My biggest discovery of this class has been the use of the Chilton Library, number one because my husband and I have just gotten into looking up videos for how to repair different things. I thought it was great to see all of the available parts, repair videos included with the Chilton Library. We plan to use it to fix the sliding door on our old van. We have the parts, but our service man is so busy that we have decided to use helpful videos and see if we can do it ourselves.
I also discovered by reading about my family's history on Heritage Quest that my family's name long ago and my father's namesake Ode Odens was not actually that, but rather, Ole Olens. It seems to me that the people who were recording his name when he immigrated did not understand his name quite clearly, so they wrote Ode instead of Ole, and Odens, instead of Olens. I can understand how it happened, accents were hard to understand. This information is helpful to me to be able to follow the genealogy farther back because I know about the name change now. I plan to do more reading on this site.
I also found some interesting information about a family in Pollock for whom I am presently typing a family history book.. They have been looking for some missing links also, and I think I may have found some pictures that they would like to see. The family history is also very interesting to me, and I think they will enjoy reading it too. I plan to show the author of the book how to use this library site. He has a SD library card, so I will show him how to use this site.
I will also make use of the World Cat site more commonly after spending time using it.
I enjoyed Ancestry.com and will use it the next time I am in a community library that has the connection for that site. It gives me some options of how to use the community library.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Lesson 9
I was able to go to a public library in another town today to do my assignment. I enjoyed using Ancestry.com. I found this information under immigration and travel, and then I chose ships and their pictures. I searched for the sister ship of the Titanic and found it!
| Olympic | |||||||||
| Years in service: | 1911-1934 | ||||||||
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| Funnels: | 4 | ||||||||
| Masts: | 2 | ||||||||
| Shipping line: | White Star | ||||||||
| Ship description: | Built by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. Tonnage: 45,324. Dimensions: 852' x 92' (882' o.l.). Triple-screw, 23 knots. Triple expansion engines and one low pressure steam turbine. Two masts and four funnels. | ||||||||
| History: | Laid down on December 16, 1908. Launched, October 20, 1910. Note: From keel to top of funnels 175 feet. Navigating bridge was 104 feet above keel. Displacement of 60,000 tons. Draft of 34 1/2 feet. The promenade deck had an extreme breadth of 94 feet. The bower anchors weighed 7 3/4 tons each. The centre anchor weighed 15 1/2 tons. Cost $7,500,000 to build. Passengers: 1,054 first, 510 second, 1,020 third. The crew numbered 860. Maiden voyage: Southampton-New York, June 14, 1911. Rammed and holed by the British cruiser Hawke, September 20, 1911, but was not seriously damaged. After the sinking of the Titanic, her construction was altered. The changes increased her tonnage to 46,439. Served as a troopship in World War I. Thoroughly reconditioned in 1921, including conversion to burning oil fuel. She rammed and sunk the well-known lightship Nantucket off the New England coast, May 16, 1934, during a thick fog. The seven members of the lightship crew were lost. The great liner was withdrawn from service in March 1935 and sold to British ship breakers later in the year. The scrapped hulk was finally dismantled in 1937. Sister ship:Titanic.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
lesson 8 World Cat
For the first part of the lesson I had to use World Cat to find a juvenile level non-fiction book about Martin Luther. I tried the typical route of just typing in his name, nothing was available, so I tried connecting "personal name" with Martin Luther, limiting phrase of geographical location Germany, limited to English. I went back and forth several times, followed the help suggestions, looked at the various ways to find a book about Martin Luther, and finally decided that there is one main book about the life of Martin Luther entitled Here I Stand by Roland H. Bainton. The book is written in German and in English. It is definitely a resource book for younger readers. I would say most of them would not read a 400 page book. The topics that worked to find this book were: name, biography, Germany. The library closest to the Mobridge, SD area that has this book is the Rapid City Public Library.
The next section was to look through the classic graphic novels and pick one to add to our local library as a suggestion. I would choose Tom Sawyer by Tim Mucci, Rad Sechrist, Mark Twain. I like the cover illustration because it fits the character of Tom Sawyer. The book is also written in Spanish if a library did need some classic graphic novels for Spanish speaking children. Tom Sawyer is a fictional character that both boys and girls like to read and imagine being his friend during his adventures. The pictures would make the story even more enjoyable.
The nearest library that has the book is the Laramie County System Library in Laramie, Wyoming.
There are 339 libraries in the world with this book. If a person wants the Spanish version, there are only 4 copies available worldwide.
The next assignment of this lesson was to find the vocal score for "My fair lady." I had to do some searching to find the right words to search to find what I wanted. The title had to be "My fair lady,"
the keyword had to be "vocal score." It wasn't helpful to add in the author's name because the search was too refined and the right item did not show. I tried musical composition, musical recording, several words, but I was finally able to get the right set of words to get what I wanted.
The newest one I found was printed in 1969, entitled "My fair lady" by Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerne, Bernard Shaw, with the printing of 1969 and 1956. This one has the vocal score with piano. The accession number is 26429906.
I found another "My fair lady" printed in 1956 with vocal score excerpts. The accession number for that one is 22601829.
The one I like best has the same title, but it is for voice and piano and has chord symbols, and ukulele chord diagrams. It was printed in 1956 in New York by Chappelle and Company. The accession number for this one is 2052359.
I do not have a school in the town where I live and the library we have is a small community library.
I am not able to get the CAMIO program to work for me. I have tried the advanced search and different ways to search, but I get no page to come or it says "page not available."
I decided to look for this information under "World Cat" to see what I could find. I found by typing in "dress" and the years 1837-1901, several books with the clothing worn during those years in England. One book was the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume and Fashion from 1066 to the present by Jack Cassin Scott, printed by Studio Vista in London, 1994. This book shows the styles of clothing worn by during the time period of the Norman Conquest of Britain.
The other book I found that looked very helpful was the Historical Encyclopedia of Costume by A. Racinet. It is a 6 volume set, printed in New York, 1988, and this set includes 19th Century Europe, 1876-1888.
The next section was to look through the classic graphic novels and pick one to add to our local library as a suggestion. I would choose Tom Sawyer by Tim Mucci, Rad Sechrist, Mark Twain. I like the cover illustration because it fits the character of Tom Sawyer. The book is also written in Spanish if a library did need some classic graphic novels for Spanish speaking children. Tom Sawyer is a fictional character that both boys and girls like to read and imagine being his friend during his adventures. The pictures would make the story even more enjoyable.
The nearest library that has the book is the Laramie County System Library in Laramie, Wyoming.
There are 339 libraries in the world with this book. If a person wants the Spanish version, there are only 4 copies available worldwide.
The next assignment of this lesson was to find the vocal score for "My fair lady." I had to do some searching to find the right words to search to find what I wanted. The title had to be "My fair lady,"
the keyword had to be "vocal score." It wasn't helpful to add in the author's name because the search was too refined and the right item did not show. I tried musical composition, musical recording, several words, but I was finally able to get the right set of words to get what I wanted.
The newest one I found was printed in 1969, entitled "My fair lady" by Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerne, Bernard Shaw, with the printing of 1969 and 1956. This one has the vocal score with piano. The accession number is 26429906.
I found another "My fair lady" printed in 1956 with vocal score excerpts. The accession number for that one is 22601829.
The one I like best has the same title, but it is for voice and piano and has chord symbols, and ukulele chord diagrams. It was printed in 1956 in New York by Chappelle and Company. The accession number for this one is 2052359.
I do not have a school in the town where I live and the library we have is a small community library.
I am not able to get the CAMIO program to work for me. I have tried the advanced search and different ways to search, but I get no page to come or it says "page not available."
I decided to look for this information under "World Cat" to see what I could find. I found by typing in "dress" and the years 1837-1901, several books with the clothing worn during those years in England. One book was the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume and Fashion from 1066 to the present by Jack Cassin Scott, printed by Studio Vista in London, 1994. This book shows the styles of clothing worn by during the time period of the Norman Conquest of Britain.
The other book I found that looked very helpful was the Historical Encyclopedia of Costume by A. Racinet. It is a 6 volume set, printed in New York, 1988, and this set includes 19th Century Europe, 1876-1888.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Lesson 7 ebooks on Ebscohost
I decided to take the subject of "South Dakota" for my search on Ebscohost. I typed in "South Dakota," then clicked "advanced search." I found 12 books. I decided to look at the relevant pagaes and the table of contents pages instead of downloading the whole book. I read through the relevant pages of these books: Nothing but Prairie and Sky: Life on the Dakota Range in the Early Days by Bruce Sibert and Wyman Walker Demarquis;The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Oscar Micheaux, 1994; and Bachelor Bess, Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919. I read several of the relevant pages in each book plus additional pages since I could just read on if I wished from the section I had taken. I found that to be similar to what I would do if I had the book in my hands in a library.
Next, I chose to try to find some books on country schools in South Dakota. I tried to find a book on the first school in Bon Homme County, but I was not successful. I then used "smart text" and found the book America's Country Schools by Andrew Gulliford, 1996. I was able to read about country schools in South Dakota in that book.
The next search I did used "smart text" again because no books came up just using the "advanced search." I searched South Dakota and Missouri River. One book was shown: Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows by Edwin Thompson Denig, 1961. I definitely like the search option of relevant pages and the table of contents so a person can scan to see if the book has the information that the reader wants.
The second part of the lesson was to look for fairy tales that used colored paper for covers. I found them by typing in "fairy tales" in the search, then scrolling down to "fairy tales and children."
The books that were listed were the Violet book and the Yellow book. The stories were written by Andrew Lang. I read the preface of the Yellow book and found that they wrote about the Blue, the Green, and the Yellow book. I found it interesting to read that the president of the Folk Lore Society did not like the fact that the books were published in red, green, and blue, but the Editor and Mr. Jacobs who did the publishing decided that there was no harm in doing so and printed more books as well. They started a new idea! Now we have all sorts of colors in our books!
Next, I chose to try to find some books on country schools in South Dakota. I tried to find a book on the first school in Bon Homme County, but I was not successful. I then used "smart text" and found the book America's Country Schools by Andrew Gulliford, 1996. I was able to read about country schools in South Dakota in that book.
The next search I did used "smart text" again because no books came up just using the "advanced search." I searched South Dakota and Missouri River. One book was shown: Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows by Edwin Thompson Denig, 1961. I definitely like the search option of relevant pages and the table of contents so a person can scan to see if the book has the information that the reader wants.
The second part of the lesson was to look for fairy tales that used colored paper for covers. I found them by typing in "fairy tales" in the search, then scrolling down to "fairy tales and children."
The books that were listed were the Violet book and the Yellow book. The stories were written by Andrew Lang. I read the preface of the Yellow book and found that they wrote about the Blue, the Green, and the Yellow book. I found it interesting to read that the president of the Folk Lore Society did not like the fact that the books were published in red, green, and blue, but the Editor and Mr. Jacobs who did the publishing decided that there was no harm in doing so and printed more books as well. They started a new idea! Now we have all sorts of colors in our books!
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Lesson 6 Use of the Gale Virtual Reference Library
A. Spring festivals from around the world:
The first article I read was the "Mimouna Festival." This article was found in the Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East and North Africa. The festival is a Jewish festival which begins the evening Passover ends. The ladies set tables adorned with green stalks, dried fruits and nuts, fava beans, wheat, honey, sweets, milk, fish, and crepes. The families go visiting each other, some go on a picnic.
I found this information by searching "spring celebrations" in the top search section. Next, I used the left side to search in a specific book.
B. The next article I found was labeled "China." It was found in the Junior World Mark Encyclopedia of Holidays. The Ching or Qing Ming Spring Festival is held on April 5 or 6. It means "pure and bright, or clear and bright." They have feasts, fairs, parades, hunts, play games, fly kites, and plant trees. They wear a willow sprig to attract good spirits and drive away sickness. They have a "Cold Food" day to remember a leader who suffocated in a cave because he did not understand why the top leader wanted him to come out, so he wouldn't come out. The top leader wanted him to come out so badly, he started a fire to smoke him out, and the person died in the cave.
C. Another part of the assignment was to find recipes that are used for the celebrations.
I found recipes in the Algeria Foods and Recipes Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia. I also read about 2 local festivals in Algeria every spring. One is the "Cherry Mousse" in Tlemcen, and the "Tomato Mousseam" in Adrar.
I also found that the Western Region of the United States has a practice of some spring festivals. Recipes were also found in site under the Foods and Recipes.
The last part of the assignment was to find articles listed in 2012. The "Algeria Foods and Recipes" in the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia was one listed in 2012. The other most common articles that had information about spring festivals or celebrations were colleges. Several of these colleges listed a "spring fling" as one of their college activities to entertain the college students.
The first article I read was the "Mimouna Festival." This article was found in the Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East and North Africa. The festival is a Jewish festival which begins the evening Passover ends. The ladies set tables adorned with green stalks, dried fruits and nuts, fava beans, wheat, honey, sweets, milk, fish, and crepes. The families go visiting each other, some go on a picnic.
I found this information by searching "spring celebrations" in the top search section. Next, I used the left side to search in a specific book.
B. The next article I found was labeled "China." It was found in the Junior World Mark Encyclopedia of Holidays. The Ching or Qing Ming Spring Festival is held on April 5 or 6. It means "pure and bright, or clear and bright." They have feasts, fairs, parades, hunts, play games, fly kites, and plant trees. They wear a willow sprig to attract good spirits and drive away sickness. They have a "Cold Food" day to remember a leader who suffocated in a cave because he did not understand why the top leader wanted him to come out, so he wouldn't come out. The top leader wanted him to come out so badly, he started a fire to smoke him out, and the person died in the cave.
C. Another part of the assignment was to find recipes that are used for the celebrations.
I found recipes in the Algeria Foods and Recipes Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia. I also read about 2 local festivals in Algeria every spring. One is the "Cherry Mousse" in Tlemcen, and the "Tomato Mousseam" in Adrar.
I also found that the Western Region of the United States has a practice of some spring festivals. Recipes were also found in site under the Foods and Recipes.
The last part of the assignment was to find articles listed in 2012. The "Algeria Foods and Recipes" in the Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia was one listed in 2012. The other most common articles that had information about spring festivals or celebrations were colleges. Several of these colleges listed a "spring fling" as one of their college activities to entertain the college students.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Lesson 5
The first assignment was to look for literary criticism on the novel Les Miserable. I followed the instruction to click on full text, then document type, then subject limiters. I looked to the right sidebar to get the literary criticism about the novel. There were 334 results. There were 314 Scholarly Journal articles, 13 magazine articles, and 7 trade journals.
I looked for information on the ways libraries aided their communities during and after Hurricane Sandy. The first article I found was by Gordon Flagg on American Libraries. The article was from August 2006. The libraries were commended for their tireless efforts in helping people with gathering information and providing internet services and other library services when other community businesses were shut down.
Next I limited my search and went to the Pro Quest in Science and Technology. I found three articles that told about the work the libraries in the Hurricane Sandy areas had done during the time of disaster. The most recent article I found was in Young Library Services, "Learn to Code, It's a Life Skill," written by Jessica Klein, Winter 2014: 25-27.
I looked for information on the ways libraries aided their communities during and after Hurricane Sandy. The first article I found was by Gordon Flagg on American Libraries. The article was from August 2006. The libraries were commended for their tireless efforts in helping people with gathering information and providing internet services and other library services when other community businesses were shut down.
Next I limited my search and went to the Pro Quest in Science and Technology. I found three articles that told about the work the libraries in the Hurricane Sandy areas had done during the time of disaster. The most recent article I found was in Young Library Services, "Learn to Code, It's a Life Skill," written by Jessica Klein, Winter 2014: 25-27.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Lesson 4
Lesson 4, first section
The object of the lesson is to help a third grader with a report about the solar system. The student needs a lower lexile for independent reading.
I used the SIRS data base and typed "solar system" in the "advanced search." I set the lexile level for 400-500 and easy reading. I found several articles.
The first article is entitled, "How Many Moons?" from the April 3, 2006 Scholastic News, Vol. 62, pp. 4+.
The second article is entitled, "Mars Is More than Just a Candy Bar" from the Boys Quest, Aug. Sept. 1996, pp. 20-21.
The third article is entitled, "Super Science," by Geoff Alan from the U.S. Kids magazine, June 1999, pp. 16-17.T
The fourth article is entitled, "Saturn's Rings Around the Planet" from the Club 2! magazine, Sept. Oct. 1997, pp. 20-21.
All of these articles are informational, and do not have difficult sentence structure or vocabulary words.
I checked the encyclopedia to see if I could find some pictures of the solar system for the student and found that by clicking on the search under encyclopedia and "solar system," that I could find pictures that the student could use for the report as well. The article was found in Compton's by Brittanica, August 1, 2011.
Part 2 of Lesson 4
I had to find two ways to use SIRS Discoverer to find maps/images of volcanoes and list the number of results.
First of all, I typed in "volcano images" in the "keyword" search. For all searches, 126 articles were listed. Nineteen graphics were included in this listing which were very interesting.
I found 2 "web find" sites under volcano images. One was a 3-d tour of the Solar System which gave information and pictures of volcanoes on different planets. The other web find was "Mars Quest online."
Under "websites," I found 2 articles specifically written about volcanoes under "science."
I found 12 articles under "Exploring Nature.org" that gave information and graphics about volcanoes.
Part 3 of Lesson 4
This section involves the use of SIRS Researcher and a topic. The topic is "suicide prevention."
The first thing I noticed about SIRS Researcher is that they have the latest topics under a long listing of various topics. I looked up "suicide prevention" and found many articles. Part of the lesson was to compare this data base to Google search on the same topic. The SIRS Researcher is much better because the listing includes information from newspapers, magazines, and internet sources. The information is much easier to access on the SIRS Researcher. Another great addition to this SIRS Researcher site is that tools are provided for the student to organize notes and a list of other research tools to help the student organize the information they are reading.
The second part of this section on SIRS Researcher is to find information on "water use" to prepare for a town meeting discussing the necessity of water restrictions and why. The Pro Con issues would be very helpful to read through and collect important information for the meeting.
One of the articles that would be helpful to read as background is the article about ways that different states are recycling water. Perhaps this group of people could also be encouraged to think of ways that they could recycle water in their town so less fresh water would be needed.
It seems to me that during a time of drought citizens must be more conscientious about reusing the water that they have so they don't run out of drinking water.
The object of the lesson is to help a third grader with a report about the solar system. The student needs a lower lexile for independent reading.
I used the SIRS data base and typed "solar system" in the "advanced search." I set the lexile level for 400-500 and easy reading. I found several articles.
The first article is entitled, "How Many Moons?" from the April 3, 2006 Scholastic News, Vol. 62, pp. 4+.
The second article is entitled, "Mars Is More than Just a Candy Bar" from the Boys Quest, Aug. Sept. 1996, pp. 20-21.
The third article is entitled, "Super Science," by Geoff Alan from the U.S. Kids magazine, June 1999, pp. 16-17.T
The fourth article is entitled, "Saturn's Rings Around the Planet" from the Club 2! magazine, Sept. Oct. 1997, pp. 20-21.
All of these articles are informational, and do not have difficult sentence structure or vocabulary words.
I checked the encyclopedia to see if I could find some pictures of the solar system for the student and found that by clicking on the search under encyclopedia and "solar system," that I could find pictures that the student could use for the report as well. The article was found in Compton's by Brittanica, August 1, 2011.
Part 2 of Lesson 4
I had to find two ways to use SIRS Discoverer to find maps/images of volcanoes and list the number of results.
First of all, I typed in "volcano images" in the "keyword" search. For all searches, 126 articles were listed. Nineteen graphics were included in this listing which were very interesting.
I found 2 "web find" sites under volcano images. One was a 3-d tour of the Solar System which gave information and pictures of volcanoes on different planets. The other web find was "Mars Quest online."
Under "websites," I found 2 articles specifically written about volcanoes under "science."
I found 12 articles under "Exploring Nature.org" that gave information and graphics about volcanoes.
Part 3 of Lesson 4
This section involves the use of SIRS Researcher and a topic. The topic is "suicide prevention."
The first thing I noticed about SIRS Researcher is that they have the latest topics under a long listing of various topics. I looked up "suicide prevention" and found many articles. Part of the lesson was to compare this data base to Google search on the same topic. The SIRS Researcher is much better because the listing includes information from newspapers, magazines, and internet sources. The information is much easier to access on the SIRS Researcher. Another great addition to this SIRS Researcher site is that tools are provided for the student to organize notes and a list of other research tools to help the student organize the information they are reading.
The second part of this section on SIRS Researcher is to find information on "water use" to prepare for a town meeting discussing the necessity of water restrictions and why. The Pro Con issues would be very helpful to read through and collect important information for the meeting.
One of the articles that would be helpful to read as background is the article about ways that different states are recycling water. Perhaps this group of people could also be encouraged to think of ways that they could recycle water in their town so less fresh water would be needed.
It seems to me that during a time of drought citizens must be more conscientious about reusing the water that they have so they don't run out of drinking water.
Water Can Be Reclaimed, Reused Instead of Wasted is a very good article to have available for people in drought areas to read and think about.
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