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Web Site Smarts

Power Point Evaluating WebSites

To start Website Evaluation go to Highland High's Library page: http://hhs.twinriversusd.org/students

Domain Suffix Practice Sheet

Evaluating Websites -    http://guides.library.vcu.edu/evaluate 
Includes videos on:
Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly Articles
Types of Scholarly Articles
Critically Evaluating Websites
HOW TO FIND THE AUTHOR OF A WEBPAGE
LOCATING AUTHOR, SOURCE CREATOR OF WEBSITE

URL - Search

The CRAAP Test - evaluate materials - video here:

http://gwinnett.libguides.com/content.php?pid=631035&sid=5233068

DATA BASE Search Strategies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9MPZTDAls

Boolean Operators http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vube-ZcJFk4   

Search Engine Basics
http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/search/SET.swf
Search Engine Advanced - will need password from Search Engine Basics to use: http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/search/SET.swf

Internet Archive - The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. http://archive.org/

UNDERSTANDING A URL - this video will explain what a URL is and how to decode it. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15SBe3diu4&feature=em-subs_digest&safe=active

 

GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE ON THE WEB. 

Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation

 

NEED A SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR?

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Geography Websites

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WORLD INFO ZONE provides country studies and news for all world destinations. A global dimension to education: global communication, diversity, culture and citizenship.

BRAIN POP GEOGRAPHY

DK WORLD DESK ON LINE - will link you to the countries of the world. Under "Already a User?" use the password: onlineworld to access the site.

FACT MONSTER COUNTRIES -  Each Country Profile provides information on: Geography · Maps · Flag · History · Current ruler · Area · Population · Capital · Largest cities · Languages · Ethnicity/race · Religion · Literacy rate · Economy · Government 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - "Where in the world" - check this site out for current country information. 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - COUNTRY STUDIES - Type in the country's name and find the facts.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/edu/Sites-for-Learning-About-Countries.html - Sites for learning about countries.
CIA - The World Factbook 

ON-LINE ATLASES 
http://www.worldatlas.com
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-atlas/
http://www.atlapedia.com/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids-world-atlas/maps.html
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/


 

Informational Text ONLINE

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To read THE SACRAMENTO BEE ON ONLINE click here: 
  http://circulationportal.sacbee.com/NIESBOlive/mie.html
City/School:   
foothill high school - sacramento
Password:     
king

TEEN TRIBUNE A daily news sites for teens. Each day the most compelling, relevant and interesing news for teens are posted. Stories are selected by teen working closely with professional journalists. http://tweentribune.com/teen

Newsela Nonfiction Literacy a new website that provides students with unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common-Core aligned quizzes, with new articles everyday (summary from their website).  Teachers can create classes and then assign current event articles for their students to read.  Some Newsela articles also have quizzes that students can take and then are automatically graded.  The best thing is the student can change the Lexile level of the article (reading level starts at grade 4).http://www.newsela.com/

Looking for newspaper articles on line? Try this link: https://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search to search by search term, event, date etc.

Rewordify - http://rewordify.com/  Rewordify.com helps people read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Teachers use it to save time and increase learning from any English text. Just paste in a difficult English sentence, paragraph, or more (or enter a web page URL) and click the button. You'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding now. No dictionary needed! Plus, the easier version is specially highlighted to help build vocabulary.

 

CNN STUDENT NEWShttp://www.cnn.com/studentnews/ 
Designed to be used in middle & high school classroom.

Google News Archive - http://news.google.com/newspapers

Mrs. Boyd's Fast Food Assignment

For your Nutritional values & fast food chains use these links:

NUTRITION LABELING at fast food restaurants  http://www.phila.gov/health/pdfs/WhyMenu.pdf  

Drive Through Diet      http://www.wakehealth.edu/Drive-Thru-Diet/ 

Compare fast food calories & nutrition         http://fast-food-nutrition.findthebest.com/    

Fast Food Nutrition Information
http://tmedweb.tulane.edu/mu/teachingkitchen/community-member-information/resources-for-home/fast-food-nutrition-information/ 
 

Library Homepage

 

 

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Stop by the library to see our poetry collection.


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Library Orientation

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Tutoring After School
Has Started

   Click on pdf below for schedule:

Tutoring2014-15 MH Schedule.pdf

The Role of the Teacher Librarian

Role of School Librarian & Common Core

What do Teacher Librarians Do?

What do Teacher Librarians Teach?

Look at the DIGITAL SKILLS our students will need 21st-century-DIGITAL skills-poster.pngto be successful 21st century students.

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If you have already registered
& used the coupon code

use this link to access
RESEARCH READY:

https://app.researchready.com/login

 

Guides to Research Ready 

To download click on the name of the lesson:

Sources, Sources, Sources Guide
INTERNET 101

Guide_Website_evaluation.doc
Guide to Conquer Research Project

Guide - Cite It Before You Write It-COPYA
Guide - Inquiring Minds Want to Know

 

 

To register.

you will need a current email address.

Go to :
 https://app.researchready.com/register

to complete your Research Ready registration.

The coupon code you'll need to use is:

31ed85

Writing a Research Paper - Videos etc
Why you should start your research with a librarian - video

Math Resources

math wordle.jpgMATH OPEN RESOURCES - A free interactive math textbook on the web. Initially covering high-school geometry. http://www.mathopenref.com/index.html

SOCRATIVE - join in on any device!

SocraticIMAGE.jpegTo join me at Socrative click here: http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom

Type in FHSLibrary for room number and we can begin!

 

 

SAVE YOUR WORK TO SCHOOL LOOP!

Please remember to save all your work to your app_sl_logo_header.pngSCHOOL LOOP locker!
Do NOT save your work to the desktop - you may lose your work!

Plagiarism - What is it? How do you avoid it? What is Copyright?

Click here for an animated slideshow reviewing the problem of plagiarism. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Take this quiz about plagiarism from Monash University: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/tutorials/citing/citing-quiz/quiz.swf

From the University of Southern Mississippi's library a Plagiarism Tutorial to help you understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. This site includes a pretest, tutorial and post test.        
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/plagiarismtutorial.php

COPYRIGHT - This site includes topics such as:: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators. http://www.teachingcopyright.org/

COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE - learn what they are and how to use materials properly - http://21cif.com/tutorials/micro/mm/copyright/

Public Domain, Free Use & Copyleft Media - from Dulcinea, Librarians of the Internet - http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.html?topic=/categories/technology/free-use-media

LEGALLY RE-USEABLE MEDIA - http://beyond4walls.pbworks.com/w/page/59336520/Legally%20Reusable%20Media A wiki with lots of resources dealing with fair use, copyright, avoiding plagiarism etc.

Celebrities Accused of Plagiarism: http://content.easybib.com/did-you-know-that-these-celebrities-were-accused-of-plagiarism/?utm_campaign=Guest%20Posting&utm_medium=blog&utm_source=guestpost#.U_du7cVdUud

Videos discussing PLAGIARISM:
By Common Craft:  http://www.commoncraft.com/video/plagiarism
A Prezi about plagiarism: http://prezi.com/aplvxx64g8bm/copy-of-plagiarism/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=cop

Bibliography & Citing Sources/Templates

MLA CITATION BASICS - MLA 7th edition - click here for a 24 page explanation of MLA citations - from EasyBib

Parenthetical Citations (in text citations) Click on the link below for an explanation of the whys & hows of in text citation:
http://content.easybib.com/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-parenthetical-citations-mla/#.U2O0ZaIwjhI

Sites to help you create a proper bibliography:

World Book Citation Maker to access go to the California Learns Portal, http://teens.californialearns.org/ in and click on World Book (on left hand side of page) and click on any level EXCEPT KIDS and then look for Citation Makerunder the heading RESEARCH TOOLS.

Citation Maker -MLA Secondary/Elementary & APA are available.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the CITATION MAKER http://secondary.oslis.org/cite-sources

CITING SOCIAL MEDIA - wondering how to cite Twitter, Youtube, Blogs etc. check here: citing social media

CITING AN IMAGE - click here to download a WORD document that will tell you how.

SON OF CITATION MACHINE - Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources. http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?start=#

LITERACY EDUCATION ON LINE - this page will walk you through the process of writing an annotated bibliography
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/annotated.html

EASY BIB is an automatic bibliography composer. When you have sources you need to cite properly for your research paper, EasyBib will help you format your sources quickly and accurately. http://www.easybib.com/

MLA CITATION WIZARD -  from 21st Century Information Fluencyhttp://21cif.com/tools/cite/mla/index.html

BIB ME -  fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - http://www.bibme.org/

KNIGHT CITE CITATION SERVICE - http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

CITE THIS FOR ME HARVARD - https://www.citethisforme.com/

HOW DO I CITE.....  http://content.easybib.com/frequent-citation-questions/#google_image

POD CAST from Kaplan University called What is Plagiarism?  http://www.screencast.com/t/ZXBOGWCIa

MLA Format en Espanol - MLA format in Spanish -  http://www.cva.itesm.mx/biblioteca/pagina_con_formato_version_oct/mla.html

NOODLEBIB - Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleTools Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool. http://www.noodletools.com/login.php

How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents - to learn how click on this link:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/how-to-create-bibliography-in-google.html#.U1bQmKJtpqw

MLA - Online WORD Doc Internet Citation Practice Sheet

GROUP PRACTICE - How Do You Spell Ms?

Historical Investigation MLA Online Citation Practice Sheet

Avoid Plagiarism & Citation Powerpoint

Looking for information about 

Annotated Bibliographies? Try here:
Click here for a Power Point about
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

From Cornell University’s Library “How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography" - http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm

OWL Purdue Online Writing LabAnnotated Bibliography http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

University of Maryland University  College Video/tutorial on ‘HOW TO WRITE AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY"
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/bibliography_tutorial.cfm

School of Liberal Arts Indiana University University Writing Center, Preparing an Annotated Bibliography  
http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/uwc/uploads/docs/Annotated_Bibliography,_Preparing_an.pdf

Writing an Annotated Bibliography from Writing Across the Curriculum by Sandra Nagy -
contains clear breakdown of how to write an annotated bibliography, step by step and has many samples and examples for you to review.
http://write.siu.edu/_common/documents/handouts/writing-an-annotated-bibliography.pdf

 

What Are In-Text Citations? This Video will tell you:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5igNRmKLug&feature=em-subs_digest

Research Support

EasyBib MLA Visual Guides:
(from EASY-BIB)
depending on your material, click on Part 1 or Part 2
 Part 1 -Websites, Journals, Databases, Films & Videos, Photos & Digital Images, Books, Newspapers, Magazines & Chapters.
Part 2 - Encyclopedias, Interviews, Dictionaries, Bibles, Lectures, Reports, TV & Radio Broadcasts, Scholarly Projects, Blogs & Musical Recordings

The Purdue Online Writing Lab - OWL

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

MLA Formatting & Style Guide

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

APA Style Guide

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/

10 STEPS TO BETTER WEB RESEARCH -   Want to learn how to do better research on the Internet? This resource organized by Dulcinea Media is broken into 3 sections - "Where to search?", "Planning your research" and "Evaluating your results". http://www.sweetsearch.com/TenSteps

MLA TUTORIAL: From The University of Southern Mississippi, this site has a pretest, tutorial and post test to prepare you to use MLA style properly. http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/mlatutorial/tutorialindex.php

ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations. http://www.encyclopedia.com/

SHMOOP  will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how literature & history are relevant today. Shmoop makes learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. http://www.shmoop.com/

PUTTING THE RESEARCH PROCESS TO WORK  -  a step by step tutorial walking you through the research process (A project of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia)  http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit02/search02_01.phtml

ProCon  is a nonprofit public charity that has no government affiliations of any kind. Their  purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We do not express opinions on our research projects. Go to: http://www.procon.org/ 

Ten Steps to Better Web Research - from the
SWEETSEARCH search engine

Part 1 - Deciding Where to Search
Part 2 - Planning Your Reserach
Part 3 - Evaluating Your Search Results

The Top 10 Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia

Creating Key Terms - check out this TACKK

A RESEARCH GUIDE FOR STUDENTS - There are writing guides, literature guides, and help you write your research papers. Scholars and librarians have collated some of the best resources for literary research and this site has the latest styleguides to guide you through footnoting, referencing and bibliographies. Explore our in-depth resources for key literary works or visit our ask & answer section to submit your research dilemmas. http://www.aresearchguide.com/

Spanish Stories, Vocabulary Practice & Recipes (Spanish & French) Sites

SPASspanish_flag.jpgThe sites will provide you with stories in Spanish
and vocabulary practice.
http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp
http://www.miscositas.com/cuentos.html


NOAH COMPRENDE  is a PBS show that introduces children to the Spanish language through animated videos with embedded games. Go to Noah's homepage to see what is offered.   http://pbskids.org/noah/index.html

VOCABULARY PRACTICE:
This site has games in Latin, French, German & Spanish
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/foreign-language/

        RECIPE SITES

SPANISH:
http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Cooking/World_Cuisines/Latin_American/     Click on your country's name to link you to their food and recipes

http://www.world-recipes.info/   Recipes are listed by country or region. Look at the country list on the left side of the page, find your country and click

http://www.spain-recipes.com/  Authentic recipes from Span

http://mexican.food.com/  Food.com's mexican food section

http://user.xmission.com/~dderhak/recipes.html  Favorite food recipes from Spain

http://recipesource.com/  Recipes are organized into two major groups - recipes primarily identified with an ethnic cuisine are broken down by region and ethnic group, while other recipes are categorized by the type of dish.

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/world-cuisine/european/spanish/ All recipes site with Spanish recipes.

http://www.spain.info/en_US/saborea/recetas/  Recipes from Espana

http://www.foodnetwork.com/regional-international/traditional-spanish-recipes/pictures/index.html  The Food Network's Site - Traditional Spanish food.

HUNGER GAMES in Spanish

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FRENCH:

http://www.learnfrenchathome.com/frenchrecipes.htm

http://allrecipes.fr/

http://www.foodbeam.com/2008/05/01/des-recettes-en-francais-sur-foodbeam-recipes-now-in-french-on-foodbeam/

http://www.12speak.com/blog/top-recipe-to-learn-french-crepes/

http://everydayfrenchchef.com/recipes/fish-and-shellfish/pave-de-cabillaud-tout-simple/

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110509045221AAiz0zN

http://francais-anglais.blogspot.com/2009/12/french-to-english-recipes-for-christmas_28.html

Foothill High's Book Club

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Our next meeting is Tuesday, March 16, 2015. We are to bring books related to Women's History Month. See you at lunch in the library!
 

Letter Generator

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/  
Use this site to write a friendly or business letter.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/01/  
PURDUE WRITING A BASIC BUSINESS LETTER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egeyiUpFsaw
YouTube Video How to Write a Business Letter

http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/newspaper-generator.html
Funny Make Your Own Newspaper

Making a tri-fold brochure using PowerPoint?

World Languages on Line

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Want to practice World Language on line? Here are some online links that you can use.

Sacramento Public Library has program called MANGO an Interactive language learning for more than 35 world languages. Available at:go http://www.saclibrary.org/  click on RESEARCH tab, then on LANGUAGE LEARNING tab, then on the link to MANGO. If you have your own library card you can log in and start a class, or click on the TRY IT FIRST button to see how the program works.

LIVING LANGUAGE LAB - http://www.livinglanguage.com/languagelab/german
BBC - German Language Site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/talk/introductions/
DUOLINGO - https://www.duolingo.com/
LINGT - Frau Templeton's Class - http://lingtlanguage.com/FrauTempleton/

Freshmen Skills - Budget Web Sites

Animal Sites

Encyclopedia of Life - To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.  http://eol.org/

World Wildlife Fund - The world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. http://worldwildlife.org/    for your specific animal go here http://worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status

ARKive - Freely accessible to everyone and preserved for the benefit of future generations, ARKive is a truly invaluable resource for conservation, education and public awareness. http://www.arkive.org/

In addition to these websites you should look at our CALIFORNIA LEARNS PORTAL, where you'll find online encyclopedias, data bases and other science links and use, sweetsearch, and encyclopedia.com.

SPECIES LIST/ENDANGERED ANIMALS - https://worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status

 

BLUFORD HIGH SERIES - AUDIO BOOKS

The publisher of  THE BLUFORD HIGH SERIES

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They can be downloaded to an Ipad, Itunes, Iphones and other mp3 players. The site will explain more.

Library Information

Library Hours:  7:30 AM - 2:30 PM
The library is opened during lunch.

 

Phone:  916-566-3445 Ext 61207

Staff:

Joanne Ligamari, Teacher Librarian                                

To get to Foothill Library's Catalog, (OPAC) click on this link:
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To get to the Sacramento Public Library click
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Search Engines other than GOOGLE

The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia

What's Wrong With Wikipedia?
Using Wikipedia as an academic research resource - watch this video:
http://tinyurl.com/l9tfmku

12 Ways to be More Search Savy

Here are search engines that are academically sound and appropriate for students.

www.sweetsearch.com - This is a search engine for students. Their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved all websites listed.

http://www.instagrok.com/index.html - a search engine for VISUAL LEARNERS.

http://www.goorulearning.org  With Gooru, a free search engine for learning, you can quickly find topic-relevant, standards-aligned resources and organize them into teachable and sharable “collections” — all in one place.

http://www.ipl.org/  -  This search engine is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment.  Thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections.

http://www.refseek.com/ - Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

http://scholar.google.com/  - Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. For tips on using GOOGLE SCHOLAR click here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html
Click here for a video on how to use Google Scholar: http://www.schooltube.com/video/8671ab103ba2504cb94b/Using%20Google%20Scholar
 

http://www.google.com/advanced_search - Improve your searching by using Google's Advanced Search function.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/ - a source with more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauri with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.

http://blekko.com/ - a free alternative to search engines & does not contain sponsored advertisements. Provides results, not quantity.

http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page -  is a targeted search engine that compiles hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving intelligent search and a personal Web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results immediately and find them quickly later.

http://www.infotopia.info/ - an academic search engine accessing websites selected by librarians, teachers & library & educational consortica.

http://www.procon.org  - ProCon.org is a nonprofit public charity that has no government affiliations of any kind. Their  purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We do not express opinions on our research projects.

http://www.magportal.com/ - a search engine that finds individual articles from many freely accesible magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. 

 http://infomine.ucr.edu/  - INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

This PDF has a listing of Academic & Scholarly Search Engines & Resources - ACADEMIC

The Information Literacy Process 

 

 

LIBRARY SKILLS

Knowing how to find information in the library is important. These web sites will help you know how to navigate the library shelves and learn something about library history and Melvil Dewey.

ORDER IN THE LIBRARY - review your knowledge of decimals and how books are put on the shelves. 

LEARN ABOUT THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM at any of these links:

DO WE REALLY KNOW DEWEY?
LET'S DO THE DEWEY!
Take the DEWEY CHALLENGE!
or a DEWEY QUIZ - PASS ALL 3 LEVELS!
or try your hand at 8 different online games about the DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM!
 

HOW TO TAKE GREAT NOTES VIDEO

HOW TO TAKE CORNELL NOTES VIDEO

Foothill High - DATA BASES


The California Learns Instructional Resource Portal provides access to both subscription-based services and free educational Web sites. These portal resources have been selected to help you succeed in school.Researching? This is a good place to start.

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Username: foothillhigh

Password: school

 

We have 3 new data  bases at Foothill High. The links, user name & passwords are below:

USERNAME: foothillhsteen

PASSWORD: foothillhsteen

 

 

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healthandwellness.jpg  http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/

 

    financial.jpg  http://financialliteracy.rosendigital.com/

 

INFOBASE LEARNING - CURRENT EVENTS & ISSUES
HISTORY, SCIENCE, MATH, LITERATURE ETC.

Username - scoe Password - factsonfile

Click here to download the "Using Data Bases" worksheet.

 

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SHMOOP - it's not exactly a data base, but it has LOTS of resources for high school & college students. Test guides, study guides, book summaries and more. Check out SHMOOP at http://www.shmoop.com/

Videos to help you learn how to use data bases properly:

What is a data base and why you need them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2GMtIuaNzU&safe=active
Pro/Con Worksheet to use while watching video
Web Search Strategies in Plain English (using a search engine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_rFFosTEMc
How to Use a Data Base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlStByygQVw (Brought you by the Library Sock Puppet)
How To Search in Plain English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPlHpvSZTY
Search Library Data Bases Like a Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6X8QyqN0gU&noredirect=1
Developing Key Words
How to Improve Your Search Terms
Searching Using Keywords
Search Keywords Tutorial
Developing a Search Strategy 
How To Improve Your Search Terms
Search Smarter,Search Faster (Aussie!)

FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A MODERN LIBRARIAN:
Quick Tips & Shortcuts for Database Searching

What is and how to do
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

SEARCH DATABASES LIKE A PRO - video
What are DATABASES & Why You Need Them

A visual guide to using Google Books  http://books.google.com/  - to learn how click here:
http://www.slideshare.net/edutechguy/a-visual-guide-to-the-use-of-google-books-for-research

http://www.teenhealthandwellness.com/

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