1. English Language Arts Skills Improvement where you can do both informational and literature practice tests. The tests not only improve your reading skills but also are quite informational (I had to try one of course). I also think that the practice essays would be helpful as writing is also a good way to learn.
2. The Career Center is a super place for adults to find help with just about anything they need help with. Build Your Workplace Skills would be the place to start for this person, just about everything she'd need to brush up on is here. I would also highly recommend looking at the Interview with Confidence area under the Job Search and Workplace Skills. Your interview is your first impression on a future employer and the most important.
3. The Career Center is also where i would send this person. You can look at the different careers, find out what nursing or pharmacy really involves. There are a couple different spots, Guidance and Learn about a career where you can go to read about your possible new profession.
Wish there had been something like this when I was trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life. Not that I'm complaining about what I do, I love what I do.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Lesson 2/February 2, 2015
ChiltonLibrary
Extremely easy to use and navigate. Even as someone who is lucky just to know how to check the oil I'd feel pretty confident using this site to repair/change something on a car. The instructions are what I'd call 'dumbed down' so that anyone could use it, step by step. The videos are great for people who need to see how something is done rather than read about it. After all, we all learn differently. I believe the part number for the transaxle is A131L. I've tried to suggest this site to some of our male patrons who come in looking for the manuals and unfortunately most of them what the book. I will keep trying however.
Mango Languages
I would have him take a look at the list of languages to make sure the specific one he wants is available. After that show him how to set up and account and learn away. Mango makes it so easy to maneuver their site. Reminds me that i once started to learn Spanish and should get back to it. :-)
TumblebookLibrary
Tumblebooks is such a fun site. I do, however, find myself playing more games than anything else. Searching is pretty simple, put in author, title, subject or genre to get results. So, for the kid looking for mysteries, simply type in mystery and show him what's available. For the STEM story time I would suggest Bones Never Lie by Elizabeth MacLeod. I think forensics is an interesting topic for people of any age and learning history never hurts.
Extremely easy to use and navigate. Even as someone who is lucky just to know how to check the oil I'd feel pretty confident using this site to repair/change something on a car. The instructions are what I'd call 'dumbed down' so that anyone could use it, step by step. The videos are great for people who need to see how something is done rather than read about it. After all, we all learn differently. I believe the part number for the transaxle is A131L. I've tried to suggest this site to some of our male patrons who come in looking for the manuals and unfortunately most of them what the book. I will keep trying however.
Mango Languages
I would have him take a look at the list of languages to make sure the specific one he wants is available. After that show him how to set up and account and learn away. Mango makes it so easy to maneuver their site. Reminds me that i once started to learn Spanish and should get back to it. :-)
TumblebookLibrary
Tumblebooks is such a fun site. I do, however, find myself playing more games than anything else. Searching is pretty simple, put in author, title, subject or genre to get results. So, for the kid looking for mysteries, simply type in mystery and show him what's available. For the STEM story time I would suggest Bones Never Lie by Elizabeth MacLeod. I think forensics is an interesting topic for people of any age and learning history never hurts.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Lesson 1/January 2015
1a World Book School Edition
1. I looked into the science projects section. I'm not much into science so thought it would be a good place to start. There were lots of cool and easy projects listed. Kids would have an easy time finding something they liked to do.
2. I took a look at the Quizzes and Activities section. It was great. I failed miserably at the quizzes i took however. Our children's librarian does a Jeopardy! event with the older kids so I told her about it to give her ideas about questions she can do.
3. Being able to email the book to yourself or saving under your research is awesome, readily available. The fact that you can have the book read to you is very helpful as many students drive to school so they can listen on their tablets on the drive.
4. The "How to Research" section has great information. It pretty much walks you through, step by step, on how to research and then write it up.
1b World Book Public Library Edition
1. I went under Compare Places where first I looked under Belize as I have 2 nieces that live there. I like how on the first page you get the quick facts first. This has most of the information kids would need when giving a report. Then you can delve a little deeper into the place you are researching. Then when i picked the second place to compare (Costa Rica) I was impressed with how it showed the 2 side by side so you could easily compare them.
2. What a cool site. I looked at the Interactive Earth maps. Everything you need to do a report on a state or country is right there at your fingertips. Again the fact that you can save the information, email it or even listen to it is a plus for busy people.
3. Very similar to the school edition. Easy to find, figure out how to do the citations and save.
1c World Book Foreign Language Edition
1&2 Since I do not know any foreign languages this was a challenge for me. I could search since it is basically the same as the English edition and figured you can do all the same things with it, such as saving and emailing. I searched the term 'cat' but 'gato' didn't come up. Mo Willems did though (I love Elephant and Piggie by the way). I was confused. We don't have much of a foreign language speaking population here so not sure how much it will get used. I do however know it is available and that is the first step.
1. I looked into the science projects section. I'm not much into science so thought it would be a good place to start. There were lots of cool and easy projects listed. Kids would have an easy time finding something they liked to do.
2. I took a look at the Quizzes and Activities section. It was great. I failed miserably at the quizzes i took however. Our children's librarian does a Jeopardy! event with the older kids so I told her about it to give her ideas about questions she can do.
3. Being able to email the book to yourself or saving under your research is awesome, readily available. The fact that you can have the book read to you is very helpful as many students drive to school so they can listen on their tablets on the drive.
4. The "How to Research" section has great information. It pretty much walks you through, step by step, on how to research and then write it up.
1b World Book Public Library Edition
1. I went under Compare Places where first I looked under Belize as I have 2 nieces that live there. I like how on the first page you get the quick facts first. This has most of the information kids would need when giving a report. Then you can delve a little deeper into the place you are researching. Then when i picked the second place to compare (Costa Rica) I was impressed with how it showed the 2 side by side so you could easily compare them.
2. What a cool site. I looked at the Interactive Earth maps. Everything you need to do a report on a state or country is right there at your fingertips. Again the fact that you can save the information, email it or even listen to it is a plus for busy people.
3. Very similar to the school edition. Easy to find, figure out how to do the citations and save.
1c World Book Foreign Language Edition
1&2 Since I do not know any foreign languages this was a challenge for me. I could search since it is basically the same as the English edition and figured you can do all the same things with it, such as saving and emailing. I searched the term 'cat' but 'gato' didn't come up. Mo Willems did though (I love Elephant and Piggie by the way). I was confused. We don't have much of a foreign language speaking population here so not sure how much it will get used. I do however know it is available and that is the first step.
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