Research & Presentation Tools for Students

Research Tools for  Students

The following educational databases are available for all students at home for research:

Ø  E-Library

(Students may have more success by going directly Elibrary elementary

User name: nbed

Password: bigchalk

Ø Ebscohost

(Students   may have more success by going directly to the “Reference Desk”)

User name: nbed

Password: bigchalk

Ø Answers.com

   (no password)

Ø  Encarta On-line

(See “world wide” and “French Canada” for French resources)

   (no password)

  Ø History

Images Resources

These sites may be used to add images and sounds to student’s projects. (copyright free)

Free Images:

Ø Morgue File:

http://www.morguefile.com/

Ø Stock.xchng:

http://www.sxc.hu/

Ø Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/

Ø Wikipedia Images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Ø Pics4Learning:

http://www.pics4learning.com/…..need to resize your images for your project?  Try http://snipshot.com/

Free Sound Files:

Ø Free Play Music

http://www.freeplaymusic.com

Ø Free Sound

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php

Saving Work in Microsoft  Office  2007

If students are creating work in Microsoft 2007 for school they should make sure to save all work as a 97-2003 document as some computers at school do not have Office 2007.

Citing your Resources

These sites help with citing your resources:

http://www.oslis.org/resources/cm/apacitations

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/584/01/