Discovery Exercise:
Create a blog posting discussing the following questions and other observations you have about World Book School Edition.
1. Using World Book Kids, search for information on a mammal of your choice. Find a picture and information about its habitat.
This would work very well for the young children. I think that they would enjoy the great photographs and short articles.
2. Using World Book Student, search for information on the same mammal you searched in World Book Kids and compare the amount of information.
There is a lot more information here. I felt that the aardvark photo wasn't as good as the Kids edition.
3. Using World Book Advanced, search for a country. Notice the types of information available on the left and right side bars of the first results screen. Click on the link for your desired country, and again notice the types of information on the left and right side bars of the screen. What types of information will be most valuable to your patrons?
The maps would be very helpful to my students. The information would be too difficult for some of my fifth grade students, though. I only have K-5 students.
4. Using World Book Discover, use the browse function on the right side of the screen to find an article about American government. Notice the features on the article page. How will World Book Discover help your patrons who are not good readers of English? I like the double click dictionary. I do not like the computer reading voice, though. I think it would make ELLs have a harder time understanding the information.
Discovery ExerciseCreate a blog posting discussing the following questions and other observations you have about World Book Foreign Language Edition.
1. Check out the visual dictionary in either language and look for an animal. Discuss how this could be used in your library.
I used dog and got two articles, one was Elvis Presley and the other appeared to be an article about English as a second language in school. Then I used dogs with no better luck. I cut and pasted the word astronaut from the first article so that it was written in Spanish. This produced several articles about people who were astronauts.
2. In the Spanish language encyclopedia, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, look up an article and listen to it being read aloud. How could this feature be useful for your library?
This was much easier to understand than the English version in the other World Book editions, even though I don't speak English. This could possibly be used in our Spanish Club after school but the children don't know enough Spanish words yet.
