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Help Resources for Britannica Online School Edition

Proceed to Britannica Online School Edition.Britannica Online School Edition contains three encyclopedias with more than100,000 articles, atlas, dictionary, images and video clips, reviewed Web sites, magazine articles and more.

Access Britannica Online School Edition at school and at home. All Ohio K-12 students and their parents, as well as K-12 educators, can use the state-funded INFOhio Electronic Resources free-of-charge. Home access requires a username and password available from your school's library media center, technology coordinator or Information Technology Center (ITC) Staff Provider.

The Basics - Getting Started

Getting Started Guide, August 2007 [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]

Basics of Searching in Britannica, December 2005. Learn how to search across all levels of Britannica Online School Edition at once to find materials for any level: elementary, middle or high school. [5:31 min. video]

Britannica Online School Edition and INFOhio, November 2007, by Hilit Kravitz, Director of Professional Development, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Handout from INFOhio IVDL session. [PDF 14 pgs]

Elementary Overview, December 2005. Get to know the many elementary-level materials included in Britannica Online School Edition, such as student activities and research materials. [4:56 min. video]

High School Overview, December 2005. See the great collection of high school-level materials included in Britannica Online School Edition, with materials for research projects as well as curriculum materials for Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. [4:35 min. video]

Middle School Overview, December 2005. Become familiar with the many middle school/junior high school-level materials included in Britannica Online School Edition, such as research materials and student activities. [4:45 min. video]

Online Help. Includes Search Tips, Dictionary / Thesaurus Tips and more.

Advanced Training Resources

Biographies & Timelines, December 2005. See how to find biographies of important people from throughout history and all over the world, and see how to get ideas for new projects using Britannica's interactive historical timelines. [5:53 min. video]

Britannica Elementary, 2006. Handout for elementary school students and up [PDF 4 pgs]

Britannica Online School Edition, 2006. General overview and Learning Materials [PDF 4 pgs]

Britannica Online School Edition Resources for Teachers. Link to corporate site.

Britannica Supports Ohio School Standards! October 2005 [PDF 2 pgs]

Britannica's Pre-research Planner (English and Spanish), n.d. [PDF 2 pgs]

Compton's by Britannica, 2006. Handout for middle school students and up [PDF 4 pgs]

Elementary Learning Materials, December 2005. See Britannica's collection of student activities and teacher resources to help students develop basic skills in Reading, Writing, Math and other subjects. [5:25 min. video]

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006. Handout for high school students and up [PDF 4 pgs]

Encyclopedia Content, December 2005. Get to know all of the features available in Britannica's encyclopedia articles, such as automatic citations in MLA and APA formats, print and e-mail features, the table of contents and links to related materials. [6:25 min. video]

Encyclopedia Worksheets help facilitate the integration of Britannica's encyclopedias into the curriculum.

Expanded Research Materials, December 2005. See how students can expand their research projects to include a range of sources such as current magazine articles, recommended Internet sites and multimedia. [5:49 min. video]

Learning Activities for Britannica Online School Edition are designed for about ten minutes of student time on task. Each relates to an Ohio Academic Content Standard indicator statement and is based on an essential question.

Linking Britannica Learning Materials (Animations) to PowerPoint Presentations, May 2006, by Sheila Benedum, Bay Village High School [MS Word OR PDF 1 pg]

Linking Britannica Video Clips to PowerPoint Presentations, April 2006, by Sheila Benedum, Bay Village High School [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]

Multimedia & Videos, December 2005. Learn how to find video and multimedia clips in Britannica and see how they can be downloaded to use in your own projects. [7:28 min. video]

Ohio Academic Content Standards, December 2005. See how to find encyclopedia articles and student activities that support the standards you are teaching whether Language Arts, Mathematics, Science or Social Studies, etc. [6:20 min. video]

Quick-Click Dictionary, December 2005. Learn how to use Britannica's unique quick-click dictionary for instant word definitions and audio pronunciations from Merriam-Webster. [3:35 min. video]

Secondary Learning Materials, December 2005. Become familiar with Britannica's collection of student activities and teachers resources for English, History, Earth Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, all levels of Mathematics and other subject. [6:47 min. video]

Selected Magazines, Journals & Periodicals Included in Britannica Online School Edition, July 2005 [PDF 2 pgs]

Spotlights, December 2005. Get to know Britannica's collection of interactive Spotlights, educational materials and multimedia resources on a range of subjects in History, Culture, Literature and Science. [6:13 min. video]

Teacher Resources, December 2005. See how to find resources for teachers and library media specialists, such as Britannica training materials, presentations and newsletters. [4:39 min. video]

Teacher's Guide, Britannica Learning Zone , November 2007, by Hilit Kravitz, Director of Professional Development, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Handout from INFOhio IVDL session. [PDF 1 pg]

Training Tips for Britannica Online School Edition, October 2005 [PDF 2 pgs]

United States & World Geography, December 2005. Become familiar with using Britannica to explore U.S. and world geography, including hundreds of maps and quick facts for states, provinces, countries, continents and oceans. [4:21 min. video]

Using the Britannica Online Workspace, February 2006. [PDF 2 pgs]

Web Passport Workbooks, an innovative workbook series designed by Britannica to help teachers weave the Internet into the classroom.

What's New - Product Updates

August 1, 2006 - Britannica's Academic Content Standards Feature

July 11, 2006 - Britannica's Advanced Search Feature

July 3, 2006 - Save Your Research Project in Britannica's Workspace

Britannica Online School Edition is funded through an LSTA grant to Libraries Connect Ohio, a cooperative effort by Ohio's three library networks and the State Library of Ohio to provide a core collection of electronic resources to all Ohio citizens.

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Last Updated on November 9, 2007

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