Showing posts with label online databases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online databases. Show all posts
Connect with your history
March is Women's History Month and we want to help you connect with the women in your ancestry. Use all the tools at your fingertips to advance your Family History research.
Who do you think you are? has made Ancestry.com widely known as a family history research tool. But regardless of what the advertising suggests, it does not have it all.
The library provides you access to various Family History databases, including Ancestry.com, which could broaden your depth of knowledge about members on your tree or even stimulate new branch growth!
FindMyPast has a great range of material covering most countries of the world, however with a particular focus on the records of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Records of women can be found among any of the resources indexed.
Women can be particularly hard to trace so resources which point directly to women can be a boon. Calais Laceworker Immigrants to South Australia and South Australian Destitute Women are a couple of the indexes available via FindMyPast.
The Biographical Database of Australia is designed to help researchers find one person in thousands, to avoid confusing persons of the same name and to track individuals across time. It aims to gather data from a wide variety of original manuscripts and bring them all together under the individuals name. It's a great starting point, for sifting out those with the same name who are not your ancestor. Don't forget to try both of your female ancestors surnames if you know them.
British Newspaper Archive has over 18.5 million digitised newspaper pages from 743 UK papers. Browse by place of publication, title and/or date range. Search by name. Newspaper articles can provide amazing detail about peoples lives. They were the social media of the times. If anything happened it was recorded in the papers. Shipping records, arrests, trials, weddings, parties and advertisements can provide clues to locating people. Just have a browse and get a feel for the big news items of the times which can provide clues as to why an ancestor chose to leave all they knew and travel to Australia.
Sydney Morning Herald Archives has digitised reproductions of every edition between the years 1955 and 1995. Use this to find personal notices detailing births, deaths and marriages not yet released by the NSW Registry of Birth, Deaths and Marriages. Birth records are not released to the public until 100 years have passed, marriages must wait 50 years and deaths 30 years. This is not done just to annoy family historians, but for good privacy reasons. So personal notices are a boon!
Ancestry Library Edition boasts over 1.5 million names in over 4000 databases and at that it is the biggest single source of genealogical information. New South Wales, Australia, Wives and children of Irish Convicts, 1825 -1840, Principal women of the Empire: Australia and New Zealand are two resources dealing specifically with women, however females are documented in all other resources as well.
Come in to one of the Sutherland Shire Libraries to search and see the original documents supplied via the library's subscription.
Who do you think you are? has made Ancestry.com widely known as a family history research tool. But regardless of what the advertising suggests, it does not have it all.
The library provides you access to various Family History databases, including Ancestry.com, which could broaden your depth of knowledge about members on your tree or even stimulate new branch growth!
FindMyPast has a great range of material covering most countries of the world, however with a particular focus on the records of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Records of women can be found among any of the resources indexed.
Women can be particularly hard to trace so resources which point directly to women can be a boon. Calais Laceworker Immigrants to South Australia and South Australian Destitute Women are a couple of the indexes available via FindMyPast.
The Biographical Database of Australia is designed to help researchers find one person in thousands, to avoid confusing persons of the same name and to track individuals across time. It aims to gather data from a wide variety of original manuscripts and bring them all together under the individuals name. It's a great starting point, for sifting out those with the same name who are not your ancestor. Don't forget to try both of your female ancestors surnames if you know them.
Come in to one of the Sutherland Shire Libraries to search and see the original documents supplied via the library's subscription.
How did we get to here?
Many of the events we hear about and see via news services and social media are not just randomly happening. The circumstances that allowed them to happen have often been building for years, decades and even centuries.
Asbestos scare... sees student's uniforms removed...this headline from February might prompt some to wonder why asbestos is so feared!
Migrant crisis: Australia opens it's doors to Syrian refugees Did you know that the current Syrian refugee crisis has been building since the Syrian uprising in 2011? Turkey has had refugee camps full of Syrians for the last 5 years!
Festival Pill testing trial to begin...vows drug expert...find out the back story behind the headlines. Why are we talking about this? What are the pros and cons? Is it done elsewhere?
TIP: Use your Sutherland Library membership number to log in and follow the links to World History in Context content.
Find this and many similar resources on the Sutherland Shire Libraries website under Digital Collections > Research Databeases
Images provided via Britannica Image Quest
Asbestos scare... sees student's uniforms removed...this headline from February might prompt some to wonder why asbestos is so feared!
World History in Context can supply the background.
Articles which cover aspects from the cement, to fibres, and materials containing it to detrimental health effects, victims, litigation and abatement of consequences can be found. The results of the search are divided into Reference, Magazines, News Academic Journals and Photos and Audio.
Migrant crisis: Australia opens it's doors to Syrian refugees Did you know that the current Syrian refugee crisis has been building since the Syrian uprising in 2011? Turkey has had refugee camps full of Syrians for the last 5 years!
Festival Pill testing trial to begin...vows drug expert...find out the back story behind the headlines. Why are we talking about this? What are the pros and cons? Is it done elsewhere?
TIP: Use your Sutherland Library membership number to log in and follow the links to World History in Context content.
Find this and many similar resources on the Sutherland Shire Libraries website under Digital Collections > Research Databeases
Images provided via Britannica Image Quest
Party in AusMusic month with Freegal
There is no better way to participate in AusMusic month than by downloading Australian artists legally, and giving them their due. Freegal is the way to do it.
Freegal allows free music and music video downloads and live streaming of thousands of artists on the Sony catalogue, to library members.
All files downloaded are yours to keep. They are DRM free, so can be transferred to secondary devices like iPods, MP3 players or burnt to CD.
Use the app to login to Sutherland Shire Library with your membership number and download or stream directly to your device.
Search by artist, song title or genre and sample before downloading, so you only get what you like.
Freegal has created playlists to help liven up your party. The 15 playlists include One Hit Wonders, Dance/Electronic Hits, Classic Rock and Country.
Create and keep your own playlists. Easily find Top Singles, Top Artists and Recent Releases.
Jessica Mauboy
Paul Kelly
Justice Crew
Little Sea Nick Cave Parkway Drive Midnight Oil Josh Pyke Samantha Jade Australian Chamber Orchestra
Or just pick from the best!
Freegal allows free music and music video downloads and live streaming of thousands of artists on the Sony catalogue, to library members.
All files downloaded are yours to keep. They are DRM free, so can be transferred to secondary devices like iPods, MP3 players or burnt to CD.
Use the app to login to Sutherland Shire Library with your membership number and download or stream directly to your device.
Search by artist, song title or genre and sample before downloading, so you only get what you like.
Freegal has created playlists to help liven up your party. The 15 playlists include One Hit Wonders, Dance/Electronic Hits, Classic Rock and Country.
Create and keep your own playlists. Easily find Top Singles, Top Artists and Recent Releases.
Wondering where to start? Give some of these Aussie artists a go.
Jessica Mauboy
Paul Kelly
Justice CrewLittle Sea Nick Cave Parkway Drive Midnight Oil Josh Pyke Samantha Jade Australian Chamber Orchestra
Or just pick from the best!
Download 3 songs or 1 song and 1 music video each week to keep, whilst live streaming 3 hours of music per day.
Tune your Language Skills for job seeking
Revise your translating skills with Road to IELTS
General and/or Academic Training databases offer;
In each area there is access to advice and video tutorials, on how to complete the activity, the practise exercises and practise tests.
At the end of each individual activity get feedback on scores, and go back and redo the activity until 100% is achieved.
This resource helps with language skill practise only. There is no formal qualification on completion of this course material. See IELTS.org to locate and book the testing centre of your choice in order to formalise your learning.
Can help you fine tune your second language skills!
If you haven't used your second language for some time and need to practise before adding it as a skill to your resume, Mango Languages is the place for you.
There are 71 language courses to choose from, as well as English a second language for 19 languages.
There are also 37 specialty courses from soccer celebration to flamenco dancing!
Once you've chosen your language you can start with the basics and the subject of your interest.
Or take a placement test to help you locate where your language skills place you in the course.
Mango languages is about improving conversational skills, reading and pronunciation, as each sentence is given in the chosen language and English and you can hear it spoken.
General and/or Academic Training databases offer;
- 17 videos of British Council experts giving IELTS advice.
- Over 300 interactivetutorials.
- Progress graphs
- 4 ebooks explaining the tasks
- Mock test papers with model answers.
- Videos of the speaking test.
In each area there is access to advice and video tutorials, on how to complete the activity, the practise exercises and practise tests.
At the end of each individual activity get feedback on scores, and go back and redo the activity until 100% is achieved.
This resource helps with language skill practise only. There is no formal qualification on completion of this course material. See IELTS.org to locate and book the testing centre of your choice in order to formalise your learning.
If you haven't used your second language for some time and need to practise before adding it as a skill to your resume, Mango Languages is the place for you.
There are 71 language courses to choose from, as well as English a second language for 19 languages.
There are also 37 specialty courses from soccer celebration to flamenco dancing!
Once you've chosen your language you can start with the basics and the subject of your interest.
Mango languages is about improving conversational skills, reading and pronunciation, as each sentence is given in the chosen language and English and you can hear it spoken.
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Online Computer Training
Need to upgrade your job skills? Your library card is all you need to access online resources that will enhance your existing work-related skills, or help you acquire new ones.
Learn a variety of computing skills with this self-paced and interactive program. Courses include Windows 8, Microsoft Office 2010 and social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Blogger)
Create a new account to start Computer Training Online and keep track of your progress through the different lessons. Spend 10 minutes or 10 hours at a time. Take one week or the rest of the year to complete the tasks. It's entirely self-paced so the time you devote is up to you. Your progression through the sessions will be recorded so you always know where to take it up again.
Once you have entered your library card number, New Users of Computer Training Online will need to Create an Account. Just fill in this basic form:
Decide which course you'd like to start with...
Pick the version you wish to know more about..
Launch whichever lesson you want .....
Each task provides an estimated time, and the number of steps, for completion. But there is no actual time limit...take as little or as much time as required.
Once complete, restart the task again and again until you've got it!
Each session is interactive, requiring you to participate in the learning process, so you are actually completing the tasks you are being taught about. The training screens replicate exactly what you will be seeing when you attempt the same process 'live' on your computer.
This suite of courses, if completed, will go a long way in providing the knowledge required in computer skills to get that first job, or get back into the workforce after a break.
Learn a variety of computing skills with this self-paced and interactive program. Courses include Windows 8, Microsoft Office 2010 and social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Blogger)
Create a new account to start Computer Training Online and keep track of your progress through the different lessons. Spend 10 minutes or 10 hours at a time. Take one week or the rest of the year to complete the tasks. It's entirely self-paced so the time you devote is up to you. Your progression through the sessions will be recorded so you always know where to take it up again.
Once you have entered your library card number, New Users of Computer Training Online will need to Create an Account. Just fill in this basic form:
Decide which course you'd like to start with...
Pick the version you wish to know more about..
Launch whichever lesson you want .....
Each task provides an estimated time, and the number of steps, for completion. But there is no actual time limit...take as little or as much time as required.
Each session is interactive, requiring you to participate in the learning process, so you are actually completing the tasks you are being taught about. The training screens replicate exactly what you will be seeing when you attempt the same process 'live' on your computer.
This suite of courses, if completed, will go a long way in providing the knowledge required in computer skills to get that first job, or get back into the workforce after a break.
Who do you think you are?
Track down the truth during Family History Month.
Discovering the past is an adventure which can take people to many places, they never dreamt of going. Hopefully their local library is not one of them!
Your local Sutherland Shire Library provides access to many resources which will help you on the journey of discovery, and staff who are able to assist along the way.
You can see what the library's resources, have on offer from the comfort of your home, however all (but Trove) require you to be in one of the Shire's libraries to retrieve the documents relating to any search.
Find the Sutherland Shire Library home page, look for Digital Collections > Family History.
There are nine different databases linked on the Family History page:
Ancestry Library Edition, Biographical Database of Australia, British Newspaper Archive, FindMyPast, Internet History Resources, Sydney Morning Herald Archives and Trove.
Most allow you to see the range of information they have and search, but restrict access to the original documents attached to any search results.
Come into the library to get free access to those original records!!
Ancestry has original documents which can provide clues to a persons life.
Take the surname Williams. Military records, offered up this document, from the New Zealand WWI Nominal Rolls. For each man enlisted, it provides his Company, Serial No. Rank, Full name, Occupation and Name & Address of Next of Kin. Use this information to further explore military and civilian records.
Or follow the fortunes of those in the care of government, like Rosa Mooney. She was just 4 3/4 years of age when she was "deserted by her father, mother dead", April 3rd 1865. (Birth date Jul 1860?) Rosa is a sister to ?? and Elizabeth ?? . On December 29th 1874, she was apprenticed to Mr J.B. Evans of Candelo, at the age of thirteen. Newspapers of the time could fill in what happened next? Trove may be worth a look.
FindMyPast is another database with original documentation that can help to fill in the gaps.
Visit your library during Family History Month, and talk to staff to get started.
Discovering the past is an adventure which can take people to many places, they never dreamt of going. Hopefully their local library is not one of them!
Your local Sutherland Shire Library provides access to many resources which will help you on the journey of discovery, and staff who are able to assist along the way.
You can see what the library's resources, have on offer from the comfort of your home, however all (but Trove) require you to be in one of the Shire's libraries to retrieve the documents relating to any search.
Find the Sutherland Shire Library home page, look for Digital Collections > Family History.
There are nine different databases linked on the Family History page:
Ancestry Library Edition, Biographical Database of Australia, British Newspaper Archive, FindMyPast, Internet History Resources, Sydney Morning Herald Archives and Trove.
Most allow you to see the range of information they have and search, but restrict access to the original documents attached to any search results.
Come into the library to get free access to those original records!!
Ancestry has original documents which can provide clues to a persons life.
Take the surname Williams. Military records, offered up this document, from the New Zealand WWI Nominal Rolls. For each man enlisted, it provides his Company, Serial No. Rank, Full name, Occupation and Name & Address of Next of Kin. Use this information to further explore military and civilian records.
Or follow the fortunes of those in the care of government, like Rosa Mooney. She was just 4 3/4 years of age when she was "deserted by her father, mother dead", April 3rd 1865. (Birth date Jul 1860?) Rosa is a sister to ?? and Elizabeth ?? . On December 29th 1874, she was apprenticed to Mr J.B. Evans of Candelo, at the age of thirteen. Newspapers of the time could fill in what happened next? Trove may be worth a look.
FindMyPast is another database with original documentation that can help to fill in the gaps.
Visit your library during Family History Month, and talk to staff to get started.
Create your own Film Festival anytime
Australasian video online and Theatre in video from Alexander Street are Sutherland Shire Library's newest databases for members to use from home!
Start watching now, all you need is your library card and pin numbers
Enjoy 500 hours of the best films from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands. Included are indigenous and non-indigenous films, course materials and transcripts. Short films, documentaries as well as, reality & popular TV.
Choose from 350 documentaries, performances and animations from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, plus more from SBS Television, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilms, and Electric Pictures.
Documentaries like Australia's own - Air Australia (2002) The 1930s bring growing maturity to aviation as the first international airlines burst onto the scene conquering distance and introducing luxury flying. The bombing of Darwin brings war directly to Australia. The war will change everything!
Performance works like The Magic Arts, 1978 which is a visual onslaught of artistic ideas, showing how art relates to and intertwines with our daily lives....and how we've matured!
Animations like Jeanne Baker's 'Where the Forest meets the Sea' using relief collage animation a beautiful short film has been created depicting the wilderness area between the Daintree River and Bloomfield in North Queensland, as seen through the eyes of a child.
Watch more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours.
These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, include some of the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, along with live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, contemporary revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, and more. Theatre in video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history.
Performances like this 1990 production of Hamlet directed and played by Kevin Kline. Follow along with the transcript, or use the clip bookmarks to skip to your favourite soliloquy.. 'Alas poor Yorick'
Documentaries like Puppetry: worlds of imagination from 2001, which surveys the revolutionary new developments in American puppet theatre, profiling many of puppetry’s most imaginative contemporary artists, including Basil Twist.
Plays done for television were once a popular way of bringing classics to the wider community. It also allowed actors to cut their 'on screen' teeth. See where your favourite actors started out, like Susan Sarandon in this 1974 version of George F Kaufman's June Moon.
Happy viewing!
Start watching now, all you need is your library card and pin numbers
Enjoy 500 hours of the best films from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands. Included are indigenous and non-indigenous films, course materials and transcripts. Short films, documentaries as well as, reality & popular TV.
Choose from 350 documentaries, performances and animations from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, plus more from SBS Television, George Andrews Productions, Beamafilms, and Electric Pictures.
Documentaries like Australia's own - Air Australia (2002) The 1930s bring growing maturity to aviation as the first international airlines burst onto the scene conquering distance and introducing luxury flying. The bombing of Darwin brings war directly to Australia. The war will change everything! Performance works like The Magic Arts, 1978 which is a visual onslaught of artistic ideas, showing how art relates to and intertwines with our daily lives....and how we've matured!
Animations like Jeanne Baker's 'Where the Forest meets the Sea' using relief collage animation a beautiful short film has been created depicting the wilderness area between the Daintree River and Bloomfield in North Queensland, as seen through the eyes of a child.Watch more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours.
These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, include some of the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, along with live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, contemporary revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, and more. Theatre in video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history.
Performances like this 1990 production of Hamlet directed and played by Kevin Kline. Follow along with the transcript, or use the clip bookmarks to skip to your favourite soliloquy.. 'Alas poor Yorick'
Family (Online) Reading Fun!
Family reading time now has no limits! If you have internet access then these interactive books and games can be enjoyed together, from the convenient location of home, the park or anywhere...any time! Library members have exclusive use of these great online activities.
Literacy levels can be raised whilst playing the library's selection of online educational games for preliterate and developing readers.
Heads Up: Most of these require Adobe Flash player to open the books. To be able to use them on iPhones, Androids and all tablets, install the browser called Puffin and use that to access. This browser bypasses the need for Adobe Flash player.
A tantiliser of each title is provided, as well as a reading age.
Books look like books and each 'page' needs to be turned using the controls at the bottom. General navigation is easy.
A library of educational stories, games, videos, comics, jokes, poems, puzzles and activities for readers at the 6 - 12 level. It is fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum (English), all primary levels.
Developing Literacy: there are190 texts, divided amoungst 12 different catagories eg. puppet plays, make & do, Australian Curriculum English. Caters for the Preschool to Year 2 reading level.
Extending Literacy: there are 400 texts, divided into 23 categories eg. choose your own adventure, skill builder, myths and legends, yucky! caters for Year 3 - Year 6 reading levels.
Easy to access, just type in your barcode and you are away!
The books are developed for the online environment. Pictures appear as one reads the story or they 'do' what the text is talking about
This is learning, well disguised as fun. Quickly and simply give small children an interactive online game to occupy them. The bonus is they are learning the basics without a whiff of it seeming educational.
Behind these "Buttons" are subdivisions...Letters - Shapes & Sounds, Phonics, Numbers, Basic calculation, Shapes, Maze games, Cause and effect games, Mouse Skills.
It is bright and exciting from the first minute, even waiting for the games to load is designed to keep a small person interested.
BusyThings works on iPhone and Android without the Puffin browser, the view is different and there are fewer 'games', but is essentially the same
There are very few written instructions, it waits for the user to click on something to see what happens, or uses spoken instructions.
Does not require Puffin
Parents need to be involved especially at the lower levels.
Progress can be tracked and 'free' games can only be played once enough credit points are earned.
Literacy Planet covers key areas of English literacy: Pre-Reading, Phonics, Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling, Grammar & Comprehension very comprehensively.
To begin using Literacy Planet you will need to create a student account for each child.
This account allows you to track progress and receive motivational rewards.
Once the student accounts have been created you will be emailed a unique login for one.
On return to Literacy Planet students can log in to their personal account and continue from where they left off.
There are many levels in each Learning area...see screen shot.
Under each final level is a game, puzzle, activity etc. which helps develop the particular skill selected.
To play in the Arcade, one needs to earn credits.
So don't forget the books, they can be enjoyed without having to do any work.!!!
Competitive children will love this.
Requires Puffin
Early World of Learning is a fun site for pre-school to year 2 students. It contains three learning environments, each targeting a critical area of the development of young learners in early elementary grades.
Trek’s Travels offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colours, opposites, and more.
Welcome to Reading provides graded reading practice to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills.
Know It is a first online encyclopedia. Know It provides a richly visual interactive encyclopedia that will captivate early learners with nonfiction topics of interest and importance to them.
As well as books there are songs, videos, games and activities, all graded by reading level.
Programmed to read aloud the various options as the mouse runs over them, so it is easier for non-readers to use.
Requires Puffin.
Happy Reading!!
Literacy levels can be raised whilst playing the library's selection of online educational games for preliterate and developing readers.
Heads Up: Most of these require Adobe Flash player to open the books. To be able to use them on iPhones, Androids and all tablets, install the browser called Puffin and use that to access. This browser bypasses the need for Adobe Flash player.
In2Era—Picture Books Online
Develop a love of books here. These interactive books, are divided into categories and graded for reading levels. So choice is up to you. Pick from Eerie Tales, Picture Books, Readalong, and Traditional Tales.
Read the story or listen while it is read you and have fun with the activities associated with each story, drawing and picture creation as well as quizzes.Books look like books and each 'page' needs to be turned using the controls at the bottom. General navigation is easy.
Ziptales
Focused on literacy, primary education, games and ‘edutainment’, Ziptales helps to improve reading ability whilst enjoying the experience. Learn a love of reading.
A library of educational stories, games, videos, comics, jokes, poems, puzzles and activities for readers at the 6 - 12 level. It is fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum (English), all primary levels.
Developing Literacy: there are190 texts, divided amoungst 12 different catagories eg. puppet plays, make & do, Australian Curriculum English. Caters for the Preschool to Year 2 reading level.
Easy to access, just type in your barcode and you are away!
The books are developed for the online environment. Pictures appear as one reads the story or they 'do' what the text is talking about
Busy Things
Over 120 online learning games for 3-6 year olds. Children, parents and teachers can access fun yet educational activities and games. The activities range across literacy, numeracy and problem solving that promise to educate whilst entertaining beginning readers.This is learning, well disguised as fun. Quickly and simply give small children an interactive online game to occupy them. The bonus is they are learning the basics without a whiff of it seeming educational.
Behind these "Buttons" are subdivisions...Letters - Shapes & Sounds, Phonics, Numbers, Basic calculation, Shapes, Maze games, Cause and effect games, Mouse Skills.
It is bright and exciting from the first minute, even waiting for the games to load is designed to keep a small person interested.
BusyThings works on iPhone and Android without the Puffin browser, the view is different and there are fewer 'games', but is essentially the same
There are very few written instructions, it waits for the user to click on something to see what happens, or uses spoken instructions.
Does not require Puffin
Literacy Planet
Very much a teaching 'English' and a remedial tool, good for tracking progress. Develop English literacy skills while playing games. There are over 10,000 exercises to make literacy fun.Progress can be tracked and 'free' games can only be played once enough credit points are earned.
Literacy Planet covers key areas of English literacy: Pre-Reading, Phonics, Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling, Grammar & Comprehension very comprehensively.
To begin using Literacy Planet you will need to create a student account for each child.
This account allows you to track progress and receive motivational rewards.
Once the student accounts have been created you will be emailed a unique login for one.
On return to Literacy Planet students can log in to their personal account and continue from where they left off.
Under each final level is a game, puzzle, activity etc. which helps develop the particular skill selected.
To play in the Arcade, one needs to earn credits.
So don't forget the books, they can be enjoyed without having to do any work.!!!
Competitive children will love this.
Requires Puffin
World Book - Early World of Learning
Early World of Learning is a fun site for pre-school to year 2 students. It contains three learning environments, each targeting a critical area of the development of young learners in early elementary grades.Trek’s Travels offers narrated stories, interactive games, and original videos that teach critical early childhood themes, including numbers, shapes, colours, opposites, and more.
Welcome to Reading provides graded reading practice to develop and strengthen phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension skills.Know It is a first online encyclopedia. Know It provides a richly visual interactive encyclopedia that will captivate early learners with nonfiction topics of interest and importance to them.
As well as books there are songs, videos, games and activities, all graded by reading level.
Programmed to read aloud the various options as the mouse runs over them, so it is easier for non-readers to use.
Requires Puffin.
Happy Reading!!
Language Matters
Mango Languages and Road to IELTS - Preparation and Practice, are online tools provided to Sutherland Shire Library members.
As Harmony Day is on March 21st, it seemed a perfect opportunity to highlight our language learning tools, along with our special Multicultural Storytimes. (See details below)
When would you use these language learning tools?
Then this is when you would use these online tools.
Mango Languages online offers courses in 57 non-English languages.
and English courses designed for speakers of 17 languages, as well as Latin, Greek - Koine, Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew.
Courses can be used on a PC or a Mango App is available for use on tablet or smartphone, Android or Apple devices.
Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By
listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, users not only learn the individual words and phrases, they will know how they're used in practical situations and conversations.
Everyone is asked to create a profile the first time you use it, from then on each time you return you will be asked to login. This allows for your progress through the course(s) to be tracked so you always know where you are up to and how well you are doing. Lessons are divided into short chunks and do not have to be completed in order. They can be skipped through until you find the situation to match your immediate needs.
The International English Language Testing System, Road to IELTS - Preparation and Practise courses come in two levels, General or Academic.
Road to IELTS - General training measures English language proficiency in a practical, everyday context. The tasks and texts reflect both workplace and social situations. It includes 120 hours of work on the essential components of the test, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking. The program simulates the exam itself.
Road to IELTS - Academic training measures English language proficiency needed for an academic, higher learning environment. The tasks and texts are accessible to all test-takers, irrespective of their subject focus. One of the challenges of IELTS preparation is enabling learners to interpret and describe charts and tables. Road to IELTS - Academic includes a wealth of these graphics and more than 70 exercises. The program includes detailed explanations of each question type in each part of the exam, and tips on how best to tackle the tasks.
The distinction between the Academic version and the General Training version lies in the subject matter of the Reading and Writing components.
To be clear, one cannot sit the test, using these library tools. They are designed to prepare learners for what will be expected in the tests, so learners can sit the tests as well prepared as possible.
Monday 17 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Miranda
Cantonese
Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Caringbah
Spanish
Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Menai
Russian
Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Sutherland
German
Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Sylvania
Russian
Friday 21 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Cronulla
Spanish
Friday 21 Mar 2014 10:30am Preschool Storytime Engadine
As Harmony Day is on March 21st, it seemed a perfect opportunity to highlight our language learning tools, along with our special Multicultural Storytimes. (See details below)
When would you use these language learning tools?
- To talk to someone you know in their own language.
- To learn some basic language skills to help with your travels.
- Improve your fluency if English is your second language
- If you need certification of your English skills
Then this is when you would use these online tools.
and English courses designed for speakers of 17 languages, as well as Latin, Greek - Koine, Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew.
Courses can be used on a PC or a Mango App is available for use on tablet or smartphone, Android or Apple devices.
Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By
listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, users not only learn the individual words and phrases, they will know how they're used in practical situations and conversations.
Everyone is asked to create a profile the first time you use it, from then on each time you return you will be asked to login. This allows for your progress through the course(s) to be tracked so you always know where you are up to and how well you are doing. Lessons are divided into short chunks and do not have to be completed in order. They can be skipped through until you find the situation to match your immediate needs.
The International English Language Testing System, Road to IELTS - Preparation and Practise courses come in two levels, General or Academic.
Road to IELTS - General training measures English language proficiency in a practical, everyday context. The tasks and texts reflect both workplace and social situations. It includes 120 hours of work on the essential components of the test, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking. The program simulates the exam itself.
Road to IELTS - Academic training measures English language proficiency needed for an academic, higher learning environment. The tasks and texts are accessible to all test-takers, irrespective of their subject focus. One of the challenges of IELTS preparation is enabling learners to interpret and describe charts and tables. Road to IELTS - Academic includes a wealth of these graphics and more than 70 exercises. The program includes detailed explanations of each question type in each part of the exam, and tips on how best to tackle the tasks.
The distinction between the Academic version and the General Training version lies in the subject matter of the Reading and Writing components.
To be clear, one cannot sit the test, using these library tools. They are designed to prepare learners for what will be expected in the tests, so learners can sit the tests as well prepared as possible.
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