Beyond Eating Peanut Butter: ____Feeding Your Mind With Rich Resources in Many Formats from

Print and Hard Copies to Electronic and Digital

 

1. Library Online Public Access Computerized Catalogs also known as OPACS, a computerized list of materials held in a Library or Learning Center

a. OPACS online for Long Beach, California Public School Libraries links needed

b. Long Beach Public Library LBPLHomePage

c. Locating a Book anywhere in the World!WorldCat

 

2. Determine the Correct Title and Author of a Book and Spell them Correctly!

Use amazon.com search engine even with a portion of the correct title and its response should help you figure it out further as pictures of the books'

covers are also displayed in the results in order to help you further identify the book you're seeking!

a. Borders Books & amazon.com BordersBooks

 

3. Dewey Decimal Classification System (Use the categories to "browse" the shelves for books that interest you)

a. Dewey Decimal System pageThroughTheLibrarian'sEyes and Internet Subject Directory pageKidsClick

 

4. All about Books in digital, print, audio, and video on the web for free!

a. Elementary School Literature BookLists

b. Audio Books that are Free AudioBooksOnline

c. Print Books on the Web that are Free PrintBooksOnline

d. Books in many languages & much more! InternetPublicLibrary

e. Books in Genres ReadersRobot

f. Children's Picture Books PictureBooks

g. Public Librarian's BookloversLists BookLovers

h. IPod Ready Stories StoryNory

i. Video Book ReviewsPapercutsVideoBkReviews

j. KidsReads

K. Award Winning Children's Books DatabaseAwardWinningChildren'sBooks

l. Braille and Audio Books for "qualifying" individuals in the State of CaliforniaCaliforniaStateLibraryBrailleAndTalkingBookLibrary

m. Open Library: online, often-obscure and rare books (advanced reading level)OpenLibraryProject

n. eBooks online for free downloading from the open source Archive eBookArchive

o. Universal Digital Library offers 1.5 million works and counting! (Students you may need adult assistance understanding how to use this main site)UniversalDigitalLibraryProject

 

 

5. Activities with Books

a. Book Report Alternatives: Things you can do that show you've read the book! KathyMarie

b. Readers' Theatre ReadersTheatreScripts

c. Writing a Standard Book Report (there are also other good writing links on this page: 5 paragraph essay, research, etc.)StandardBookReport

 

6. Working with the Internet

a. KidsClick Kid safe search engine (more like a directory of elementary librarian scrutinized kid-safe websites)

b. RADCAB: Websites evaluation & authorityRADCAB

c. Inter Net Web Research ToolsBestTools

d. Boolean Search StrategiesBooleanTutorial

e. Netiquette: Interacting & writing in public. Within this PBWiki, go to the page, Nuts Over Netiquette!

f. iSkillsteaching them now for use now and students will need to be competent if they are college-boundiSkills

 

7. Doing your Research Projects and Writing:

a. Preparing for Research by Brainstorming What you know, What you want to know and learn, and Where to find outKWLTemplate

b. Super3 Research: Beginners and Kindergarten through 3rd graders steps Super3

c. Big6 Research: Intermediate and Advanced 4th graders and up steps Big6

d. Notetaking Strategies:What to write in order to remember Mind Maps/Graphic Oranizers with MindMapsGraphicOrganizersAcrossTheCurriculum

e. Keywords and Subjects: The Differences LibraryTutorial

f. MindMaps for Coherent Writing and Notetaking MindMapsForms

h. Bibliography how-to write and be sure about the style or format that your teacher wants: is it MLA, or APA, or Chicago? Infoplease

i. Overview of all aspects of doing research ResearchOverview

j. The Five Paragraph Essay: Critical for passing all major writing tests!TheFiveParagraphEssayAndOtherHelps

 

8. Homework & Tutorials

a. Long Beach Public Library Databases for Research: You will need a LIBRARY CARD NUMBER and PIN from your School Librarian, Ms. Melissa

Rentchler, in order to fully access LBPLDataBases

b. Home Work Help TelephoneLine Long Beach School District Monday through Thursday 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.HomeWorkHelpLine

c. Home Work Help at the Long Beach Public Libraries LBPLHomeworkHelp

d. County of Los Angeles Public Library Homework Help: An LA County Public Library Card is requiredCOLA

e. Schoolwork: Scroll down the first page to the section "find homework help for the following subjects here Schoolwork.ugh

f. Homework Center: Many research resources for many subjects Kindergarten through grade 12InfoPlease

g. Homework CenterFactMonsterresources & tutorials

h.AOLatSchool Elementary math homework help, tutorials, games

i. HomeworkSpot Elementary math & middle school homework help, tutorials, games

j. DiscoverySchool Homework links

GATE

n. Lemonade game: a virtual business to learn money handling, economics, customer satisfaction

LemonadeGame

o. Cool math: games, lessons, puzzles, fun!CoolMath

 

9. Online Resources Library of LinksLandMarkSchoolsKid Safe Search Engine

 

10. Tests

a. Test taking tips and strategies for the whole family! There's no need to sweat!TestTakingTips

 

11. Library Media Center Curriculum Alignments

a. ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards Performance Indicators CyberSmart

b. Long Beach District Language Arts OpenCourt

c. CSLA Library SkillsStrongLibraries

 

12. Interactive and Experiential/Experimentalism Learning (educators call this "constructivism" or "constructivist" learning) :

 

Face-to-face gaming that are Socialization-focused, that don't require technology to play only to access the list of choices,

and,

Internet Gaming Websites: either Socialization-focused or Individual/Solitary-focused, that do require technology to play

 

What is the Value of Gaming in a literacy environment?

What communities are being served? (young people, elderly, rural, homebound, adults, english as a second language, etc.)

And much, much more information.

Recent & definitive 1 hour March 2007 SirsiDynixInstitute Professional Development Presentation SirsiDynixInstitute

 

What is Participatory culture and what is the significance to teaching and learning?

MacArthur The John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation White Pape

 

a. Games from Around the World: A website about face-to-face, or old-fashioned games that don't require technology to play + many other

links from LibrariansNoTechnologyRequiredToPlayAndMoreLinks

b. Mahjong, SCRABBLE, and 234 other free downloadable games to your home computerSpinTopGames

 

13. Art I use in my Library lessons:

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a.OldTom

• by Author Leigh Hobbs when I connect visual arts to language arts through drawing and writing

b. The Draw Squad, The Secret City, and the New City Adventures 3 Dimensional Drawing Lessons CommanderMarkKistler

 

 

14. Library News Calendar of the Librarian's Announcement, Events & Projects for Everyone

 

 

 

15. Calendar of Holidays Around The World EarthCalendar EarthCalendar

 

16.Peanut Butter Wiki Information WikiHelp

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