Product Update for Britannica Online
School Edition
January 17, 2005INFOhio relays this message from Encyclopaedia
Britannica and is not responsible for the content or the reliability of Web links. Your
INFOhio username and password may be needed to open some links.
Hello Ohio School Librarians,
| New home pages for Britannica Online School Edition --
available for preview for the last several weeks -- are now INFOhio's default settings.
From the INFOhio home page: |
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Use the Resources for Grades K-6 button for a direct link to Britannica
Elementary for elementary students and up. |
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Use the Resources for Grades 4-8 button for a direct link to Compton's
by Britannica for middle school students and up. |
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Use the Resources for Grades 9-12 button for a direct link to Encyclopaedia
Britannica for high school students and up. |
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Use the Core Collection button for a direct link to the main Britannica
Online School Edition page that allows searching on all three encyclopedias and
additional resources. |
Training
Materials
There are Britannica
flyers and a PowerPoint presentation that you can use to share the new Britannica with
your school. You can download these materials from the Britannica training Web page http://corporate.britannica.com/training (Choose the level
right for your students.)
More Info about
the New Britannica Features
Special new home
page features: Animal of the Day and Activity of the Day for elementary
school, Important People and Big Events for middle school, and selected
articles from New York Times on the Web for high school.
| Search results and
encyclopedia articles direct students to age-appropriate materials in an even
easier-to-read format. Special new features... |
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The Britannica Student Encyclopedia is now called by its rightful
name, Compton's Encyclopedia by Britannica. |
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The Britannica
Internet Guide is now called by a more appropriate name, The Web's Best Sites. |
| Reminders of other key
Britannica features... |
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Use the Quick-Click
Dictionary to look up word definitions; just double-click any word in Britannica
Online School Edition. |
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Explore Britannica's
great collection of student activities and teacher resources by clicking the Learning
Materials links in the header or on the home page.
-- Elementary Learning Materials for Language Arts http://school.eb.com/elementary/browse/learning?topic=language_index
-- Secondary Learning Materials for Language Arts http://school.eb.com/eb/browse/learning?topic=language_index |
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You can now go directly
to Britannica's American History and Spanish databases, Annals of
American History and Enciclopedia Universal en Espaņol, by clicking
the buttons for them on the main Britannica search page. |
Please let us know
if you have questions or comments about any of these new features.
Hilit
Kravitz
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Technical
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