Databases

Databases

I would have liked to have known about the databases offered to our school via the Vancouver School Board when working on my LLED 469 course as they would have come in very handy.  Over the past 4 years we have had 6 different people working in our library, only one was a qualified Teacher Librarian.  Over these years I received a piece of paper that listed the databases that we had access to along with the log in information.  The only database that I ever use is Bookflix because someone actually showed me how to use it.  The other databases listed in the “Just for Younger Students” section would have come in handy when we were working on our animal resource based learning projects as many of the books in our library are between 15 and 20 years old.  Before I assign the animal resource based learning project next year, I am going to have to work through the databases to learn how to use them so that I can teach the children how to effectively use them in their research.  The databases that I will be using with the children, in the computer lab, are Kids Search Database, Searchasaurus, Starfall and the Worldbook Kids.  It would have been nice to have had some instruction or information on these databases from the Teacher Librarian.