eTools: Information on Demand
Online reference sources available to all Howard County Public School
elementary school students both at school and at home
Note: Contact your school's library media specialist for log in information.
CultureGrams
http://online.culturegrams.com
NoodleBib 6
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
SIRS Discoverer
http://discoverer.sirs.com
http://www.teachingbooks.net/signin.cgi
World Book Online Reference Center
http://www.worldbookonline.com
Howard County Library
http://www.hclibrary.org
Office of Media and Educational Technology 2009/2010
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-
date country reports on over 200 cultures of the
world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to
deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and
culture, including the history, customs, and
lifestyles of the world's people.
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list
or APA References list that complies with the rules
of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication
Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation,
alphabetization and formatting, producing a
polished source list for import into Word.
SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily
retrievable full-text articles, often with
accompanying graphics, with full printing and
saving capabilities. The full-text articles database
consists of articles reprinted with permission, from
approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and
U.S. government documents. Other features
include: The World Almanac for Kids, Compton’s
Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.
TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to
thousands of online resources of book-related
resources you can use to explore children's and
young adult books and their authors. It provides
immediate access to useful materials and exciting
programs (short movies, audio book readings, book
discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia
dimension to reading in the classroom, library
media center, and home.
World Book Online Reference Center is an
excellent source of reliable, easy to understand
information for students. World Book Online offers
all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links
to maps, web sites, and other print articles.
Use your Howard County Library card and pin
number (request a pin number from the library) to
access many online reference sources. To locate the
online resources, click on “Databases.”
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