Social Justice Issues

Social Justic Issues: Media and Oral Communication Assignment - Gerig, Darsaut

Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College 

Databases

• • Teen Health & Wellness 

    • The critically acclaimed, award-winning resource Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support, aligned to state, national, and provincial standards. Topics include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.

  • Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale) 

    • Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.

  • Canada In Context 

    • Canada in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content, written from a Canadian perspective, with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

  • SIRS® Issues Researcher (Proquest)

SIRS® Issues Researcher offers selected article from more than 2000 international sources. Its editorially created content includes analysis and opinions which cover the pros and cons of more than 345 social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. 

• • Student Edition (Gale) Grades 9 - 12 

    • With over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Encyclopedias

• • Encyclopaedia Britannica High

  • Salem Press Encyclopedias (password required) 

    • social justice versus "social justice"

    • Health

      • Genetics & Inherited Conditions

      • Psychology and Mental Health

      • Adolescent Health & Wellness

      • Salem Health: Cancer

      • Salem Health: Nutrition

      • Salem Health: Community & Family Health Issues

  • Science

    • Encyclopedia of Global Warming

  • History

    • Civil Disobedience, Social Justice, Nationalism & Populism, Violent Demonstrations and Race Relations

  • Social Science

    • Countries, Peoples & Cultures

Print

• • Oakridge Catalogue

Presentation Tools

• • PowToon - Use gotvdsb account to login

    • PowToon Basics

  • TouchCast 

    • Making Your First TouchCast (4:00)

    • TouchCast Guide (16 pages)

    • Best Practices

    • TouchCast Guide

  • Beyond PowerPoint & Keynote: The 20 Best Presentation Apps 

    • SlideDog for mixing in multimedia and live-sharing

    • Poll Everywhere

    • Kahoot!

      • Play Kahoot!