December 28, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
http://ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx
Produced by by Makepeace Productions in partnership with Cultural Survival and Interactive Knowledge with funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the website Our Mother Tongues provides interesting information about American’s native languages including:
- LANGUAGE MAP: Explore Native American language programs from Alaska to North Carolina.
- VOICES: Meet heroic American Indian first-language speakers and teachers, and hear from dedicated second-language learners.
- SEND ePOSTCARD: Send an e-greeting in a Native American language to entertain friends and raise awareness about America’s indigenous languages and the people striving to save them.
- VIDEO CLIPS: View additional footage from We Still Live Here; learn about cultural clues embedded in languages, and hear from American Indian leaders about the importance of learning
one’s mother tongue.
- BLOG: Read stories and share your own.
December 21, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Education Index Retrospective provides an index to more than half a century of articles from an international range of over 500 English-language periodicals. This database provides extensive historical coverage of the literature in education and will be helpful to anyone doing historical research or looking at theories that were prominent in the 20s and 30s such as those of Maria Montessori or John Dewey.
Find the link to this database on the Education Subject Guide:
If you need any help with this or other library databases please contact the Education subject librarian Rachel Wadham: Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu
December 14, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Wonders of the world by Philip Steele. New York: Kingfisher 2011. Call number 930 St32w 2011
From the ancient to the modern this book uncovers the world’s greatest marvels from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Nurse, soldier, spy: the story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero by Marissa Moss illustrated by John Hendrix. New York: Abrams Books, 2011. Call number 923.5 Ed57m 2011
At age nineteen Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to fight in the civil war where she distinguished herself by services as a nurse and a spy.
Bugs A to Z by Caroline Lawton. New York: Scholastic, 2011. Call number 411 L448b 2011
Chocked full of creepy crawly bug facts all organized from A to Z
How they croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous by Georgia Bragg. New York: Walker & Company, 2011. Call number 920 B725h 2011
Revealing the messy details of how nineteen famous men and women died.
December 7, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
We are pleased to announce that through one of our consortia, CCLA, we have acquired system-wide access to the Alexander Street Press’ “Filmakers Library Online.”
Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 941 titles, equaling approximately 746 hours.
You can find it on the library databases A-Z list, or the direct url is: http://dbs.lib.byu.edu/film
November 30, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print (EBSCO) provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Providing information for the complete evaluation of tests in the disciplines of psychology, education, business and leadership this database helps users to make knowable judgments and informed selection decisions. This database will be useful to graduate students and faculty looking for testing instruments to use in their research.
Find the link to this database on the Tests and Evaluation Measures Tab of the Education Subject Guide:
http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=38325&sid=446151
If you need any help with this or other library databases please contact the Education subject librarian Rachel Wadham: Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu
November 23, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
What is an RSS feed?:
Life is busy, and we all have a great deal to keep up with everyday. A useful way to keep up to date with newly posted information on this or any other blog is to set-up RSS feeds. (RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.”) You can “sign-up” for blogs to send you RSS feeds. Though your RSS reader or email account you will be notified of new posts to the blog without having to check the blog regularly.
How to set-up an RSS feed:
To set-up an RSS feeds, just a follow these steps:
- Find the RSS symbol at the top of bottom of the blog page and click on it. It looks like this:
- From there, you will be taken to a page that will ask you were you would like to establish this feed (i.e. Live Bookmarks, Bloglines, My Yahoo, or Google). Click on one of the options from the drop-down menu and answer the one or two preference questions that follow.
- Your feed will then be set-up to send you short summaries of information when an update is made to the blog.
November 16, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Today is “Have a Party With Your Bear Day” – so if you are going to party why not read a good book. Here are some new juvenile books that any bear would enjoy for a read aloud at their party.
Bedtime for Bear by Brett Helquist. New York : Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. Call number 813 H36911bed
Bug and Bear by Ann Bonwill. New York : Marshall Cavendish Corp., 2011. Call number: 813 B6442011buga 2011
Maudie and Bear by Jan Ormerod. Prahan, Vic. : Little Hare Books, 2011. Call number: 823 Or5mb 2011
Bear & Chook By the Sea by Lisa Shanahan. Melbourne : Lothian Children’s Books/HachetteAustralia Pty Ltd, 2010. Call number: 823 Sh184222bea 2010.
Moon bear by Breanda Z. Guiberson. New York: Holt, 2010. Call number: 599.78 G94m 2010
November 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
ebrary, a major distributor of eBooks, recently announced that they have added new e-books to their open access collection on cyberbullying. This collection, which is subsidized by ebrary, now includes over 100 titles, that will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern.
Newly added titles include Cyberbullying: Activities to Help Children and Teens to Stay Safe in a Texting, Twittering, Social Networking World, by Vanessa Rogers (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010) and Banishing Bullying Behavior: Exploring the Culture of Pain, Rage and Revenge, by Suellen Fried and Blanche E. Sosland (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010).
Visit the site here: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/cyberbullying/home.action
You may also register for the site to help them better understand its usefulness by clicking here: http://www.tfaforms.com/216765
November 3, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Check out these new books in the HBLL dealing with the challenges faced by English Language Learners in the current school environment:
Strategic attention in language testing: metacognition in a yes/no business English vocabulary test by Dieter Thoma. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2011. Call number: PE 1114 .T49 2011
Teaching English in multilingual contexts: current challenges, future directions. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011. Call number: PE 1128 .A2 T433x 2011
Overtested: how high-stakes accountability fails English language learners by Jessica Zacher Pandva. New York : Teachers College Press, 2011. Call number: PE 1128 .A2 P287 2011
October 26, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
DAWCL is a free website that contains almost 8,000 award-winning, English language titles that have each received one of seventy-nine awards presented in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, or Ireland. Most entries have summaries, and all can be searched for by reader’s age, setting, historical period, keyword, format, genre, gender of protagonist, award, year of publication, and more. Intended for use by teachers and librarians, this database is also helpful for parents and students who are searching for quality juvenile literature.
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