Pioneer+Library

**﻿Pioneer Library **

**Emedia:**
Emedia contains free media that Utah teachers and students can use and it is all free! They keep their website pretty up to date and they add new things daily. They had new stuff that had been put on this week so I would say it is fairly current. It was really easy to navigate and if you needed any help they had tutorials you could look at to help you figure out how to work the website. This website provides video, audio, images, documents, and interactives. It can be used for all grades levels. Teachers can use this website to find videos for their students to watch or find audio to put with a PowerPoint or just for them to listen to. This is a great source for any teacher to use because you can find it all in one place! Emedia also had a button that was titled effective teaching which gave suggestions on how you could use the website and steps you should take. Students can find videos for a project or audio and then they can also use the interactives to get more involved with what they are learning. I will definitely use this website when I become a teacher.

**‍EBSCO:**
This website is a search engine that is broken up into sections that are age appropriate. It helps you to find newspaper articles, magazine articles, books and encyclopedias, biographies, audio, and images. The information is very useful, and I am definitely going to use this website for projects that I may need to research. The information is very current I found an article that was posted on Monday of this week. I thought that this website was really easy to navigate because on the home page it lets you choose which search engine you would like to go to by grade level and then once to that page it had a list of subjects or you could just look things up with the basic search. This website let you choose which types of media you wanted to look for instead of just having to look through everything. If you only wanted to look up magazine articles about that subject you just had to only select magazine articles and that is what it would pull up. Teachers can use this website to find information on subjects they will be teaching and also find articles to share with their classes. Students can use this website for research when they do projects or papers that require them to have multiple kinds of sources. My favorite search engine was the Searchasaurus because it was very easy to use and younger students would have lots of fun looking up stuff because of the graphics they had which made the learning fun.

**‍CultureGrams:**
This website contains information about the world’s countries, U.S. states, and Canadian Provinces. The information provided is very thorough and very useful. When you go to a certain country or state you have tons of information that you can use. It shows you a map, what the flag looks like, you can listen to the national anthem, you can look at videos or pictures from that place, and they even have a place that you can look at recipes from that country or state. The information is current and they keep everything up to date. I checked the population of the United States, and they were only like 4,000 off which is pretty good considering how many people we have living here. The site is very easy to navigate because you first select what section you would like to look at then you select what country or state you would like to research and then it is all right in front of you and you just have to click on what you would like to learn about. The kid’s edition has lots of colors and makes it very pleasing to the eye. I liked how the different sections were different colors which made it easier to distinguish which one was which. A teacher could use this website to get information on certain states or countries that they were talking about in class or that the teacher was giving a presentation on. I would have my students use this website when they are doing projects or countries or states because I think that it is a very educational site and would be really useful for students.