Lesson One of the SD Library Electronic Resouse Challenge

For Lesson 1 of the SD Library Challenge, the mammal I chose to do research on was the dolphin.  I was surprised to find out that there are two types of dolphins, salt water, which most of us are familiar with, and river dolphins. River dolphins live in fresh or slightly salty rivers and lakes in Asia and South America.  Dolphins have a highly developed sense of hearing, along with good vision and a keen sense of touch.  What I didn’t know is that they have no sense of smell.

The information found on World Book Online Kids was simple, with basic information in comparison to World Book Online Info Finder, which had an expanded amount of information.  Both sites were easy to navigate and appear to be a great source of information for the targeted age level. 

I work at a post secondary tech school, so for the third exercise using the World Book Online Reference Center, I was unsure how the information of a country would be valuable to our students.  I decided to look for information that might pertain to them, and I was able to find some information for each subject that I searched for, (ex:  wind power, medical terms, etc.) and I believe this could be a good starting point for research.

I really like the “Hear text read aloud”, “Translate this text” and “How to cite this article” tools on each site, and believe they are valuable learning tools.