CHS DATABASES

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CHS DATABASES

• OVERVIEW
• 2002 - 2003

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Foreign Language Choicesfor students

• Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Britannica Encyclopedia
• World Book Encyclopedia
• SIRS
• EBSCO Magazines/Newspapers
• CHS Library Foreign Language Links
• Winnebago Spectrum OPAC on-line and on school
  server

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Foreign Language Choices for Educators

• Student Offerings
• EBSCO Professional Development Collection
• Educators Guide
• Opportunity to post any websites, webquests,
  PowerPoints, etc. through the library website.
  Access will be there at all times for students -
  along with expectations, rubrics, etc.

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How do I find all of these things???
Lets start with Educators Guide - on the
cascading menu on the CHS Library Front Page.
Click on the box and go to the Guide Choices -
choose Foreign Language.
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Sites for Foreign Language Teachers
These links are posted alphabetically and are
there for your use. Links can be added from your
Favorites and then you can go to this at any
time without having to remember where your link
is.
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Foreign Language Links
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Foreign Language Pages
Links are listed for each curriculum. Again,
links can be added, updated, etc. at any time.
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Database Locations
Groliers
SIRS
Maine InfoNet Research Database
Winnebago
Britannica
Newspapers Magazines
Professional Collection
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GROLIERS Lands and People, Multimedia,
Encyclopedia Americana
Click on the icon to access Refer to the
business card to log-on User-Name
caribou Password viking Remind students that
the icon next to the one we just accessed is for
them to log-on at home. The first time they use
the database, they must set up their user
name/password client priveleges. Then, they can
access the database as they do here at school.
(They will receive an e-mail telling them what to
use for a name and password.)
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Use the search box in the lower right-hand
corner to search all three encyclopedias at the
same time. The search defaults to Article
Titles Only - Choose Full Text for more
complete results.
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Colored icons represent the encyclopedia the
article is posted from. LP Lands and People,
GME Multimedia, EAEncyclopedia Americana
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Encyclopedia Americana offers Journal articles
with teachers guides, Profiles (biographies),
Periodicals (magazines), Editors Picks -good
ideas!)
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Our Maine Databases will offer you the most
information - choose Dictionaries to go to
Britannica. Scroll down the listings for
Professional Collection. Suggest Academic
Search Premier or Mas Ultra for magazine,
newspaper articles which are current.
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To learn how to use the databases, go to our
Educators Guide Choose Tutorials Follow the
instructions for EBSCO Web Community This will be
a good tutorial to use with your students if they
are not familiar with database searching. All
databases are updated daily and will have the
most complete listing of magazines and newspaper
articles available.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Under Database Features, you will see that there
is news for today - and there is also an archive
of articles. Also, there is an almanac and
maps for the world. Check here often for
material.
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Winnebago Spectrum OPAC