Using the Library Database as a Resource & Easiteach Tips & Tricks #6: Making Tutorials

I recently found out that if you have a library card you can use the database at your local library. This means you have access to tons and tons of academic journals and magazines online for all your learning and research needs. This works for those of you researching for fun or trying to get your masters/PhD, but guess what? This also works for those of you wanting to teach your students better researching skills; especially if you want them to be COLLEGE READY. The best part, IT CAN BE ACCESSED ONLINE, you don't even have to go to the library.

Here is where you go (for those of you in San Antonio), mysapl.org and click on database:

Next you will see the advanced search boxes. Scroll down and you will see the journals it may browse through. You are free to browse the individual journals yourself, or you may use the advanced search and click on the journals you wish it to search through. A tip the librarian gave me was that when you select the "select all" option it does not actually look through every journal because some of the journals become incompatible with each other during the search process. She recommended that you only choose 2 or 3 at a time. Here is what you will see when you click on the data base tab into the advanced search:

I hope this helps your in class and out of class needs. If you wish to learn how I made the images on Easiteach here is the tutorial:

Easiteach Tips and Tricks #5: How to Make a Slide Answer a Question Audibly

This is a fun trick and kids eat it up! Be sure to try this. For fun, I added a second trick for todays post, because after this one you should have the hang of the utilities link.
Free Tip #1: Make a slide audibly answer a question.



Free Tip #2: Linking URLs to jump to from your slideshow.

Great Quotes, Great Creativity: Dr Wirth's Blog

Dr Wirth has a new blog, which is similar to the old blog but with a different URL. I have updated the URL on my blog and you can find it on the right. Among the many posts and quotes on his blog I have become attached to a few; see if they strike you:

“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
- Ignacio Estrada


"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
— Dr. Linus Pauling

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."
— Thomas Edison

"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
— Theodore Levitt


"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
- Mark Twain

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein




here is the site all should begin following:
http://pedagoda.blogspot.com/

Easiteach Tips and Tricks #4: Normal, Glass, Storyboard, Split Mode

Here is a really neat trick for presentations and for snagging stuff off the internet to add into your presentations. It is also great because it will help you rearrange the order of your slides. Hope this helps!

Easiteach Tips and Tricks #3: Animating Slides

Now to the good stuff! How to animate your slides and get the students even more engaged. Share any comments, questions and problems. Cheers!

Easiteach Tips and Tricks #2: Beginner Lesson Two

A few more beginning tips and button descriptions. Email or comment any questions or problems you may have. If you want this video to be enlarged you can click on a button at the bottom right and it should take you to youtube or enlarge from where you are. Enjoy!

Easiteach Tips and Tricks #1: Starting at Square One

Hope this video tutorial helps. Be sure to comment any questions or email them to me.