LA Times online free

Here’s another free resource for your classes, the LA Times online seven days a week. The library has reserved 40 student accounts per period.

On any computer, at school or anywhere else, go to this web address: http://eedition.latimes.com/cgi-bin/cie.cgi . To try it out yourself first, under Student Login type Teachers Username: edlevin and Class Password: gosuns1. Then click on the picture of the newspaper to open the e-Edition of today’s LA Times, courtesy of the Times in Education Program and its sponsors.

If you want to use them in your class let me know, so that we can set up more accounts for other classes.

(Image from San Francisco Sentinal.com 2/4/2011)

Great History Resource

I just received 56 beautiful new Salem Press History reference books FREE from LAUSD Library Services. Please come in and take a look. But those 56 volumes are just the tip of the iceberg of what is AVAILABLE TO YOU FREE online from the same publisher. Because LAUSD subscribes, anybody who logs on to the Internet from a computer on this (or any other) campus, has free full-text access to a wider range of Salem Press databases, all searchable from one simple screen. EVERY TEACHER OF HISTORY, ENGLISH, BUSINESS or other related field should take a look online, for resources for your lesson planning, or for having your students access specific material from school.
It’s online as part of the LAUSD Digital Library. Once you’re there click on Salem Press History. If you’re not already familiar with Digital Library, you can access it two ways:

1. Go to downtownmagnets.org->Academics->Library->LAUSD Digital Library, or

2. Go to lausd.net and click on Resources->Instructional Resources->Digital Library.

For now, here's the direct link to Salem History: http://history.salempress.com/

Once you are at Salem Press History you will see a list of “Reference set(s) currently available”. Note that there is a “+” to the left of each heading. Click on each plus to see which lists expand into multiple reference sets.

THE “FIND” BOX SEARCHES ACROSS ALL THESE RESOURCES WITH ONE KEY STROKE. If you get too many hits, you can also do carefully targeted searches using the Advanced Search.

Let me know what you find.

(By the way, I took the picture of the new reference books on the cart with the camera on my phone).