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How To Use HISD Online Resources: Click on the icons below to access the resources from school or home. Most resources require no logins at school but all resources require logins from home. Contact your librarian for a handout containing logins and passwords for home use. Contact Deborah Hall for home access information or training on using these resources. New passwords are now in effect for 2009-2010. Contact your librarian or Deborah Hall for an update.
ABC-Clio Schools provides resources for research in American History, World Geography, and World History including articles, primary resources, and maps, all correlated with the curriculum. For online training, click here.
Britannica provides access to encyclopedias on elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Other available resources include a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionary, and workspace to take notes on your research. In the elementary encyclopedia there is an activity section for younger students in the Britannica Learning Zone. On the additional databases links are provided for a Spanish language encyclopedia, the Webster's Third International Dictionary, and other valuable resources.
Discovery Education is a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education. Educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos- including more than 1,000 new videos in subject areas including foreign language, secondary math, science, and language arts. This resource requires a unique login for each user. You may obtain a login kit from your librarian or your tech coordinator.
Nettrekker organizes web sites around the K–12 curricula. All sites are evaluated for academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Users can search by grade level, subject directory, keyword, famous person, etc. Nettrekker categorizes web sites by type: lesson plans, images, learning exercises, games, pictures, or maps and charts. Special content is provided for ELL learners. Resources are aligned with the state standards. For online training, click here.
Proquest provides access to 4 products: E-Curriculum Library, History Study Center, Proquest:Literature, and Historical Newspapers. E-Curriculum Library provides answers from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and audio/video content. For online training on E-Curriculum Library, click here. Historical Newspapers offers a unique collection of primary source historical documents featuring back issues of the New York Times. For online training on Historical Newspapers, click here.
Teaching Books makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. For online training, click here.
Thompson Gale provides access to 3 products: Literature Resource Center, Student Resource Center Gold and Testing and Education Reference Center. Literature Resource Center provides students with access to traditional literary reference works, critical information on authors and their works, and current journal articles. For online training, click here. Student Reference Center Gold provides biographies, essays, full-text magazines, glossaries, historical overviews, photographs, audio files to answer research needs. For online training, click here. Testing & Education Reference Center helps users prepare for higher education and the working world by providing access to information on colleges and universities, majors, careers, and testing. It also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. For online training, click here.
Turnitin provides services for High School teachers concerned with academic integrity of student work. The primary focus of this service is to prevent plagiarism. This online service allows teacher to check to see that students are writing their own assignments. To obtain School ID#, password, and usage information, contact Deborah Hall. For online training, click here.
Wilson Web provides professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to education. For online training, click here.