I have to admit that when we were told to do these exercises I wasn't thrilled. I do not like to read and retain but once I got going and there was plenty of hands on stuff, I relaxed alittle!
Starting with Worldbook, Learning Express and SIRS was a good start. I liked these the best and think these would be the easiest for others to navigate through. If the schools could utilize the library site would be great. Not sure if they have a different site they use or nothing at all.
I enjoyed Learning Express' pretesting area on basic jobs and even with school subjects. Would be a very good review for kids, like my daughter in math! I enjoyed looking at job description, reading and then taking the test. Was very interesting.
The GaleVirtual Reference got a little deep for me in some catagories. Subjects and info are out there but just wasn't interested enough. The same with the rest of the exercises. If it's not my thing I would prefer not spending my time on it.
WorldCat is familiar to me and we do use that here to order books for patrons. Just hadn't realized there was so much info on each book we borrow. We could find all the books on one author for the patron if they were interested.
Overall, it was a good thing. Not sure how I will promote it to others. Maybe we can put a blurb in our weekly paper article or let the school know somehow, too. Posters or flyers in the library to let the kids know about a few of the sites.
That's all as I wrapped it up!
