Information Resources
Last week at school the computer network went 'kaput'. The whole network was fried and there was no wireless connection or any other type of internet access. In rare situations like this information is still accessible via traditional hardcopy resources.
The library I work in has a lot of reference material in the non-fiction shelves as the librarian found that students didn't use these books when they were in the reference corner.
As for online sources, I had a bit of a play and I like the look of One Look Dictionary. It has less ads than the Free Dictionary site and I think year 11 and 12 students could find the specialist dictionaries useful.
I found the online atlas resources a bit of a mixed bag...have I missed something here?
World Atlas was disappointing, too many ads, cluttered and a poor selection of countries. Atlapedia was OK for kids giving a straightforward comprehensive list of countries and matching fact files with cultural and geographic information. www.yourchildlearns has a nice easy-to-read map with clear labels but not much else. At this point I was getting 'bamboozled browsing brain' and really struggled with finding bibliographical guides and databases.
What I really need to do with this course is spend a whole week mucking around with all these databases until it all sinks in. At the moment my saturation threshold is way too shallow.
I read the VERSO article (Ballard, 2008) and wondered what would be the next 'new' thing. Technology is so fluid now that anything is possible.
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