Britannica's New World Atlas Features!

Investigate Britannica's World Atlas Features! You can now search Britannica content related to states, provinces and large cities. There is also a brand new Points of Interest feature that allows you to optionally view points of interest on the map such as additional city and town data, places of birth or features of the land.

You can find the World Atlas on each level of Britannica Online School Edition.  Try it today!

http://www.school.eb.com/ 

New Collections in NBC Learn

NBC Learn has launched three new sections:

With less than a year to go until Election Day, the new collection Decision 2012 has been launched. This new collection is designed to help your students research and analyze the 2012 presidential race based on the candidates, issues, calendar of events and the election process. Students will be able to access candidate profiles, from Mitt Romney to Michelle Bachman, to better understand their positions on the most pressing issues facing the country: the economy and jobs, education, national security, immigration and healthcare. This robust collection of NBC News reports and stories will be updated every weekday through the 2013 presidential inauguration.

You’ll also see two brand new collections on the NBC Learn home page this month: Math & Statistics, and Performing & Visual Arts. The math collection contains nearly 200 videos explaining the numbers behind the news. Math plays a big part in the stories you’ll find here, on everything from the national census to the latest medical studies. For the first time, you’ll find an Activity drawer on our CueCard, with helpful math questions drawing from what content in the videos.

Performing & Visual Arts draws on NBC’s unparalleled coverage of the arts, from Dance, Music and Theater to the stories of the business and controversies stirred up by the arts in America. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

You can access NBC Learn from the UDLib/SEARCH pages:
http://udlibsearch.lib.udel.edu/

NBC Learn Added

NBC Learn K-12 is an online educational resource that offers unique collections of video resources, primary source documents, historic footage, images, and other materials for use in the classroom. It is currently available to all Delaware public middle schools for the 2010 and 2011 school years through a generous grant by the Honda Foundation. It is also available to all Delaware public high schools for the 2011 school year through a matching donation by NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News.

Britannica Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

In September, Britannica is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15) with its Spotlight, "Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Hispanic Heritage in the Americas".

This feature explores the people, places, events, and traditions that have shaped - and continue to shape - the vibrant Hispanic culture that thrives today in South, Central, and North America. Read and learn about writers, artists, political and business leaders such as Diego Rivera, Hugo Chavez, and Celia Cruz.

Learn about various Latin American countries, historical events, and cultural celebrations. In addition to a wide array of articles, this Spotlight also contains essays, speeches, images, videos, related websites, and learning activities! Try it today! School Edition (K-12): www.school.eb.com/hispanic_heritage

Enhancements to Gale's In Context Databases

Gale has announced many exciting enhancements coming to the In Context family of resources in the next couple days. These changes are based on user feedback and include universal improvements (i.e. all of the In Context resources) as well as enhancements to individual In Context products.

An example of a universal change is that users will be able to search within portal pages to help them 'trim down' portal page information. An example of an individual product improvement is that people names in Biography in Context have been re-alphabetized by last name to ease the browsing experience. Click here to learn about all the exciting enhancements.

Check out the updates from Science Online!

With this latest update, Science Online adds new versions of human anatomy diagrams without labels, more than 150 new or updated color illustrations, more than 250 new or updated essays on the fascinating topics of microbiology and the solar system, and more than 50 new photographs.

Also new to the database:

- Human Anatomy Diagrams without Labels
- New Essays on Microbiology: Immunity, Extremophile, Biofilm
- New Images: Cheese Production, Life Cycle of Rhizopus, and Respiration and Fermentation

Search Science Online from school or at home!!