Reading and Grammar Apps

Reading and grammar apps for early learners.

World Atlas App

We'll be loading this on the iPad on Tuesday.  Stop by and test it out.

Barefoot World Atlas App

ECE class and iPad Apps

Visiting Heidi Broad-Smith's class on Tuesday to highlight some children's apps on the iPad.

Here are a few links that may be of interest to the students in the program:


Do iPads raise literacy scores?

American families see tablets as playmate/teacher/babysitter

Kids/ebooks/future digital learning

iPads in classroom boost test scores

Babies with iPads

Google Search Changes

Google search changes.

Apps for Children on the iPad

The library has loaded many children's apps on the iPads for loan.   The following links may be useful to the students in NMCC's Early Childhood Education program.  Stop by and use the apps and see whether or not you think they increase literacy, heighten learning, and will a great way for children to learn.  If you have an app you would like to try, let us know and the library will purchase it.

iPads in Kindergarten  -  Will it help improve test scores and literacy?

Kids and ebooks: The future of digital learning

Great photos of babies/children and iPads

iPad apps according to Bloom's taxonomy

Edutopia:  Apps in the elementary classroom

Nielsen: American families see tablets as playmate, teacher, babysitter

Google Tips and Search Secrets

Well, maybe they aren't so secret.   See if you know and use any of these Google tips.

10 Google Search Secrets

LibGuides for NMCC Library

We just started creating LibGuides for our library to make it easier to locate information.

We'll be working on additional guides by subjects.   Look for updates soon.

Check out our first guide on e-books and tell us what you think.

How do you cite a Tweet?

If you come across something you want to cite and need help, contact the library.

We recently helped with questions about citing tweets and mobile apps.

So, how do you cite a tweet?   See this post from Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic.

How to cite a mobile app

In Noodlebib, use the software drop down and enter the information you have about the app.

This applies to MLA and APA formats.

Here is an example.

Assessing online information

For the students in Jen Graham's class.  View the sites below and discuss why they are or are not reliable sources of information. 

How do you evaluate a source based on currency, reliability, authority, and purpose/point of view?  Read this.

Your topic is:   Genetically Modified Foods.

View the 3 sites below:

World Health Organization

Monsanto

Center for Food Safety

On a scale of 1 - 10  (low to high), how credible did you find the information on each of the sites?

What makes one site more or less credible than the other?

If someone asked you for information on this topic, which site would you send them to?

Can you locate another site that you would prefer to share with someone who needed information on this topic?

Try this with another topic like Bisphenol-A (BPA).

Huffington Post

Fox News

Tox Town

EPA

Endocrine Disruption

Google's new privacy policy

Beginning March 1st Google has a new privacy policy.  Take a minute to read this and see what you need to know.

Then do you own online search and find articles and posts that give me more information about this topic.

Do you think this will have an impact on you or are you too busy to worry about it?