www.learnalberta.com
Students, teachers, and parents can use the site to find multimedia learning resources that are correlated to the Alberta programs of study.
Ask your librarian if you need the username/password
www.time.com
Search the Entire Site for Articles written from any Date
www.nationalgeographic.com
www.canadiangeographic.ca/
www.bartleby.com
Online Reference for many encyclopaedias.
Search and click “All Reference”
www.encyclopedia.com
get credible answers from published reference sources like Oxford University Press, Britannica, and Columbia Encyclopedia.
Instead of purchasing a hard book copy of these encyclopaedias, the library has purchased it to view online.
To check it out just put infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/gmhs13579 into your address bar and search as you normally would into like Google.
(You have to get the password from the librarian)
And how about something Super Fun and really easy to use instead of going to the computers?!?!?
Go to your App store and download “AccessMySchoolLibrary – School Edition”
Make sure that it is the Green One, Not the blue one.
Choose your School and enter the same password that you got from the librarian, and you can access all the same information from your device as long as you are connected to the internet!
There is a quick link to the school’s website, a contact button to e-mail the librarian directly as well as the button to search the databases.
If you switch schools. You can just reset your settings and re-connect to your new school if they have this feature too!
(More info here:http://www.gale.cengage.com/apps/aml/SchoolStudent/)
With either the App or using the Computers, you can Download an MP3 of the certain text you are looking at and it will read it out loud to you, it will automatically do the citations for your bibliography, it will translate it into many different languages, and of course, you can print or e-mail it.
If you want to download the Blue one that is just “AccessMyLibrary”, it will use your location to find a library nearby that subscribes to this same feature.
Check out http://www.gale.cengage.com/apps/aml/SchoolStudent/ for a video performing the functions as well as a link to the App in the Apple Store.
Try a Different Web Portal:
www.clusty.com
www.visualthesaurus.com
Referencing (bibliography)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
Automatic Citation
http://citationmachine.net
Start by clicking MLA or APA on the left-hand side and continue
Plagiarism
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
Website evaluation
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.htmlor
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Guide to Library Research
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/home.htm
Interactive Research
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/people/BartlettJon.html
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