Lesson 10: Wrap Up

It has been worth my time to explore the online resources that are offered through the South Dakota State Library. There are many valuable resources in this collection. I have already used the World Book for Kids and Students with my students. They have also used SIRS website as well. This past week they have been presenting their PowerPoints they built using these three sites as their primary sources. I have seen a lot of great student work.

The two new sites that stood out were ebooks and WorldCat they are excellent professional resources. I was really surprised by the search capabilities of World Cat. I’m still waiting for my interlibrary loan. Mango Languages was another surprise. The ability to learn just about any of the worlds languages online is a wonderful resource.

I have already begun to spread the word to my staff. I have given out the links with the school passwords. At the moment it is word of mouth. I would like to conduct a training session with the staff to demonstrate some of these resources. Many times just sending out an email pointing out great resources is not effective. Teachers are very busy and taking the time to explore online resource without some guidance is hard. Hopefully there will be time after spring testing and before the school year over.

Thank you for putting this together it has been worth my time to explore these resources.