Monday, March 30, 2009

Curriculum Materials Center - temporarily relocating to the Virginia Lacy Jones Exhibition Hall, Upper Level of the Library

In Preparation for the renovation project, The CMC -Curriculum Materials Center is temporarily being relocated to the Virginia Lacy Jones Exhibition Hall on the upper level of the Library. This is with effect April 1, 2009.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Educational Materials

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Databasehas lesson plans that are tied to national standards in Social Studies (National Council for the Social Studies), History (National Center for History in the Schools), and Geography (National Council Geography Education). Relevant lesson plans and educational resources located on other websites have also been identified, to help educators build a broad study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade into their curriculum. http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/education/index.faces

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE).

FREE provides educators with lesson plans, primary documents, science visualizations, math challenges, literary works, paintings, music manuscripts and many other vital classroom resources. http://www.free.ed.gov/

Thursday, March 5, 2009

New From YouTube: Free Downloads of College Lectures

New From YouTube: Free Downloads of College Lectures
YouTube began testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site from partner institutions — including colleges — rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. That means people can grab lectures from Duke and Stanford Universities and several institutions in the University of California system to watch any time, with or without an Internet connection. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3615/new-from-youtube-free-downloads-of-college-lectures

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database

Please check out this new database at http://www.auctr.edu/rwwl/Home/databasesincludinggalileo/tabid/108/Default.aspx#c

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database is the most comprehensive source for PreK-12 and young adult reading materials, with over 300,000 reviews, all of which are keyword searchable. There are over 1.4 million records in the database and they are searchable by awards, prizes, best book and reading list entries. Links are included to over 100,000 authors and illustrators, with links to lesson plans. Most reading measurement programs are included. A free newsletter is also available to anyone interested.