Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Library Showcase


Monday, May 05, 2008

My first (sucessful) Custom Google search!

Last week one of our General Science classes was to do an assignment on Acid Rain. The Special Ed teacher, Danielle Hurd, thoughtfully emailed me the assignment and a page of weblinks she wanted the students to use. Because of the structure of the assignment, the level of the class, and the targeted selection of websites, it occurred to me that this might be exactly the task that Google Custom Search was designed for.

So...I went to Google, selected More, and Even more, which brings you to this window


I logged in to my Google account, spent a few minutes copying and pasting url's and -- voila! - a custom Acid Rain search engine! Give it a try ...
Acid Rain - Groff/Hurd

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Free documentaries -- really!

Mrs. Brice-Hyde, one of our Social Studies teachers, told me today about the website http://www.freedocumentaries.org/. On it you can view (full screen!) any of about 90 full length documentaries. The list includes Merchants of Cool, Bowling for Columbine, and SICKO. As you can see the dominant themes are social and political.

The films cannot be downloaded, and I suspect that viewing them uses quite a bit of bandwidth, but nevertheless these are awesome resources.
The site logo says "Beta", so I'm not sure whether this is a long term option, but it is certainly a great place for teachers to preview these programs. Let me know if you see something we should be adding to our DVD collection.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Is cursive an obsolete skill?




Funny, but with a fillip of nostalgia http://obsoleteskills.wikispot.org/Skills.
I added a heading for Looking up books using a card catalog, but don't have time to do the stub right now.

Friday, February 08, 2008

A Vision of K-12 Students Today


Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Impact of Governor's $5 million cut in Library Aid


IMPACT OF PROPOSED 2008-09 EXECUTIVE BUDGET ON LIBRARY SERVICES IN OUR AREA

Public Library System
Southern Tier
$1,544,756 2007 - 2008 budget
$87,344 2008 - 2009 cut


BOCES/School Library Systems
GST
$232,070 2007 - 2008 budget
$35,049 2008 - 2009 cut


Library Council
SCRLC
$419,724 2007 - 2008 budget
$47,772 2008 - 2009 cut

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The HHS library now subscribes to the OED Online!

The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words.
http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl

For example: ( N. B.This could be very helpful in a Scrabble game! )

QALY, n. DRAFT ENTRY Dec. 2007
Brit. /kwli/, U.S. /kwli/ [Acronym < name="50291881def1">
A quality-adjusted life year; a unit used, esp. in cost-benefit analysis, in the prediction of both quality and duration of life after medical or surgical treatment.
1976 R. ZECKHAUSER & D. S. SHEPARD in Law & Contemp. Probl. 40 11 We shall employ a hypothetical utility function in our analyses. The unit of output will be quality-adjusted life years, to be referred to by the acronym QALY. 1989 V. R. GODWIN in M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. ix. 278 Recent findings indicate that the cost of a QALY of hemodialysis in a hospital is fourteen times that of a coronary artery by-pass graft. 2005 Health & Med. Week (Nexis) 14 Mar. 1219 A threshold of cost-effectiveness of approximately $45,000/QALY gained was used.


Entry printed from Oxford English Dictionary Online Copyright © Oxford University Press 2008




Additional Literary Criticism Added


Also, our Literature window now has a link to

Bloom's Literary Reference Online, a vast collection of critical volumes, focusing on the writers and works most often studied in high schools and universities.




and more...


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