1. I did a search on sewing since I am currently teaching two sewing classes. The first book that came up was The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sewing. The rest of the searches were not even related to sewing. Things about the internet and fort worth came up. The search results tell the books title, the author, the publisher, the publishing date, and what other topics it could be searched under. You can view the ebook full text, the table of contents or the most relevant pages from the Ebook. Clicking on the title gives you more detailed information about the book and the most relevant pages from the ebook. On the left hand side there is the option to view the book full text. It appears that the book in full text is a scanned in version of the book. The viewer gives options to go next, fit width to page, type in the page number you are looking for and zoom in or out on the information. On the left hand side of the viewer you can view the table of contents and click on parts you would like to see.
2.The recommendations I could make to the students needing more information on the constitution would be as follows:
Representing Popular Sovereignty : The Constitution in American Political Culture
Our Elusive Constitution : Silences, Paradoxes, Priorities
The Constitution, the Law, and Freedom of Expression
The Constitution of the United States of America
3. I typed in Oklahoma when doing the PB publisher advanced search. I found multiple titles about the old West and Native American culture. One book came up about ancient Egypt! There were 80 titles found. The top five titles sorted by relavance included:
Biodiversity and Native America
The Western Range Revisited : Removing Livestock From Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity
America's National Historic Trails
The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933
The Great Goddesses of Egypt
Monday, February 24, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Week 6 Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. I choose the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World,
2012, since I am a FACS teacher and that is one of our specialties. There are 4 volumes of this Encyclopedia, broken up alphabetically by country origin of the foods. There is a World's Food class in our department. If I would ever have to teach this class I would utilize this book ALL the time to teach about the countries and then have authentic recipes for students to try. This book excites me so much. I am going to be sharing it with the teacher that does teach it! The best part is the recipes are labeled with the original title and then converted to English and then all the recipes are in forms that the students use.
2. I search FSH because recently had a test done for levels with this in my own body and want to know more information on it. There are 79 search results. It was sorted by relavance which brought many articles about FSH and testing for it. I then searched by date published so I could have the most current information. It came up with a book published in 2013 with many articles related to FSH. There was a article on premature menopause relating to FSH saying that if a woman is going through that the FSH level would be very high, mine is very low so I must be safe from that! According to another article this test should be done on the third day of the period for the most accurate results. Very good information. Short and to the point articles. I really like this resource.
3. I will post on other blogs Friday so more people have time to complete this!
2. I search FSH because recently had a test done for levels with this in my own body and want to know more information on it. There are 79 search results. It was sorted by relavance which brought many articles about FSH and testing for it. I then searched by date published so I could have the most current information. It came up with a book published in 2013 with many articles related to FSH. There was a article on premature menopause relating to FSH saying that if a woman is going through that the FSH level would be very high, mine is very low so I must be safe from that! According to another article this test should be done on the third day of the period for the most accurate results. Very good information. Short and to the point articles. I really like this resource.
3. I will post on other blogs Friday so more people have time to complete this!
Monday, February 10, 2014
Lesson 5 ProQuest
1. I choose the topic Preschool for my ProQuest search since I am in the middle of picking a preschool for my youngest and planning to teach the Preschool Child Development class this spring. After I hit enter a bar under the search bar comes up with "related searches" which are more defined searches on the preschool topic such as: Preschool Education; Preschool education AND Early childhood education. Followed by this bar is how many results the search produced, the ability to search within the search results, create an alert and save the search. The next bar down then allows you to save, email, print, cite and export the documents selected. Below that you can choose if you want the brief view or detailed view. Each article entry is then listed with the title, a quick description of what the article is about, and clips of any images that go along with it. On the right hand side you can sort your search, it automatically comes up with relevance, but can be sorted by publication date, oldest first or newest first. There is also a long list of ways you can narrow your search depending on what you are looking for.
1.a. I visited many of the blogs. I found that they are extremely BORING and just regurgitating facts. I am not going to make it my goal to personalize and make this fun! I ended up comment on the Tatted Librarian because she was so detailed and personal with her posts! Loved it!
2. I did a search for Home and the first magazine that came up was Better Homes and Gardens, which I use a lot in my classes for articles and cut and paste things. It surprised me that the 7th result was Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences. Home wasn't in the title but it is in the content.
Each entry gives a summary including the magazine title the volumes that are covered in full text; coverage in any format; the Publisher; ISSN number; place of publication; and publication title history.
I think that it is neat to see what the magazines used to be titled :)
On the right hand side, there is a tool box that will help narrow searches for the publications down also.
1.a. I visited many of the blogs. I found that they are extremely BORING and just regurgitating facts. I am not going to make it my goal to personalize and make this fun! I ended up comment on the Tatted Librarian because she was so detailed and personal with her posts! Loved it!
2. I did a search for Home and the first magazine that came up was Better Homes and Gardens, which I use a lot in my classes for articles and cut and paste things. It surprised me that the 7th result was Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences. Home wasn't in the title but it is in the content.
Each entry gives a summary including the magazine title the volumes that are covered in full text; coverage in any format; the Publisher; ISSN number; place of publication; and publication title history.
I think that it is neat to see what the magazines used to be titled :)
On the right hand side, there is a tool box that will help narrow searches for the publications down also.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Lesson 4 -- SIRS Issues Researcher and Discoverer
SIRS Discoverer
1. I like when I started typing armadillos in the search bar of the SIRS discoverer that suggestions that fit the letters I was typing came up. I think this would be beneficial to younger students that might not know how to spell the whole word.
When the search results came up there are tabs at the top with all articles, newspaper, magazine, reference, graphics and webfinds. This would help students easily pick from the type of resource they wanted in the first place. The list is automatically sorted by relevance to the word search, but can be sorted by date of material and the lexile. The search results have a little picture of what source it is by it. The first four resources when searching armadillo are magazine sources. Behind each title there is a book with a color that shows the reading level, an apple representing subjects and a camera showing that there is a picture with the article. I really that that under each clickable title it has the source already properly cited so the students would just need to copy this for their bib pages.It also has a summary of the article and the descriptors that could be searched to find this article.
2. Country Facts has recently been updated per the little sign next to it before I click on it. Once clicked on the country facts brings up 3 different boxes: Country Facts, with a A-Z list of countries to click on; State facts with the option of regions of the United States or an A-Z list; and Canada facts, broke up into territories and provinces or an A-Z list. I clicked the A-Z list for the states and then clicked on OHIO. It brought up basic facts and the flag about Ohio, with more links to other information.
Maps of the world brings up 7 globe like icons for various map types. This could be used for studying states and countries. The historical ones could help with talking about history and understanding the land then better than using a today map to explain history. These maps would aide tremendously with a project of planning a trip across the country or to another country. These could be used if a new student comes from somewhere else than the town you are in or if you have foreign exchange students.
I clicked on the activities link on the right hand side. Up came a list of 22 categories of different types of activities ranging from art projects to health projects to social issue projects. I clicked on health projects (because I can teach health) and a list of resources with health related activities came up. Most relevant ones were reference materials then magazine articles.
SIRS Issues Researcher
1. I clicked on the leading issue ADHD (which is a new topic). At the left it gives a little summary of this issue with option of clicking more to continue reading on the topic. Below that are research tools that include topic overview, timeline, global impact, statistics, my analysis and note organizer. In the middle there is a pro/con section that gives a topic question "Are children being overmedicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?Are children being overmedicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?" which relates directly with ADHD and then there are boxes with lines for the pros and the cons. Once clicked on it brings up more information to support the side. On the far left there is also a video clip about medicating kids with ADHD.
2. I clicked on the Health tab in the curriculum pathfinder. This had so much stuff I could use in my classroom! On the left it has a my course section with categories and then subcategories with links to them. In the middle it has randomly placed research ideas with active links to information on each. On the far left it has videos clips that go with the health topics. This is great stuff! I will be showing the kids how to link to this the next time I have topics like these! I bet their papers will be packed with so much good information they won't have to worry about the page limitations any more!
1. I like when I started typing armadillos in the search bar of the SIRS discoverer that suggestions that fit the letters I was typing came up. I think this would be beneficial to younger students that might not know how to spell the whole word.
When the search results came up there are tabs at the top with all articles, newspaper, magazine, reference, graphics and webfinds. This would help students easily pick from the type of resource they wanted in the first place. The list is automatically sorted by relevance to the word search, but can be sorted by date of material and the lexile. The search results have a little picture of what source it is by it. The first four resources when searching armadillo are magazine sources. Behind each title there is a book with a color that shows the reading level, an apple representing subjects and a camera showing that there is a picture with the article. I really that that under each clickable title it has the source already properly cited so the students would just need to copy this for their bib pages.It also has a summary of the article and the descriptors that could be searched to find this article.
2. Country Facts has recently been updated per the little sign next to it before I click on it. Once clicked on the country facts brings up 3 different boxes: Country Facts, with a A-Z list of countries to click on; State facts with the option of regions of the United States or an A-Z list; and Canada facts, broke up into territories and provinces or an A-Z list. I clicked the A-Z list for the states and then clicked on OHIO. It brought up basic facts and the flag about Ohio, with more links to other information.
Maps of the world brings up 7 globe like icons for various map types. This could be used for studying states and countries. The historical ones could help with talking about history and understanding the land then better than using a today map to explain history. These maps would aide tremendously with a project of planning a trip across the country or to another country. These could be used if a new student comes from somewhere else than the town you are in or if you have foreign exchange students.
I clicked on the activities link on the right hand side. Up came a list of 22 categories of different types of activities ranging from art projects to health projects to social issue projects. I clicked on health projects (because I can teach health) and a list of resources with health related activities came up. Most relevant ones were reference materials then magazine articles.
SIRS Issues Researcher
1. I clicked on the leading issue ADHD (which is a new topic). At the left it gives a little summary of this issue with option of clicking more to continue reading on the topic. Below that are research tools that include topic overview, timeline, global impact, statistics, my analysis and note organizer. In the middle there is a pro/con section that gives a topic question "Are children being overmedicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?Are children being overmedicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?" which relates directly with ADHD and then there are boxes with lines for the pros and the cons. Once clicked on it brings up more information to support the side. On the far left there is also a video clip about medicating kids with ADHD.
2. I clicked on the Health tab in the curriculum pathfinder. This had so much stuff I could use in my classroom! On the left it has a my course section with categories and then subcategories with links to them. In the middle it has randomly placed research ideas with active links to information on each. On the far left it has videos clips that go with the health topics. This is great stuff! I will be showing the kids how to link to this the next time I have topics like these! I bet their papers will be packed with so much good information they won't have to worry about the page limitations any more!
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