Tennessee Electronic Library The new and improved edition.

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Tennessee Electronic LibraryThe new and improved
edition.

• Overview and training guide prepared for Lake
  City Elementary School
• By Kelly Raye Williams, LMS
• Revised
• September 9. 2013

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What is TEL?

• The Tennessee Electronic Library is a virtual
  library accessible from any computer with an
  internet connection in Tennessee.
• TEL provides access to more than 400,000
  electronic resources including
• Magazines, Newspapers, Practice Tests,
  e-books, Career Materials, Genealogy, Tennessee
  History, and Health Information.

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The Value of TEL

• TEL saves the schools and libraries of Tennessee
  94,445,493 each year.
• The total saving for each elementary is 23,357.
• These are subscription databases the state is
  funding for all Tennessee residents.

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Kids Info Bits

• Research database designed especially for K 2nd
  graders to learn researching skills. This
  database using picture icons to guide student
  searches.
• The following slides show a brief guided tour.

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Just click on your topic. Lets chose animals.
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Lets choose mammals. So, just click.
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Lets view Pandas. Just click.
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Note different types of sources
Legend to show reading level.
Choose and click
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Yes, when needed, it does read the article for
you.
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TEL 4 U!

• A Universe of Free Resources for Grades K-5.
  (Students and Teachers)!
• Includes
• Homework Help
• State History
• E-books
• Games and Activities
• The following slides show a
  brief guided tour.

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Just a few more

• InfoTrac Junior
• Gale Power Search
• Educators Complete Reference Center
• These three databases allow you to create your
  own account with an e-mail address so that you
  can save your searches. Please let me know when
  you want another training session on utilizing
  these databases.

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Create your personal account here
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Benefits of Creating Account
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Click on advanced search
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What I can do

• Save searches
• Bookmark articles
• Saved articles

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Now Announcing
The Complete World Book On-Line has been added to
TEL!
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New This year.

• World Book Encyclopedia has been purchased this
  year through our TEL funding!!!!
• Please note I am still learning how to create
  web pages using the SchoolinSites Program.
  Therefore, this presentation includes the picture
  icon for specific World Book interfaces, that
  will be added to our web page soon.

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Different Interfaces for World Book

• World Book Kids
• World Book Student
• World Book Advanced
• Early World of Learning
• The following slides show a brief guided tour.

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Type in your search term. Then press the search
button.
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Select article and click on hyperlink
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Notice the ability to save a new project. Be
sure to click on the articles you want placed in
this research project.
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No matter which interface you choose to utilize
from World Book Online, at the bottom of the page
you will find an training guide and online
tutorial. They are EXTREMELY helpful.
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The Learning Express Library
This database has test prep questions starting at
4th grade. Each user will need their e-mail
address to create an account. Test and modules
can be added to individual accounts and test
results can be printed.
The following slides show a brief guided tour.
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Our schools access to TEL can be found on the
LCES Library Media Center links page.

• http//www.lces.acs.ac/?PageNameLibraryPageLink
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• A copy of this document will also be available
  for your review on the media centers page.

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Happy Searching!!!!