Friday, May 25, 2012

I found this site Smithsonianeducators.org/educators it has great lesson plans that follow the core standards for teaching science, art, history etc.

Another site I found very helpful for medical students is EasyAuscultaion.com.  It lets you listen to heart and lung sounds so that the student really gets to hear what the sound sounds like instead of just reading about how it should sound.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

What a great experience.  Everything was so very interesting and useful.  I think it would be very good to give the learningexpress handout to high schoolers that are getting ready for the ACTS and the SATS.  A puzzle map should be on display by all library computers so people can see the different search areas.  I have been looking at the  Webinar trainings and think that they would probably go a little more in depth on that subject.  Hope to get to try some as soon as school is out for the summer.  I think one of the neatest tool I discovered on this journey were the games on world book.  They are so perfect for the age kids I work with.  I hope to be able to promote the library more by talking with people and helping them find things so they can see what kind of materials are out there to help them.
Looked for a picture of Titantic's sister ship on AncestryLibrary and found a picture of the Britannic and very little information.  Had a hard time finding the ship until I found out what the name of it was, then had a little more luck.

For the student looking for information on the Hindenburg dirigible I found quite a few articles in the Stars and Strips Newspaper.  Would take a lot of reading on his part but there were lots of articles to choose from.

HertiageQuest was not very successful on giving information on Bison.  Did find information about cemeteries in Perkins  County.  Found some Genealogical Society publications about the Black Hills and South Dakota in general that would be interesting.  Found one book, History of  Dakota Territory, that would be a good read for historical events in South Dakota.

Definitely need some tips on doing searches in these resources.  Did not feel very successful this time.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Well I redid the Martin Luther search and changed the AND to NOT and found the correct Martin Luther.  He was a key player in the Protestant Reform.  I picked the book Martin Luther which is located at the Alexandria Mitchell Library.  I did not realize you could change the AND that is a very useful tip.