Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Which version to use?

Discover America from Compton's by Britannica provides access to statistics and summary information for every state.

The facts are the standard capital, bird, flower, population variety. What I found interesting is the main link in GALILEO takes you to the Middle School version. There are no hyper-links within the state information. At the bottom of the page there are tabs for High School and Elementary. In High School I chose the Discover America link to get to the same map visual. Choosing the identical state provided links to articles from within the text.

The elementary version has the same facts but a simpler Introduction to the state (and no hyperlinks).

I wonder why there are links to other information in the high school version but not the middle school version?

To access Comptons in GALILEO, you need to get the current password from your Georgia librarian!

-kss

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