THING 9 DATABASES AND SEARCH TOOLS

I checked out most of the links in thing 9.  I plan to try out the saving feature that is now available in gale products to google drive.  I had forgotten about the way back machine.  I also appreciated the google tricks and the 6 Steps to Teaching Students to Search.  I plan on using and sharing the 15 must have google lesson plans to teach Students effective Search Skills with the other librarians in my district.  I did try out some of the google lessons and didn't do as well as I thought I should have!  For this assignment, I put the kid friendly search engines off of my page:

https://sites.google.com/a/schalmont.net/jefferson-library/home


I have enjoyed this class.  I have completed ten assignments and would like to continue but realistically I have a great deal going on right now and I don't think I will have the time.  I look forward to taking your class again next year.  I loved the organization and I loved learning new things that have helped me in my job.  It is really hard to get technical support at my school.  Most of the time I have to do a work around.  The information that is available in this class allowed me to succeed at working around the technology limitations of my school so that there are more tech opportunities for kids.  For example, I used to use the voice thread and didn't realize that you had to pay for it so it stopped working and I couldn't get anyone to help me with that.  I learned about movenote in your class and switched to that.  When I had trouble with that, I was able to switch to screencastify another tool that I learned about in your class.  Every day I have students who want to do the weekly library update and now they are able to.