. "Libraries Abound" by Laura Fisher Kaiser. Interior Design. New York: May 2007. Vol. 78, Iss. 7 pg.244. "Ligraries are reinventing themselves..."
"New Edition" by M. Lindsay Bierman. Interior Design. New York: Mar 1997. Vol. 68. Iss. 4 pg. 144, 8 pages. "Contrary to what reclusive, technology-obsessed zealots of home computers and the Internet will tell you, public libraries have not become obsolete."
"Ex Libris" by Monica Geran. Interior Design. New York: Oct 2002. Vol. 73 Iss. 10; pg. 192, 6 pages. A photo tour of the New York State Education Building in Albany converted a vaulted library into office space for 200 open-plan work spaces, 20 private offices...architects, engineers, nurses, podiatrists. "The finished restoration won citations from Historic Albany Foundation and the Preservation League of New York State. "
Ah, most satisfying to renovate and restore instead of tearing down!
My Research tab carries the listing of my searches. If I were doing a research project, I would have marked each article I wanted to use. This is one of the best databases, next to SIRS.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Lesson 2--SIRS Researcher
SIRS--Researcher (grades 6-12)-- From the leading issues list (I printed out the 3-page A-Z list!), I chose the topic of divorce with results of 25 matching subjects, 80 newspapers, 41 magazines, 18 viewpoints, 7 reference, 39 graphic media, 3 Web select sites.
Under Topic Overview is a listing of the following : Terms to Know, an Introduction, and Further Research subtopics. Further Research topics lists Pro/Con Issues, Events (legal acts), Key figures, Organization, Primary Sources. Under Primary Sources, I chose to investigate "Remarks by the President and First Lady at White House Conference on Child Care" and discovered it was Hillary Clinton speaking on October 23, 1997! An acceptable article if one is focusing on the history aspect of divorce/families. Key Figures also goes back in time to Civil War era.
On the home page of SIRS Researcher, I liked the interactive audio feature which answered the question, "Is separation and divorce harmful to children?" Ans. All human beings are resilient and are created to land on their feet. How separation and divorce are handled makes all the difference. Children's exposure to conflict, arguing, and contentious phone calls between parents is harmful to children.
Searching through the links under Research Tools was most interesting. Topic Overview is presented again, along with Time line with dates from 1624 to 2010 including links to other sites. Subjects listed more articles, Global Impact had articles on effect on families/divorce and the differences in other cultures RE: marriage. Statistics. My Analysis includes a Research Guide for the Critical Thinker: Step 1 Pick a Topic. Step 2 Develop Basic Knowledge. Step 3 Selecting a Focus and Separating Fact and Opinion. Step 4 Writing a Thesis Statement... even includes a "formula to help compose your thesis." Clearly Stated Opinion+ Specific Supporting Arguments=Thesis. Step 5 Supporting Evidence & Drawing Conclusions. Step 6 Apply Your Knowledge. Key questions step one through the entire process of gathering resources, to writing, and doing a presentation. These make very effective handouts: Just answer the questions and fill in the blanks! But, I think I will need an in-service on how to do the note organizer.
On the home page of Pick A Topic which lists 6 questions to consider when deciding on a topic, there is also Additional Resources which lists 6 more wonderful aids: Research Guide for the Critical Thinker (See: 6 steps listed above). Writing a Mini-Research Paper lists 4 steps using the above 6 steps and includes a Final Written Report Template :) ! Creating a Powerpoint Presentation is helpful. Debate Guide outlines Student Steps in the Mini-Debate Process and includes the steps in Rounds 1-4 and time allotments. Academic Writing Help cut me off as our code was not accepted. I really like the SIRS Citation Guidelines (MLA, APA, or Turabian). Examples of all is clearly shown. "Readers may duplicate as needed" which I did!
More questions to peruse on the home page include "Should laws be enacted that make divorce harder to obtain? Yes/No. "Can the recession save marriage?" and sources to click on under each. I wandered into "Can the recession save marriage?" and clicked on Wall Street Journal Dec 11, 2009, W15 c2009. People are rediscovering the value of thrift, eat at home more often, restaurant sales fell in 2008 for the first time in 40 years, debt erodes the marital bond, assets solidify it. Americans are rediscovering how important family ties are in helping carry them financially, socially, emotionally through hard times. "Origins of Modern Divorce" by Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College, Olympia WA , Family Process Vol. 46, No.1 March 2007: 7-16. SIRS Researcher. Web 12 Jul 2010 is a very lengthy article with 17 references!
Enough already! Now, if you want to make a copy of South Dakota Libraries Guide to...SIRS Issues Researcher handout, be sure you use a color printer because the black words will not show up on the dark red panels because all will appear solid black on black and white!
Under Topic Overview is a listing of the following : Terms to Know, an Introduction, and Further Research subtopics. Further Research topics lists Pro/Con Issues, Events (legal acts), Key figures, Organization, Primary Sources. Under Primary Sources, I chose to investigate "Remarks by the President and First Lady at White House Conference on Child Care" and discovered it was Hillary Clinton speaking on October 23, 1997! An acceptable article if one is focusing on the history aspect of divorce/families. Key Figures also goes back in time to Civil War era.
On the home page of SIRS Researcher, I liked the interactive audio feature which answered the question, "Is separation and divorce harmful to children?" Ans. All human beings are resilient and are created to land on their feet. How separation and divorce are handled makes all the difference. Children's exposure to conflict, arguing, and contentious phone calls between parents is harmful to children.
Searching through the links under Research Tools was most interesting. Topic Overview is presented again, along with Time line with dates from 1624 to 2010 including links to other sites. Subjects listed more articles, Global Impact had articles on effect on families/divorce and the differences in other cultures RE: marriage. Statistics. My Analysis includes a Research Guide for the Critical Thinker: Step 1 Pick a Topic. Step 2 Develop Basic Knowledge. Step 3 Selecting a Focus and Separating Fact and Opinion. Step 4 Writing a Thesis Statement... even includes a "formula to help compose your thesis." Clearly Stated Opinion+ Specific Supporting Arguments=Thesis. Step 5 Supporting Evidence & Drawing Conclusions. Step 6 Apply Your Knowledge. Key questions step one through the entire process of gathering resources, to writing, and doing a presentation. These make very effective handouts: Just answer the questions and fill in the blanks! But, I think I will need an in-service on how to do the note organizer.
On the home page of Pick A Topic which lists 6 questions to consider when deciding on a topic, there is also Additional Resources which lists 6 more wonderful aids: Research Guide for the Critical Thinker (See: 6 steps listed above). Writing a Mini-Research Paper lists 4 steps using the above 6 steps and includes a Final Written Report Template :) ! Creating a Powerpoint Presentation is helpful. Debate Guide outlines Student Steps in the Mini-Debate Process and includes the steps in Rounds 1-4 and time allotments. Academic Writing Help cut me off as our code was not accepted. I really like the SIRS Citation Guidelines (MLA, APA, or Turabian). Examples of all is clearly shown. "Readers may duplicate as needed" which I did!
More questions to peruse on the home page include "Should laws be enacted that make divorce harder to obtain? Yes/No. "Can the recession save marriage?" and sources to click on under each. I wandered into "Can the recession save marriage?" and clicked on Wall Street Journal Dec 11, 2009, W15 c2009. People are rediscovering the value of thrift, eat at home more often, restaurant sales fell in 2008 for the first time in 40 years, debt erodes the marital bond, assets solidify it. Americans are rediscovering how important family ties are in helping carry them financially, socially, emotionally through hard times. "Origins of Modern Divorce" by Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College, Olympia WA , Family Process Vol. 46, No.1 March 2007: 7-16. SIRS Researcher. Web 12 Jul 2010 is a very lengthy article with 17 references!
Enough already! Now, if you want to make a copy of South Dakota Libraries Guide to...SIRS Issues Researcher handout, be sure you use a color printer because the black words will not show up on the dark red panels because all will appear solid black on black and white!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Lesson 2--SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Discoverer (grades K-9)-- 1. Warthog does not appear in the dictionary, but tarantula does. Age appropriate articles with Lexile Reading Levels indicated are well done and interesting!
2a.-- Country Facts-- Looking up Kuwait revealed the dateline from History 18th Century --2006. Economy, geography, weather, population, facts, flag and map of country are other features. I liked the graphic organizers available in 3 levels: easy, moderate and challenging which serve to record research results, and can be used as student study guides.
2b.--Maps of the World--Kuwait is listed twice: one in size small and one large map with more detail and easier to read. Dates of most maps of countries seemed to be 10 years old or older. Most research requirements state 5 years old or younger. To keep a database like this current must take thousands of man-hours!
2c.--Select one other area in Database Features led me on a journey to all areas: Pathfinders--Dinosaurs is a topic the Eureka School 8th grade science students do a unit on, coming into the libraries to find a book or books on their dinosaur. The SIRS Discoverer article, "Field Museum Cleans T. Rex Sue for Her Anniversary" King County Journal (Bellevue, WA) May 12, 2010 Lexile Score 1260 1K , reveals T. Rex Sue getting cleaned for her 10th anniversary celebration at Chicago's Field Museum. Sue was discovered in 1990 in South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. The Eureka Elementary Library has the book, A Dinosaur Named Sue: The Find of the Century by Fay Robinson with the Science Team of the Field Museum. Scholastic c1999 (Hello REader! Science Level 4) A wonderful story of Sue's discovery. Had a truck not gotten a flat tire, Sue and her dog would not have discovered T. Rex Sue! Activities-- This section contains so many activities: recipes, jokes, art projects, games, puzzles, and on and on, enough to keep kids occupied all summer long, winter weekends, and holidays! Biographies-- The instructions, "search the biographies by last name," could be made larger and bolder, but if a student types in first name, last name, the search results will reverse the name order so that the last name appears first, comma, first name and multiple results will be received.! Fool proof! :)Fiction--A section of delightful reading, and level rated, I learned some things: From "Plantains" by Morgan Perez, Jack and Jill Vol 72 No 2 Mar/Apr 2010, pp18-21. Plantains are part of the banana family, but must be cooked, and are usually fried. Recipe included. Article can be sent to one's e-mail. Photo Essays-- Pulling up Native Americans revealed a few sentences with photo. Possible use for grade 5 in their Native American studies. Pictures--Another resource for finding photos to use in reports. Educators' Resources--This feature is positively tops! Included here is the Educator's Guide Oneline, defining, explaining Subject Tree Searching, Subject Headings Searching, Keyword Searching and the Logical (B00lean) Operators AND, OR, NOT, Phrase Search using quotation marks and natural language search explained, the Guide to the Student Workbooks and their answer keys, searching the World Almanac For Kids and how to use SIRS Discoverer for teaching truncation to search, and using SIRS as a writing tool. At-A-Glance for School Leaders includes Inquiry and Discovery Forms that cover understanding basic knowledge, Problem Solving, Analyzing Graphs and Charts, Map Skills. And More: The Information Literacy Training Materials is included under Educator's Resources, too, showing a Quick Start Guide, explaining with pictures.
A mighty load of information contained in this database!
2a.-- Country Facts-- Looking up Kuwait revealed the dateline from History 18th Century --2006. Economy, geography, weather, population, facts, flag and map of country are other features. I liked the graphic organizers available in 3 levels: easy, moderate and challenging which serve to record research results, and can be used as student study guides.
2b.--Maps of the World--Kuwait is listed twice: one in size small and one large map with more detail and easier to read. Dates of most maps of countries seemed to be 10 years old or older. Most research requirements state 5 years old or younger. To keep a database like this current must take thousands of man-hours!
2c.--Select one other area in Database Features led me on a journey to all areas: Pathfinders--Dinosaurs is a topic the Eureka School 8th grade science students do a unit on, coming into the libraries to find a book or books on their dinosaur. The SIRS Discoverer article, "Field Museum Cleans T. Rex Sue for Her Anniversary" King County Journal (Bellevue, WA) May 12, 2010 Lexile Score 1260 1K , reveals T. Rex Sue getting cleaned for her 10th anniversary celebration at Chicago's Field Museum. Sue was discovered in 1990 in South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. The Eureka Elementary Library has the book, A Dinosaur Named Sue: The Find of the Century by Fay Robinson with the Science Team of the Field Museum. Scholastic c1999 (Hello REader! Science Level 4) A wonderful story of Sue's discovery. Had a truck not gotten a flat tire, Sue and her dog would not have discovered T. Rex Sue! Activities-- This section contains so many activities: recipes, jokes, art projects, games, puzzles, and on and on, enough to keep kids occupied all summer long, winter weekends, and holidays! Biographies-- The instructions, "search the biographies by last name," could be made larger and bolder, but if a student types in first name, last name, the search results will reverse the name order so that the last name appears first, comma, first name and multiple results will be received.! Fool proof! :)Fiction--A section of delightful reading, and level rated, I learned some things: From "Plantains" by Morgan Perez, Jack and Jill Vol 72 No 2 Mar/Apr 2010, pp18-21. Plantains are part of the banana family, but must be cooked, and are usually fried. Recipe included. Article can be sent to one's e-mail. Photo Essays-- Pulling up Native Americans revealed a few sentences with photo. Possible use for grade 5 in their Native American studies. Pictures--Another resource for finding photos to use in reports. Educators' Resources--This feature is positively tops! Included here is the Educator's Guide Oneline, defining, explaining Subject Tree Searching, Subject Headings Searching, Keyword Searching and the Logical (B00lean) Operators AND, OR, NOT, Phrase Search using quotation marks and natural language search explained, the Guide to the Student Workbooks and their answer keys, searching the World Almanac For Kids and how to use SIRS Discoverer for teaching truncation to search, and using SIRS as a writing tool. At-A-Glance for School Leaders includes Inquiry and Discovery Forms that cover understanding basic knowledge, Problem Solving, Analyzing Graphs and Charts, Map Skills. And More: The Information Literacy Training Materials is included under Educator's Resources, too, showing a Quick Start Guide, explaining with pictures.
A mighty load of information contained in this database!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Lesson 1c--World Book Foreign Language Edition
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, the Spanish language version and L'Encyclopedie Decouverte, the French language version--both enclyclopedias will find use here, especially, the Spanish version, as Spanish is part of Eureka School's curriculum. I showed the Spanish teacher this encyclopedia 2 years ago. She was delighted then. Have to ask her if she is using the read aloud feature! It was fun to see the English edition definition of Tarantula translated into Spanish. All high school students and teachers in Eureka School have laptops, so all the electronic resources can and will be easily used.
Lesson 1b--World Book Public Library Edition
World Book Online for Kids (K-5)--Clicking on Plants and Animals, Animals, no warthogs are listed here, not even in the zoo. I looked up tarantula instead, found a picture and its habitat in Southern and Western United States, South America and Australia. I like the other features of this electronic resource, Science projects and biographies, and the easy way to move to the other World Book sites at the bottom of the page, a feature of all the sites.
World Book Online Info Finder (grades 5-9)--Searching for the same mammal as I did in World Book Kids, the warthog, this site pulled up the exact same information as World Book student with very little information. World Book Kids outshined both World Book Info Finder and World Book Student in the warthog category.
World Book Online Reference Center (grades 9-adult)--Online reference center pulled up the exact same information that World Book Advanced provided, plus is the same information that is provided in the print World Book 2003 volume on Kuwait. But, there are so many more features to this online reference center...could take days to explore! The types of information most valuable to students will depend upon the course and their assignment. English, speech, Senior term papers, government, health, geography classes all will greatly benefit using this resource!
World Book Online Info Finder (grades 5-9)--Searching for the same mammal as I did in World Book Kids, the warthog, this site pulled up the exact same information as World Book student with very little information. World Book Kids outshined both World Book Info Finder and World Book Student in the warthog category.
World Book Online Reference Center (grades 9-adult)--Online reference center pulled up the exact same information that World Book Advanced provided, plus is the same information that is provided in the print World Book 2003 volume on Kuwait. But, there are so many more features to this online reference center...could take days to explore! The types of information most valuable to students will depend upon the course and their assignment. English, speech, Senior term papers, government, health, geography classes all will greatly benefit using this resource!
Lesson 1a--World Book School Edition
World Book Kids (K-5)--This electronic resource is very easy to use. The picture/words step one right through to what you are looking for! I chose the mammal ,warthog because I read aloud to the kindergarteners the book, Friends of a Feather by Arlen Cohn which features a warthog who finds a beautiful feather and searches for its owner, encountering 14 different birds along the way. The book includes an index describing those 14 birds and also warthog. World Book Kids has an excellent picture, includes a video of the warthog eating, and features an audio read aloud text. I plan to collaborate with the computer K-3 teacher and have her use World Book Kids the same week I am reading the fiction book. Students can search all the birds!
World Book Student (grades 5-9)--When I typed in warthog, World Book Student pulled up The Lion King, listing Pumbaa, the warthog, plus 3 encyclopedia zoo articles back in time, 1995, 1997, 2000 each article listing only a sentence. Camparing with World Book Kids, Kids had more information.
World Book Advanced (grades 9-12)--I searched Kuwait and was not disappointed in the volume of information and choices offered. Kuwait the country and Kuwait the capital. Most impressive: 60 encyclo. articles, 7 primary sources, 1 E-book, 41 Presidential papers, 9 maps 4 historical, 17 tables, 5 pictures, 237 articles back in time 7 special reports, 4 websites! Comparing electronic with print 2003 volume on Kuwait, same as print but offers much, much more!
World Book Discover (grades 4-adult)--Find by Topic --History and Government-- was too broad, so I typed in American government and many more excellent choices were offered, plus I was refered to World Book Student.
World Book Student (grades 5-9)--When I typed in warthog, World Book Student pulled up The Lion King, listing Pumbaa, the warthog, plus 3 encyclopedia zoo articles back in time, 1995, 1997, 2000 each article listing only a sentence. Camparing with World Book Kids, Kids had more information.
World Book Advanced (grades 9-12)--I searched Kuwait and was not disappointed in the volume of information and choices offered. Kuwait the country and Kuwait the capital. Most impressive: 60 encyclo. articles, 7 primary sources, 1 E-book, 41 Presidential papers, 9 maps 4 historical, 17 tables, 5 pictures, 237 articles back in time 7 special reports, 4 websites! Comparing electronic with print 2003 volume on Kuwait, same as print but offers much, much more!
World Book Discover (grades 4-adult)--Find by Topic --History and Government-- was too broad, so I typed in American government and many more excellent choices were offered, plus I was refered to World Book Student.
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