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Websites that do not fall under one of the other categories, but still benefit the librarian or the students I teach.

The Closing Match: El Deafo vs The Port Chicago 50 vs We Were Liars — @SLJsBoB SLJ's Battle of the Books. Find a Book - Welcome | The Lexile® Framework for Reading. Basic Search: NoveList K-8. Home | Mackin Educational Resources. Junior Library Guild. School Library Journal | The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens. Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Library Science Degree + Online Masters in Library & Information Science Programs. WBID Summative Evaluation Plan. Summative Evaluation Plan The Teacher's (Multimedia) Toolbox In order to determine the efficacy, efficiency, and appeal of Web Based Instruction created for The Teacher's (Multimedia) Toolbox it is necessary to create a framework to conduct a summative evaluation of the program. This evaluation will occur well after implementation, once the instruction has been used by a significant number of students, and is considered 'mature' and is no longer undergoing major revisions.

The summative evaluation plan of this WBI will consist of an examination of the components of the instruction, learner attitudes toward the instruciton, and various performance data that when examined in combination, will provide an accurate and detailed picture of how this implementation of WBI is performing. The summative evaluation identifies the people, materials, and resources involved in delivering the WBI. National Geographic - Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888. PBS KIDS. BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts. ABCya.com | Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities. Nebraska Library Commission.

What Students Don't Know. CHICAGO -- For a stranger, the main library at the University of Illinois at Chicago can be hard to find. The directions I got from a pair of clerks at the credit union in the student center have proven unreliable. I now find myself adrift among ash trees and drab geometric buildings. Finally, I call for help. Firouzeh Logan, a reference librarian here, soon appears and guides me where I need to go. Several unmarked pathways and an escalator ride later, I am in a private room on the second floor of the library, surrounded by librarians eager to answer my questions. Most students never make it this far.

This is one of the sobering truths these librarians, representing a group of Illinois universities, have learned over the course of a two-year, five-campus ethnographic study examining how students view and use their campus libraries: students rarely ask librarians for help, even when they need it. However, the researchers did not place the onus solely on students. Pragmatism vs. An Interactive Timeline of Music Genre Popularity 1950 to Now. I Love Libraries. Welcome to Fayette County Public Schools.