Lesson challenge -- 6 WorldCat

Discovery exercise part 1.

1. Worldcat gives you 14 other ways you could find a text, this is particularly helpful when you do not know the title of a book but happen to know some phrase related to this book it would at least give you a chance of finding the text. After two failed attempts at searching for a book I finally found a third title that gave me one entry. The two other previous attempts were for
The house on mango street," and "Plato and a Platypus go into a bar..." The book that gave me one entry was "the festival of bones," this title as you may or may not have guessed it's related to the day of the deah (all souls day 2 of nov) in México and it's one I use in my class during that time.

2.Only one library worldwide has this text and it's the San Benito county library in California.


3. Other information available in the full record is: Citing this page which sends you on a page that helps you cite the work and I particularly find this helpful for students. Many times they forget to give credit to the author and not only will you lose points but plagiarism is a very dirty word; with the link however a student no longer has the excuse of saying: "I didn't know how to cite the book so I just used it, what's the big deal..." It also has a geographic entry with links to related information on México and the celebration.

Discovery Exercise part 2

The result I chose was "cabin, flag and woman with seven boys." This is a photograph the information on this item is at the bottom and has several links to most of the keywords in the title and where the original photograph is located as well as information how to reach the museum that owns the photograph for copyright in case you wish to use the item. I also noticed at the top of the page is a bottom for citing this resource. Since this tool does not only give you text resources but also offers a variety of resources such as the photograph I looked at I can see where it would add to the richness of a research for a student. I think that you are only limited by your desire and effort. I do like this tool. Here is a link to the photograph in case anyone would like to see it: Cabin, flag and woman with seven boys.

Lesson challenge -- 5 netLibrary

Lesson 5 -- netLibrary

1. I chose to do a search on crafts and came up with 12 different texts that i could review. They vary from crafts for the different seasons to sell your crafts online. Only one text was culturally related it was the one for native American arts of north America, with this one I was disappointed that the description did not include the native American population of México since we are in north America as well a fact I find strangely missing from the geography classes that our students receive in school. However the variety was good even for 12 texts.

2. Constitution day -- Some of the 15 titles the search suggested when I typed "constitution" as a key word were:

A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
by Vile, John R.
Our Elusive Constitution: Silences, Paradoxes, Priorities
SUNY Series in American Constitutionalism
by Hoffman, Daniel N.
The Bill of Rights
Magill's Choice
by Lewis, Thomas T.

The search also suggested books on the constitution of Japan the empire and Japan after 1946 (end of WWII). In order to use this resource I would suggest to students they should refine their searches as much as possible, still 15 searches only 2 of them were not relevant to the U.S. constitution.

3.Nebraska -- this search brought titles such as "O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa." A s well as stories of the plains "indians," it also brought books on settling the west and the reshaping of modern Omaha. I feel this option would be more beneficial than just using the first search. I am confident students will be able to access a good variety of information. This search came up with 4+ pages of titles the student would be able to create a well rounded research or essay.