Ever since I watched the moon landing when I was very small (yeah, I'm *that* old), I've had a special interest in NASA, astronauts, space, and the universe. I love seeing photos, movies, video, and stories about all of the above. Now NASA has created a home page just for families to explore their vast …
Category: Research
Library Dept. Pages Update
If you're a teacher, librarian, student or parent in my district, you may be interested in checking out our newly updated library department web pages. I/we will be adding more content over time, but for now, the basics and some interesting other resources have been updated and added---student resources, parent resources, teacher and librarian resources. …
Awesome Home Activities
I know many people may feel overwhelmed by the amount of things available to them online. One of the reasons I created the blog was you could choose categories you were interested in (by clicking on them on the left side bar) and not have to weed through things you weren't interested in. I just …
Research Help!
Are you working on a research paper or project? Is your teacher asking you to find information on a topic? Do you need help coming up with a topic? Evaluating information to see if it's quality? Citing your work? Proquest (a large database company) is making their Research Companion resources freely available for students until …
Public Library Cards!
Hi everyone, The Buffalo and Erie County Library (BECPL) now has opened up the option of getting a library card online---since the locations are closed, you can still access online ebooks, audio books and music, but you need to have a card. This page has the form to fill out to get your online resource …
Information Literacy Videos
Something I'm now working on, and will continue to work on, during this pandemic, is creating information literacy videos. Basically, I'll be working on research topics. Today I made my first one, by taking a PPT slideshow, making it into a video, then uploading into Moviemaker, narrating it on my cell phone to match the …
Databases and World Book Online
We have access to thousands of articles via our GALE database and World Book Online subscriptions through the district. I've sent out an email to teachers, with log in information for our subscription databases and subscription online encyclopedia. I can't publish the log in information publicly but you can ask your teachers for the information. …
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