On LM_NET this post noted - "A colleague of mine heard about a vocabulary site where you can practice your word knowledge.
For every vocabulary word you get correct they donate rice to the world! Relive your S.A.T. nightmares or pass them on to your son/daughter.
It is the season of giving! http://www.freerice.com/index.php"
Feed your mind while the sponsors feed someones body!
About FreeRice
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.
FreeRice has two goals:
- Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life.
It is a great investment in yourself.
Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide.
Thank you.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Insurance
Everyone who buys insurance is a gambler. We gamble we'll have something happen (so we collect the money), the insurance companies gamble we won't have something happen (so they keep the money)!
Scrolling through the economics links in GALILEO, I came across The Insurance Periodicals Index (IPI).
GALILEO's description notes IPI was produced by the NILS Publishing Co., Inc. in cooperation with the Insurance & Employee Benefits Division (IEBD) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). IPI indexes and abstracts over 200 insurance industry journals and magazines. Coverage extends from 1965 to the present and features a controlled vocabulary of index terms that reflects current insurance industry terminology. IPI will interest researchers in economics, social scientists, and insurance and government organizations.
It's an Ebsco database that does not have a publications list but it does have a Cited References option.
Type in "drought" to see what the insurance industry is saying.
You get the password to access GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian.
Scrolling through the economics links in GALILEO, I came across The Insurance Periodicals Index (IPI).
GALILEO's description notes IPI was produced by the NILS Publishing Co., Inc. in cooperation with the Insurance & Employee Benefits Division (IEBD) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). IPI indexes and abstracts over 200 insurance industry journals and magazines. Coverage extends from 1965 to the present and features a controlled vocabulary of index terms that reflects current insurance industry terminology. IPI will interest researchers in economics, social scientists, and insurance and government organizations.
It's an Ebsco database that does not have a publications list but it does have a Cited References option.
Type in "drought" to see what the insurance industry is saying.
You get the password to access GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
What else can we find
WorldCat.org has linked names in the database. This helps us quickly and easily find other items with/by/about that person.
In the e-mail to librarians WorldCat offers the example of a search for Star Wars, Episode IV - notice all the links. You can click on George Lucas or Carrie Fisher, a list of items is pulled up by/about/with that person.
After you select the title- scroll down a bit to see which library owns that item (and how far away they are from your computer).
Best of all for researchers who want to cite the title they used - there is a "Cite this Item" link which will pull up APA, MLA, etc citations for that particular title.
I can't wait to tell the research classes. What a wonderful tool for those who forget to write down all the publication details from a work they are using.
Technology is just amazing!
In the e-mail to librarians WorldCat offers the example of a search for Star Wars, Episode IV - notice all the links. You can click on George Lucas or Carrie Fisher, a list of items is pulled up by/about/with that person.
After you select the title- scroll down a bit to see which library owns that item (and how far away they are from your computer).
Best of all for researchers who want to cite the title they used - there is a "Cite this Item" link which will pull up APA, MLA, etc citations for that particular title.
I can't wait to tell the research classes. What a wonderful tool for those who forget to write down all the publication details from a work they are using.
Technology is just amazing!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Excuse me
Manners are the oil of civilization. Good manners keep people moving smoothly through every situation.
I continue inventory (slowly but surely)- I'm in the BJ's - and it seemed serendipitous to run across "Excuse Me, But I was Next : How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas" (BJ 1853 .P69 2006) by Peggy Post.
We are about to enter the frenzied social season with RSVPs, thank you notes, social chit chat, line cutters, etc facing us. How we respond to these stressful events sets us apart from the animal kingdom.
Hopefully, we will respond thoughtfully and with grace as mature human beings.
However if our first thought is to scream loudly and fall on the floor weeping at someones unmannerly approach to life, Ms. Post has quick and pithy suggestions on an appropriate response to an unbearable situation.
Refresh your memory on how best to react to the untoward - "Excuse me...."
I continue inventory (slowly but surely)- I'm in the BJ's - and it seemed serendipitous to run across "Excuse Me, But I was Next : How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas" (BJ 1853 .P69 2006) by Peggy Post.
We are about to enter the frenzied social season with RSVPs, thank you notes, social chit chat, line cutters, etc facing us. How we respond to these stressful events sets us apart from the animal kingdom.
Hopefully, we will respond thoughtfully and with grace as mature human beings.
However if our first thought is to scream loudly and fall on the floor weeping at someones unmannerly approach to life, Ms. Post has quick and pithy suggestions on an appropriate response to an unbearable situation.
Refresh your memory on how best to react to the untoward - "Excuse me...."
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
NDD
And what is NDD? Nature Deficit Disorder.
We're doing inventory and I ran across this title Last Child in the Woods (BF 353.5 .N37 L68 2005) by Richard Louv.
Two reviews in Amazon.com:
From Publishers WeeklyToday's kids are increasingly disconnected from the natural world, says child advocacy expert Louv (Childhood's Future; Fatherlove; etc.), even as research shows that "thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can... be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorder and other maladies." Instead of passing summer months hiking, swimming and telling stories around the campfire, children these days are more likely to attend computer camps or weight-loss camps: as a result, Louv says, they've come to think of nature as more of an abstraction than a reality....... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
and From Scientific AmericanUnstructured outdoor play was standard for me as a hyperactive child growing up in the rural Midwest. I fondly recall digging forts, climbing trees and catching frogs without concern for kidnappers or West Nile virus. According to newspaper columnist and child advocate Richard Louv, such carefree days are gone for America’s youth. Boys and girls now live a "denatured childhood," Louv writes in Last Child in the Woods. He cites multiple causes for why children spend less time outdoors and why they have less access to nature: our growing addiction to electronic media, the relinquishment of green spaces to development, parents’ exaggerated fears of natural and human predators, and the threat of lawsuits and vandalism that has prompted community officials to forbid access to their land. Drawing on personal experience and the perspectives of urban planners, educators, naturalists and psychologists, Louv links children’s alienation from nature to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, stress, depression and anxiety disorders, not to mention childhood obesity. ....Jeanne Hamming --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The time is nigh for days off from school- it's a great time to just "play" outside!
We're doing inventory and I ran across this title Last Child in the Woods (BF 353.5 .N37 L68 2005) by Richard Louv.
Two reviews in Amazon.com:
From Publishers WeeklyToday's kids are increasingly disconnected from the natural world, says child advocacy expert Louv (Childhood's Future; Fatherlove; etc.), even as research shows that "thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can... be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorder and other maladies." Instead of passing summer months hiking, swimming and telling stories around the campfire, children these days are more likely to attend computer camps or weight-loss camps: as a result, Louv says, they've come to think of nature as more of an abstraction than a reality....... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
and From Scientific AmericanUnstructured outdoor play was standard for me as a hyperactive child growing up in the rural Midwest. I fondly recall digging forts, climbing trees and catching frogs without concern for kidnappers or West Nile virus. According to newspaper columnist and child advocate Richard Louv, such carefree days are gone for America’s youth. Boys and girls now live a "denatured childhood," Louv writes in Last Child in the Woods. He cites multiple causes for why children spend less time outdoors and why they have less access to nature: our growing addiction to electronic media, the relinquishment of green spaces to development, parents’ exaggerated fears of natural and human predators, and the threat of lawsuits and vandalism that has prompted community officials to forbid access to their land. Drawing on personal experience and the perspectives of urban planners, educators, naturalists and psychologists, Louv links children’s alienation from nature to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, stress, depression and anxiety disorders, not to mention childhood obesity. ....Jeanne Hamming --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The time is nigh for days off from school- it's a great time to just "play" outside!
Pro and Con
Hot topics make for interesting research papers in beginning English classes. The passion on both sides of a subject allow a new researcher to find articles that are readable.
Where do you find authoritative articles and web sites? In GALILEO of course!
Two places quickly come to mind:TOPICsearch at Ebsco and SKS WebSelect.
TOPICsearch at Ebsco is a current events database covering social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics. The database contains full text for over 66,000 articles from more than 2,700 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. From the Advanced Search screen, users can select preselected current events and popular topics from drop-down menus.
The drop down lists of topics make it very easy to see what current articles are available.
SKS WebSelect is an online database of Internet resources providing access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. WebSelect is continually updated to include new sites and dynamically changing data. Summaries provide a concise overview of site content and authority. Keyword, Subject Heading, and Topic Browse searches can be performed. Topics are assigned based on site content and mission. WebSelect is dynamically updated and offers Internet resources from around the globe, including those of leading universities, government agencies and respected organizations.
I like how SKS WebSelect is vetted by people. They have a Top Ten : Pro vs Con list on the right side of the page. There is a link to more Leading Issues.
If you'd like to see examples of web sites that will lead you astray- check my collection of Is This Real websites. There are sites on the list with hints and tips for figuring out what is real on the Wild Web.
For clear and reliable information on "hot topics" rely on GALILEO for your foundation of information.
Where do you find authoritative articles and web sites? In GALILEO of course!
Two places quickly come to mind:TOPICsearch at Ebsco and SKS WebSelect.
TOPICsearch at Ebsco is a current events database covering social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics. The database contains full text for over 66,000 articles from more than 2,700 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. From the Advanced Search screen, users can select preselected current events and popular topics from drop-down menus.
The drop down lists of topics make it very easy to see what current articles are available.
SKS WebSelect is an online database of Internet resources providing access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. WebSelect is continually updated to include new sites and dynamically changing data. Summaries provide a concise overview of site content and authority. Keyword, Subject Heading, and Topic Browse searches can be performed. Topics are assigned based on site content and mission. WebSelect is dynamically updated and offers Internet resources from around the globe, including those of leading universities, government agencies and respected organizations.
I like how SKS WebSelect is vetted by people. They have a Top Ten : Pro vs Con list on the right side of the page. There is a link to more Leading Issues.
If you'd like to see examples of web sites that will lead you astray- check my collection of Is This Real websites. There are sites on the list with hints and tips for figuring out what is real on the Wild Web.
For clear and reliable information on "hot topics" rely on GALILEO for your foundation of information.
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