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ROAR!
Revisiting Our Available Resources
Revisiting Our Available Resources
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To learn more about all the resources available through your school library, talk to your school librarian, check out your school library website from the Home tab, or browse the Media Library, Sora, and Databases tabs above.
Local, U.S., and International Newspapers
Available Through Your School Library
Online, full-text versions of major newspapers are available through the school libraries in every St. Lawrence-Lewis school district. Go to your library's SEARCH Database page and follow the directions below to access each newspaper. See your school librarian for more information or to incorporate media literacy into your lessons using these resources!
Watertown Daily Times
Click on the "Watertown Daily Times via Newsbank" link on your library's SEARCH Database page.
Major U.S. and International Newspapers available via ProQuest
Click on the "ProQuest" link on your library's SEARCH Database page. Click on "Publications" at the top of the ProQuest main page, then search for the name of the newspaper you would like to access. Choose the edition (look closely, there are often several!) and click on the title to access the most recent articles or browse by issue. Tip: Links to these landing pages can be copied and shared with students via email or password protected sites like Google Classroom.
New York Times
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
The Guardian
The Christian Science Monitor
and more!
Also check out AllSides.com and the Interactive Media Bias Chart to help your students understand reliability and detect bias.
March 2021
Digital Citizenship 101: Finding and Using Copyright-Free Images
"Try this: Do an image search in Google for something your students often need for a project. Now limit the results to show only those labeled for reuse (under the Tools menu). Did the best pictures just disappear?
This is an excellent opportunity to talk about the rights and responsibilities of being a good digital citizen, one aspect of which calls for respecting copyright. But besides teaching your students how to filter Google image results for those that are copyright-free, you have other options for finding high-quality pictures. They are just as easy to use as Google and designed to automatically protect a creator’s copyright."
From Monroe 2 School Library System's 11/27/18 ROAR, "A Thousand Words"
Pixabay - Search thousands of high quality photos (like the tree, above) that will make projects look professional, as well as short video clips and clipart.
Open Clip Art - An easy-to-search collection of over 150,000 clipart illustrations.
Unsplash - Similar to Pixabay's photos, but the refinement options let you easily choose main colors and photo orientation, or limit further by subtopic.
PBS LearningMedia & Learn360 - Accessible using the student SNAP login (ask your librarian), these streaming video platforms also provide images and graphics on the curriculum topics your students are searching for.
Library Databases - A quick search in most library databases, like Middle School in Context, Britannica School, or Academic OneFile can be refined to find not only images, but also videos and audio files as well.
December 2020
Digital Class Sets Available in Sora
There are currently over 400 class sets available in Sora that can be assigned to students at any time using the Title Assignment Request form. If you don't see what you need, place a purchase request! Class sets can often be purchased as short term loans that are assigned to students for a set amount of time, such as two or three months.
See the Sora tab above for more information.
Please note however, that not every title is available as a digital class set, or even as an ebook. Your school librarian and the School Library System are happy to work with you to figure out how to best meet your need.
December 2020
Twentieth Century Turning Points in U.S. History
This eight-part series, available from the BOCES Media Library, is designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that distinguished the 20th century at pivotal points in history.
A similar set, 21st Century Turning Points in U.S. History (SNAP #062379), examines the most significant events in America between 2000 -2009.
November 2020
The latest addition to this site includes 21,206 issues of the Watertown Daily Times from its earliest days in 1870 through the end of 1922 (what copyright law allows into the public domain). The specific titles and date ranges include:
Watertown Daily Times May 26, 1870 through December 31, 1889 (4,864 issues)
Watertown Times January 5, 1870 through October 19, 1894 (8,220 issues)
Watertown Daily Times October 20, 1894 through December 31,1922 (8,122 issues)
November 2020
A Research-Ready Database for Grades 6-12
Created specifically for middle school students, this database combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, and literature.
This resource can be found on your library's SEARCH Database page and is available to all schools through the NovelNY program.
November 2020
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