Title - Student Resources In Context
Websites Address - http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/?userGroupName=orange_main
Website Content - Gale Resource Group has developed another website for library resources whose purpose is designing a broad based cite that allows students to peruse through a bunch of resources about all different types of topics. The site includes links on things from all different fields from science to politics to literature. As you pass through the links on some of the major subject headings they give you more specific things that you can look at. When looking up what is on the website on literature you are taken to a link of many of the frequently used titles that are given in the literature classes. This included many of the classics from Hamlet to Of Mice and Men. When digging deeper into the individual item they have plot summaries and critical reviews of the particular item as well as their own brief history of the book itself. In other areas they provide primary and reference resources to items that you want information on.
Website Review - Gale Student Resource Website consists of a lot of topical relevant information for teenagers in all subject areas. When considering the amount of research that students must do as well as giving them a historical background to any given topic, Gale provides an excellent website to do when beginning any topic of study. The only problem with this resource from my perspective is that it is limited to whatever the Gale Resource group considers relevant at any given time. While this may be easily done in fields that are about history or the sciences, as updates can be easily created, literature is a somewhat complicated field. Teachers rarely stick to any certain curriculum about what they teach. Gale has to rely on what is primarily taught in classes, and this is hard to determine for English literature. The cite receives high marks for usability, despite the fact that it may have limited resources in certain fields, which makes this a site well worth examining for any high school student.
Cite Annotation - Want the world of subjects at your fingertips? Not understand why Huck Finn thinks he's going to hell? What is stem cell research and why is it controversial? If you want the world at your fingertips, go to the Gale Student Resources Website.
About the people who produce the website - Gale, the company that does the development of the site considers itself to be among the premier web designers when it comes to creating e-resources for libraries and schools. The company maintains more than 600 databases online for libraries and schools to use on a variety of different topics. Some of their more famous databases include Primary Source Media and Macmillan Reference USA.
Genre - Database
Curriculum Ties - This website would tie well into almost any subject that you can imagine. For the teacher who is trying to get their students to write a research paper in whatever topic they choose, having the students view this website would be highly useful.
Booktalking ideas - N/A
Reading Level - Grade 7 +
Challenge Issues - None
Why Included - I wanted to include a database that was offered at the Library System that I worked for.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Gale Opposing Viewpoints
Title - Gale Opposing Viewpoints
website - http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/?userGroupName=orange_main
Content - Linked to the OC Public Libraries Website, Opposing Viewpoints contains arguments on all the latest social issues of the day from both sides of the issue. As many teens have to develp viewpoints papers in high school, this makes Viewpoints a very useful tool for teens to be able to develop an argument on any given topic. One such issue is Animal rights. Many people today are arguing whether animals should be given the same protections as people. They summarize the arguments at the link to each debate. In this instance they present one side of the argument that states that all animals are part of the same evolutionary chain. The other side of the argument is that animals certainly lack some of the spirit, mental abilities and other qualities of humans. Therefore animals should be able to be used in some circumstances that people should not. The site then presents several differnt articles that present in an intellectual argument, their side of the issue. The site contains almost all of the major debates of the day, from arguments about the death penalty, to abortion, to marijuana legalization.
Cite Review - The content of the site is amazing for finding stuff for papers, especially position papers that are frequently given to high school juniors. It allows people do to a lot of research and have several different articles from both sides of a position. The site is easily broken down into sections so one can find the argument they are discussing quite easily. If there is one complaint I have to the site is that it has a limited usability for people. It works as well as the mission books that are contained at the library, where they are used for a couple of months each year as a new group of fourth graders are doing their missiong project, and then they are neglected for the other nine months. However, as it is something that comes up frequently in school projects, it is a very useful site overall for the library to be providing to the kids who need this information.
Annotation - Should we maintain the illegality of Marijuana, as the drug can do irreperable harm to teens and others, causing them to withdraw from the community; or should we regulate the drug, making sure that a clean product free of poisons is put out on the market and tax it thereby creating a new source of revenue for people and governments? Find this and many other things to debate in the Gale Opposing Viewpoints database.
About the Cite - Gale, the company that does the development of the site considers itself to be among the premeir webdesigners when it comes to creating e-resources for libraries and schools. The company maintains more than 600 databases online for libraries and schools to use on a variety of different topics. Some of their more famous databases include Primary Source Media and Macmillan Reference USA.
Genre -
Database
Curriculum Ties -
Review the site in advanace of Juniors and Seniors writing position papers in school.
Booktalking ideas -
N/A
Reading Level -
Grade 9 +
Challenge Issues -
None
Why Included -
I wanted to include a database that was offered at the Library System that I worked for.
website - http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/?userGroupName=orange_main
Content - Linked to the OC Public Libraries Website, Opposing Viewpoints contains arguments on all the latest social issues of the day from both sides of the issue. As many teens have to develp viewpoints papers in high school, this makes Viewpoints a very useful tool for teens to be able to develop an argument on any given topic. One such issue is Animal rights. Many people today are arguing whether animals should be given the same protections as people. They summarize the arguments at the link to each debate. In this instance they present one side of the argument that states that all animals are part of the same evolutionary chain. The other side of the argument is that animals certainly lack some of the spirit, mental abilities and other qualities of humans. Therefore animals should be able to be used in some circumstances that people should not. The site then presents several differnt articles that present in an intellectual argument, their side of the issue. The site contains almost all of the major debates of the day, from arguments about the death penalty, to abortion, to marijuana legalization.
Cite Review - The content of the site is amazing for finding stuff for papers, especially position papers that are frequently given to high school juniors. It allows people do to a lot of research and have several different articles from both sides of a position. The site is easily broken down into sections so one can find the argument they are discussing quite easily. If there is one complaint I have to the site is that it has a limited usability for people. It works as well as the mission books that are contained at the library, where they are used for a couple of months each year as a new group of fourth graders are doing their missiong project, and then they are neglected for the other nine months. However, as it is something that comes up frequently in school projects, it is a very useful site overall for the library to be providing to the kids who need this information.
Annotation - Should we maintain the illegality of Marijuana, as the drug can do irreperable harm to teens and others, causing them to withdraw from the community; or should we regulate the drug, making sure that a clean product free of poisons is put out on the market and tax it thereby creating a new source of revenue for people and governments? Find this and many other things to debate in the Gale Opposing Viewpoints database.
About the Cite - Gale, the company that does the development of the site considers itself to be among the premeir webdesigners when it comes to creating e-resources for libraries and schools. The company maintains more than 600 databases online for libraries and schools to use on a variety of different topics. Some of their more famous databases include Primary Source Media and Macmillan Reference USA.
Genre -
Database
Curriculum Ties -
Review the site in advanace of Juniors and Seniors writing position papers in school.
Booktalking ideas -
N/A
Reading Level -
Grade 9 +
Challenge Issues -
None
Why Included -
I wanted to include a database that was offered at the Library System that I worked for.
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