Lesson 7 -- EBooks on EbscoHost (formerly NetLibrary)

Lesson 7 -- EBooks on EbscoHost (formerly NetLibrary)

Basic Discovery Exercise:

Part 1- Basic Search:

The topic I did my search on was “Multimedia Systems in Education” and I came up with 57 search results. I then change the search filter from relevance to newest. The newest results were publication from 2005. In the area of technology and digital education this is on the edge of being out dated materials. I took a look at The Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking. The chapter on “Content Repurposing for Small Devices” turns out to be one of the shortest chapters in the book. It gave only the barest discussions of small hand held devices. There wasn’t any reference to tablets. The technology type books are going to be a little bit dated and viewer is just going to have to be rather selective.

Constitution Day:

When I looked up “Constitution Day” I came up with 38 results. The books I would recommend for further investigation would be The Bill of Rights by By: Kramarae, Cheris; Spender, Dale: The Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts by Robert L. Maddex: and maybe the The Reader’s Companion to American History just to get background knowledge about the development of the American constitution.

Western History:

Once I put the search term of Nebraska in I came up with 88 results. Going through the selection I saw that all of them were published by the University of Nebraska. The selection covered a range of topics. Many of them were related to Native American studies. I suspect that many of these selections were written by University professors.

Part 2- Common Core Connections

CC.11.RI.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.

In my investigation I found that there was a few books for younger students. Many of the books for young students were in Spanish which would be nice for ESL students. Majority of the e-books are aimed at high-school and above. The assignment I could envision assigning high school students would to pick a topic like the civil war and find at least two books and compare and contrast a key Civil War figure depicted in the book.

Students would quickly begin to understand that researchers interpret history in different ways. That the body of evidence is key to how judging the authors views. An extension of this assignment would be to take these same books and compare them to a high school textbook on the same subject.