Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Proquest was very entertaining since I spent way to much time looking up Irish recipes for
St. Patrick's Day. Found a yummy Chocolate Bread Pudding with Irish Whiskey Sauce that I
definitly will try. Created a RSS Feed to receive more before the big day.
Then decided to get serious and do some research on cyber bullying. Liked the way you could
jump back and forth from Full Text to Citation and also always being able to Click on the Back
to Results to get back to your full list. Thought the tabs at the top Scholarly Journals, Magazines,
Trade Publications, Newspapers and All Sources really pinpointed what the researcher would
need. The interface Language was nice but why not have the actual article in the language?

When I first used the Publication tab I put in the keyword Librarians and nothing came up.
Then noticed the hint to put a asterisk by the word and 3 came up. Also put in a specific one,
Library Journal and 4 more came up. Didn't find it to hard to figure out. Like how you can always
get back to the complete list of publications.

Does make one wonder why I'm subscribing to so many magazines and using precious funds
when it is all available on line.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Loved this site. The World Book Kids was impressive even though this is not my grade level.
Thought that 25 articles was more than enough for that age level. Wouldn't want to overwhelm
them with to much information. Also liked the How to Cite feature since it is never to early to
learn. The Translate Text and Read Aloud would be really fun to use and useful.

World Book Student was very usable also. A 155 articles was more than sufficient and the
Back in Time Articles was an interesting feature.

World Book Advanced will be very useful espcially for our Juniors when they do their research
papers. The Books to Read, Magazine Articles and Web Site Icons will be extremely useful. I
really liked the topic headings ex. Climate, Economy and Way of Life.

World Book Discover was easy also. Liked the comprehension questions on the side and of
course the Translation feature both here and on World Book Kids is nice even though are
foreign student population is not an issue at this time.
Just started today. Will have more later.