National Archives Digital Vault

The National Archives has created the Digital Vault website, which is conceptually fun but not entirely function in my opinion. They've taken they're digital content and tried to create what sort of look like mind maps linking related content together, but the keywords associated with the documents are not terribly accurate, it's a memory intensive site that loads kind of slowly, and the search mechanism isn't so great for getting to something you really need. Still, it's fun to play with and might be a tool to use for students who are looking for 19th century and later primary souces. http://www.digitalvaults.org/ 

 

Google Search Education

This is very interesting! Google has a whole page dedicated to search education tools - i.e. lesson plans geared towards teaching people how to use Google. While it's necessarily a bit Google-promoting, some of it could be pretty useful. It's primarily geared towards k-12, but some of the lessons could certainly be used with our lower level students who haven't had as much exposure to web-searching. The video "How Google Works" is also pretty good, except for the second half which is a bit propoganda-ish. But the beginning information about how Google indexes the web is a nice explanation.





 

Computer Literacy class software

We have the Go! with Microsoft Office 2010 software available as a course reserve.  It includes the Student Resource CDs that they need to complete their homework.  The call # is  HF5548.4.M525 G6254 2013 -- (there are three spiral bound volumes behind circ.)

OWL at Purdue Citation chart

I just stumbled upon this -- and it is searchable!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20110928111055_949.pdf

To find NCTM Journal articles

This post is for students looking for articles from the journals of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. NCTM publishes five different journals. The library has electronic access to four of them.

Click the title of a journal below to access that journal in a library database. Use the instructions under each link to find full-text articles from that journal.


Teaching Children Mathematics
Instructions: The library only has full-text articles from October, 2003 and earlier. Scroll down the page and click the plus sign next to 2000-2009. Click the plus sign next to 2003 or an earlier year. Click the link for an issue from that year. A list of the articles published in that issue will appear. Click the full-text link for the article you would like to use.

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Instructions: The library only has full-text articles from October, 2003 and earlier. Scroll down the page and click the plus sign next to 2000-2009. Click the plus sign next to 2003 or an earlier year. Click the link for an issue from that year. A list of the articles published in that issue will appear. Click the full-text link for the article you would like to use.

Mathematics Teacher
Instructions: The library only has full-text articles from October, 2003 and earlier. Scroll down the page and click the plus sign next to 2000-2009. Click the plus sign next to 2003 or an earlier year. Click the link for an issue from that year. A list of the articles published in that issue will appear. Click the full-text link for the article you would like to use.

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Instructions: The library only has full-text articles from October, 2003 and earlier. Scroll down the page and click the plus sign next to 2000-2009. Click the plus sign next to 2003 or an earlier year. Click the link for an issue from that year. A list of the articles published in that issue will appear. Click the full-text link for the article you would like to use.

If you have questions, contact a reference librarian at reference@raritanval.edu or 908-218-8865.