Lesson 4b Additional Education Databases

Discovery Exercises:

1)  I did a search for Technology Education and Alaska in the Teacher Reference Center and returned 46 results.  When limited to full text and published after 2008 I only returned 7.

APA

(American Psychological Assoc.)

References

Skelton, S. (2004). Thriving in Rural Alaska. English Journal, 93(6), 76-81.

2)  Searching ERIC returned 297 results and when limited it returned only 10.  The title that I found without a PDF or HTML was  STEM: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics. State-level Analysis-you can only view full text online.

3)  Searching Professional Development returned 57 results and when limited returned 9 and yes many of the titles were familiar and they did overlap. 

4)  When searching all the databases together I returned 384 results and when limited there was a total of 18.  The value of searching just one database will narrow your results down depending on which direction you are leaning.  If you want more from the professional development standpoint then it makes more sense to use the Professional Development website to narrow your search in that direction.

Lesson 4a

The Time that this is available to me is not a good time for me to be working on this class so I will have to get back to lesson 4a so on to 4b.

Lesson 3 NoveList

We found out that while we were trying to access the NoveList site, the Ebsco site was actually down. It really wasn't operator error, although some of it may have been :o).  NoveList is something that I started using a long time ago as a library assistant to help student to find other books in a series or even just to help me to find other books that might fit on our library shelves so I am quite familiar with these databases.

Discovery Exercises:

1)  I think these searches are fairly accurate. They give you an idea of what or where to look next for your next exciting read.  I also think that the series recommendations are very useful when a student comes in and wants the next book in the series and you need the title to look it up.  Telling us that they want "book 2" doesn't really tell us anything :o).

2)  My folder is now full of books for me to read over the summer :o).

3)  Once again here is where the series order comes in handy for our students when they are reading the series and need the next book.

4)   I think that the author Read-Alikes are the most useful for our patrons and also the Book Discussion Guides are helpful to our teachers who are doing read alouds in the classroom.

I read the article 7 Book Recommendation Websites and there are only a couple that I can recommend because I hadn't heard of most of them.  Of course I would recommend Which Book Should I Read Next.  This is a website that I frequently used in the past with students when they were stumped on what book to check out next after they had finished an amazing series or even just an awesome read.  I would also recommend the website Library Thing for someone who may want to organize a list of books that they have read or maybe even a list of what they may want to read.  It is also an amazing site for someone who may be very social and would like to talk to others online about the books that they have read and maybe can't get out to join bookclubs.

All in all this lesson was somewhat familiar territory for me and was nice to learn of some of the other databases and websites out there that we can show our patrons to look for new books and resources to read and use.