HIT: ELEMENTARY Reference CD's

[Philip Stohrer]

The requests for a hit far exceeded the number of responses!  Apparently
everyone is looking for the same information.  Help us out!  If you are
using a good elementary level CD reference tool, please e-mail me.  I'll
post a follow up hit if there are more responses.
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If you don't have Microsoft's Encarta, it's a must...  It is networkable
and can use the MOLP to buy inexpensive licenses for multiple
workstations...

Gloria Stratton, District Media Specialist PH : (801) 796-3105
Alpine School District                     FAX: (801) 796-3110
490 North State Street, Lindon, UT 84042   E-M: Gloria.Stratton@m.k12.ut.us
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We are a K-6 school on a Novell network with Windows 3.11 and
computers in a lab, in classrooms and media center.  This is our first
year in business but so far we are using Information Finder (World
Book), Print Shop and Microsoft Office.  We have just written a grant which
we hope to use to purchase Primary Source for magazines, First
Connections (Golden Book) for lower grades and possibly The Student Writing
Center.
Hope this helps.
Judy B. Smith***********************judys@comp.uark.edu
K-6 Media Specialist*********** Vandergriff Elementary
2975 E. Township Street *** Fayetteville, AR 72703
"Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
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We have the stand-alone version of the Random House Kids
Encyclopedia. Our primary grade teachers think highly of it. We wanted
to get a networkable version but most of our primary grades have Macs and
the networkable version is only available in Windows.  We have the
World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia on our network. It's good for middle and
upper elementary grades.

trwwhite@tenet.edu
Teresa R. White
Cunningham Elementary Library
4107 Phillips
Wichita Falls, TX 76308
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I'm doing my LMS practicum in an elementary school and the intermediate
students (4th-5th graders) just finished a science unit in the library
searching a variety of print and electronic tools.  Their overwhelming
favorite was the Compton's CD-ROM for accessibility and amount of
information.  The machines at the school are mostly Macs, but they do have
some IBMs in the Media Center. Encarta ran a close second, but it was the
sound and pictures that endeared them rather than the amount of information,
etc.

=:)Beth Thompson
LIS Graduate student
University of Kentucky home of the 1996 NCAA Basketball champion Wildcats!
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Philip Stohrer
Portage West Middle School
Portage, Michigan
pstohrer@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu   http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer