Welcome back to school!

August 2011

Prior Knowledge

• During the school year you will be looking for great resources for yourself and for your students.

• Don’t forget those resources that you may reach at home or at school by just using your computer.

• OLGS subscribes to a few resources for which you need a username and password.

• And there are free online resources for which you just need to register.

Something in the back of your mind: 21st Century Learning Skills

One is Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Address:http://school.eb.com

Username: olgsPassword: 21120

Let’s search: gnp

Another is Enchantedlearning.com

http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Username: olgsPassword: 21120

Let’s search: South Sudan

Sirs Discoverer provides a database for magazine and newspaper articles

Address is:http://ars.sirs.com/discoverer.html

Username: MD85179Password: 21120

Let’s select a topic at random and view results and tabs; see reference selections; see teacher resources

And Culturegrams provides great Geography resources

Address:http://culturegrams.com

Username: ologsPassword: ologs

Let’s look at Canada and provinces; do a distance measurement between Victoria British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec; and investigate other cool features.

Two other resources are available using your own unique username

and password:

Two other resources are available using your own

unique username and password:

Address: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com

Username:Password:

Let’s search for a videoabout Christopher Columbus;see quiz at end of video; see citation information; seeother teacher resources.Let’s review other nice teacher resources beyond video.

And Accelerated Reader

Address is only available at school because this program is on our school serverAddress is: http://server01.ourladygrace.org/RenaissanceServer/Username:Password:

Take a test? More informationat another time.

Finally remember the library webpages for more information:

http://olgslmc.wikispaces.com

Add other favorites:

Thinkporthttp://www.thinkport.org/

Recall that there are virtual field trips and great professional development

resources.

Edutopiahttp://www.edutopia.org/

Sign up and view resources for teachers and more.

Partial BibliographyAll about South Sudan. South Sudan – Enchanted Learning. C2011. http://enchantedlearning.com/africa/southsudan/ (webpage from South Sudan search)

Canada. Proquest LLC and Brigham Young University, c2011. http://online.culturegrams.com/provinces/index.php (webpage )

Framework for 21st Century Learning. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 2009. http://www.p21.org/documents/P21_Framework.pdf(webpage)

"gross national product." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2011. Web. 10 Aug. 2011.<http://school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-9274674>. (middle school article from gnp search)

Gross national product. Video. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 10 Aug. 2011. <http://school.eb.com/eb/art-95887>. (video from gnp search)

Holiday Facts and Fun: Columbus Day.Colman Communications, 2004. Full Video.10 August 2011. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>. (Video from Columbus day search)

Think Family & Community: Online Field Trips. © Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education 2003-2011 http://www.thinkport.org/FamilyCommunity/oftrips.tp (webpage)

If you can’t remember a wonderful resource you’d like to use:

Ask a student. He or she just might remember something

from Library class!