Wrap Up

     Overall I learned something new about each site but the two
biggest discoveries concerned SIRS Issue Researcher and CAMIO.

     I dicovered I much preferred using SIRS over Proquest. It
was just easier to navigate and I was impressed with its features
espcially the Pro/Con Issues and Essentail Questions.

    I don't remember CAMIO from the first challenge so I was
really excited to explore all it had to offer and recommend it
to our Art teacher.

     Also discovered our IP address was not correct with the State
and consquently we had to put in the long username and then a
password. Managed to get that resovled with the prompt assistance
of Julie Erickson. This will make it so much easier to access these
sites from school. I have found both students and teachers want
everything quicker.

     Will definitly try to use these sites more when classes come in
for research. I feel much more comfortable using them and showing
teachers how to use them. Really liked the handouts available to
print out for students and teachers.

Ancestry Library, HeritageQuest and Sanborn Maps

1. Clicked on Immigration & Travel and put in Titanic. Came up
with 3 other ships on the White Star line. The Majestic, Olympic,
and Republic which all had pictures with brief histories of each
ship. I was impressed with this feature and the fact you could zoom
in for a closer look.

2.  Under search clicked on Newspapers & Publications. All I could
pull up were Obituary listings.

3. I searched under Books then Places. Put in Brown County,
South Dakota and came up with one book, A Brief History of
South Dakota.


Common Core: 2.8.5 Analyze and respond to multiple resources
reflecting the diverse heritage of SD, the US, and the world.
2.8.7 Use electronic/digital tools and resources to locate and
creatively share information.

Lesson for 7th or 8th grade
Create a Family Tree using AncestryLibrary and HeritageQuest
going back as many generations as possible. Using Sanborn Maps
find a map of one town for one selected family on the tree.

ArchiveGrid & CAMIO

1.  To read the papers of Theodore Schultz you would go to Iowa
State University. I then clicked on Read More and found out
he taught at Iowa State and specialized in agricultural economics.
He was well known for innovative theories in agriculture and was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics

2.  Charles Dicken's England: Refined time period on the left hand
side and put in Dress getting no results for England. Narrowed it
down by putting in British Fashion and found a picture of a women's dress and put in British Clothing and found a good picture
of a Man's outfit.
      I'm definitely going to recommend this site to our Art teacher.
She does quite a few research projects and I can see where this would be very useful.

Common Core:  Speaking and Listening Grade 11-12 : 5
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas.
Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio,
visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance
understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence to add interest.

     After reading Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar students will design
a museum exhibit using at least 4 of the subject areas on CAMIO.
For example Photographs, Costume and Jewelery, Sculpture, etc.

  

 
  
 
 

WorldCat

Advanced Challenge

1.  First of all let me say I really enjoyed working with this site. It
was easy to navigate and I found that the more specific you were
the easier it was to find your information.
     Started out using a basic search for this first question and put in
Luther, Martin and of course ended up getting a huge amount of
books on Martin Luther King, Jr. Went to the Advanced search and
put in Luther, Martin with the limiters Juvenile and Non-Fiction
but still came up with more on Martin King Jr. Then specified more
by putting in Luther, Martin monk. Bingo!! got 26 results. Chose
the books Luther: biography of a reformer from Augustana and
Martin Luther from the Brookings Public Library. I liked the Material Type feature in the record which gave somewhat of a grade level for the book. Also liked the Libraries tab at the top of
page which got you right to the list of libraries that had the book.
I ended up using the Advanced Search for the rest of the questions
and as I said found it very easy to use.

2.  Started by putting in a specific Shakespeare work, Romeo and
Juliet but decided this would take to long so put in Shakespeare's
Classics Graphic Novels and came up with 41 results. It pretty
much covered all of his plays. Chose Romeo & Juliet: a graphic
novel, Publisher Towester: Classical Comics

3.  Using the Advanced Search and putting in the Limiters Musical
Scores, Any Audience, Any Context, and Any Format I put in My
Fair Lady and got 491 results. Thought this was somewhat high so
narrowed it down by using My Fair Lady score and got 131 results.
Thought this was a little strange since I had checked the box which
just limited it to Musical Scores already. My choice had the Accession No. 998214 and was available at the University of Minnesota.
     I do request materials from the Public Library for teachers and will definitly use this to see what is available outside of South Dakota.

Common Core:

     I'm not sure how effective this would be for student use. Possibly could be a tool they would use further in college research.
Could introduce it briefly with that in mind. Would most likely use
it with teachers who are struggling with Common Core objectives.
It came up with 307 results with information on Common Core and
most of it looked very informative and worthwhile.