Don’t miss the next two webcast chats on state subscription databases hosted by TeachersTeachingTeachers on the EdTechTalk channel. They’re coming up over the next two Wednesday nights at 9:00 PM Eastern time. Last night the TTT folks hosted representatives from Georgia’s Gallileo, New York’s NOVEL, Maine’s MARVEL!, and Florida’s FEL. Catch up with my SLJ post on the first chat (which I got to pretty late) and the things that keep me up at night. Thanks TTT for focusing on this important educational topic!
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Webcasts on Subscription Databases
August 10, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Joyce, I will try to be listening at the next Wed (8/22) chat. I agree that it does seem like an uphill battle getting the students to use the good stuff in the databases. I also think many times it is the teachers that need to be converted and we have been able to convert many of the teachers at Abington, but not all. Dawn and I take every opportunity when teachers come to us to plan lessons to show them the richness of our databases, such as the primary source articles in Proquest, Abc-Clio and Gale. Or even in just passing conversations, we talk to teachers in emails, in classes or with their students, it is an ongoing push to educate, educate, educate about the the greatness of databases. Since the district pays so much for the databases, we need to to consistently show the students and teachers how easy and rewarding it is to get the rich good stuff.
Joyce, my concern (don’t think I can make the chat - will be archived?) is how to teach them how to use the databases. Right now, they’re the best resources my school has: I worry that they’ll just go to Google and/or Wikipedia since we don’t have any books.
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