1. Topic of interest - Leadership Skills
Findings and observations: I thought there were some interesting and useful books on this topic. One such title was The Rookie Manager: a guide to surviving your first year in management -(hit relevant pgs.) certain co-workers at the same level serve as a model for your own leadership.
In another title Words from Great Business Leaders - advice from Madame C.J. Walker, Getty and someone at Southwest Airlines. The advice from Southwest was good - leadership said "value time one spends with your people more than anything else you do."
Then I changed the search terms to leadership development. Several of the same titles appeared using these terms. I thought both searches produced good information on leadership skill/development.
2. Constitution Day:
I had trouble here. I'm not sure if I got out of the ebook section or if there just wasn't much using the term Constitution Day. To get something I went to Student Research Center and got a Time for Kids article. It was okay and the article addressed Constitution Day.
I opted out of the system and went back into Ebooks on Ebsco and got a couple more titles that would be helpful to students looking for information. This search produced more relevant information. Titles included Proclamation 8862 - Constitution Day and Citizen Day, Celebrating constitution Day by Cathy Carpenter, Constitution Day by Bradford Wilson and finally We the People: Constitution & Citizenship Day. It helps when you're in the right area!
3. Western History:
Oklahoma - I felt there were many books to chose from for a report. Some titles held unique stories or information that could set a report apart from the group. Here is a short list with an asterisk by titles with more "interesting information."
Guide to Oklahoma
*Oklahoma Treasures /Treasure Tales
*Oklahoma Name Places
**Two Stories of Oklahoma by Hamlin Garland - I chose this because I read some of his stuff in college, back in the day.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Basic Discovery Exercise - Lesson 6
Gale Virtual Reference Library
1. Article by Table of Contents:
The College Blue Book - South Dakota
This listed the colleges in South Dakota, a description of the school - state supported, coed, when founded etc. and entrance requirements. This would be a great benefit for parents and students doing a compare and contrast for in-state schools. One would walk away knowing the physical and population size of the school and community, and student to faculty ratio. Good information for any one interested in going to or returning to school.
2. I used your examples zinc and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
zinc - I typed foods containing zinc in the search box - no results. After a few minutes fumbling through different zinc/food combinations I just typed zinc. Several (20 or so titles) came up. Nothing really about food, but several interesting books - one on ADHD pertaining to zinc and another pertaining more to the topic - Mineral Deficiency. Still, I did not find a list specific foods containing zinc.
I enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn search much more. The student could chose specific literary themes to discuss in his/her project such as race and prejudice. Themes of the American Dream, the rise of censorship and a more obvious one, slavery. This would be a great help to students doing a project. It would help to focus the project on one or two important issues or discussions.
1. Article by Table of Contents:
The College Blue Book - South Dakota
This listed the colleges in South Dakota, a description of the school - state supported, coed, when founded etc. and entrance requirements. This would be a great benefit for parents and students doing a compare and contrast for in-state schools. One would walk away knowing the physical and population size of the school and community, and student to faculty ratio. Good information for any one interested in going to or returning to school.
2. I used your examples zinc and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
zinc - I typed foods containing zinc in the search box - no results. After a few minutes fumbling through different zinc/food combinations I just typed zinc. Several (20 or so titles) came up. Nothing really about food, but several interesting books - one on ADHD pertaining to zinc and another pertaining more to the topic - Mineral Deficiency. Still, I did not find a list specific foods containing zinc.
I enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn search much more. The student could chose specific literary themes to discuss in his/her project such as race and prejudice. Themes of the American Dream, the rise of censorship and a more obvious one, slavery. This would be a great help to students doing a project. It would help to focus the project on one or two important issues or discussions.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Lesson 5 -- Proquest
1. I did a basic search on German Shepherd dogs. There were tons of articles many dealing with physical or health related problems of this particular bred, from complex segregation analysis of hip dysplasia to the type of coat that a German shepherd should have. There were articles on herding since a "shepherd" is a herding dog. I was surprised by the amount of information.
1a. I read a blog about maritime shipping. It appeared the blogger enjoyed that subject - he said he used a voice activated blog. I assume that means he just talks and what he says is written or blogged. I'd not heard of that until now.
2. Publications:
I chose library as my keyword. First I tried "in title" which did not produce much then I used "in subject" and up popped 96 publications. On the right side of the screen were a list of source types, such as scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, books and other. The "other" happened to be a BLOG which I looked at briefly. It was the "Distant Librarian". This blog brought up Library and Information Sciences which was more information than I wanted.
Not much for observations on this challenge - I'm starting to feel crunch time since lesson 6 came out Sunday and it's already Tuesday.
1a. I read a blog about maritime shipping. It appeared the blogger enjoyed that subject - he said he used a voice activated blog. I assume that means he just talks and what he says is written or blogged. I'd not heard of that until now.
2. Publications:
I chose library as my keyword. First I tried "in title" which did not produce much then I used "in subject" and up popped 96 publications. On the right side of the screen were a list of source types, such as scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, books and other. The "other" happened to be a BLOG which I looked at briefly. It was the "Distant Librarian". This blog brought up Library and Information Sciences which was more information than I wanted.
Not much for observations on this challenge - I'm starting to feel crunch time since lesson 6 came out Sunday and it's already Tuesday.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Lesson 4 - SIRS Reacher/Discoverer
1. Armadillos - discuss results.
There were not a lot of current (2013) articles. Of course armadillo information probably does not change much over time. The article I chose was Awesome Armadillos (2003). It had pictures and all reading levels.
2. "Database Features" I selected Sweden. It gave the official name , population, government type, agriculture, climate, and currency etc... Major historical event - Did you know? Sweden has not been involved in any wars for nearly 200 years!
"Maps of the World" - Chose Germany - gave administrative borders, major roadways, rail etc.
The Ties of Trade map would be great for a history class - could display old ships w/ map routes.
Database Features:
I chose Science Fair - Junk Drawer - This will be great for the Summer Reading Program!We will be using it.
Focus on physics - case of the water walker
REASEARCHER:
1. Binge Drinking - pros/cons section -Should college campus implement campus wide restrictions of alcohol to prevent binge drinking.
-global impact
terms to know
2. Pathfinders favorite topic: Language Arts
gave research ideas
how to analyze poetry
Literary criticism and interpretation
Left side listed
Favorite courses
Literature and Journalism
History and Languages
Writing and Reading help
Over all this section would be helpful to many teachers - I hope they are taking advantage of it!
There were not a lot of current (2013) articles. Of course armadillo information probably does not change much over time. The article I chose was Awesome Armadillos (2003). It had pictures and all reading levels.
2. "Database Features" I selected Sweden. It gave the official name , population, government type, agriculture, climate, and currency etc... Major historical event - Did you know? Sweden has not been involved in any wars for nearly 200 years!
"Maps of the World" - Chose Germany - gave administrative borders, major roadways, rail etc.
The Ties of Trade map would be great for a history class - could display old ships w/ map routes.
Database Features:
I chose Science Fair - Junk Drawer - This will be great for the Summer Reading Program!We will be using it.
Focus on physics - case of the water walker
REASEARCHER:
1. Binge Drinking - pros/cons section -Should college campus implement campus wide restrictions of alcohol to prevent binge drinking.
-global impact
terms to know
2. Pathfinders favorite topic: Language Arts
gave research ideas
how to analyze poetry
Literary criticism and interpretation
Left side listed
Favorite courses
Literature and Journalism
History and Languages
Writing and Reading help
Over all this section would be helpful to many teachers - I hope they are taking advantage of it!
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