Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Still on the challenge

Well, I am getting back to blogging. Due to technical difficulities with technology, it has been too long getting back to this. The IT support person, me, hooked up the new router, wifi printer, and laptop at the library and encountered problems-I could not get the static IP address to work! The Internet would work but when I went to the SD Library page and tried to use World Book...nothing unless I had a card. After two weeks of redong the router and calling two 1-800 numbers I have everything hooked up correctly! Another day goes by and I can now play with the electronic resosurces and blog.
World Book Online Kids, Info Center, and Reference Center are a fun site after I played around with the different windows. Info center gives more details than Kids but all good. The Reference center led me to Canada. I found the center panel is the most helpfun unless I want lots of details. Patrons can navigate easily on all the World Book Centers.
The World Book School Edition seems to be the same as the public edition info (ie. kangaroo). Canada info had even more on the left side bar for research. The Discover goes to American Government and has good articles. A foriegn exchange student who is having difficulty understanding a subject can change the text to their language and really understand it.
World Book Forign language is great. I looked up squirrel on the French page by the picture, could not read a word but I had the info. The Spanish page brought up squirrel and I listened to the narration. Having the linese highlighted made it easy to follow along and I could even understand some of the words-I hear Spanish more than French. School language students need this. Once again, exchange students can also find this useful.

1 comment:

Jane Heitman Healy said...

Your library is lucky to have you to work out those nasty IT problems! Glad you got back on track with it all, Deb. Thanks for sharing your World Book discoveries. We think World Book has something for all ages!