Media Matters
Martin Luther King Jr Middle School
October/ November 2018
Ms. Heine, Media Coordinator
Orientation
Reserving Media Space
More than Language Arts
NC Wise Owl
NCWiseOwl (NC Windows for Online Learning) has been providing online subscription resources for our schools since 1999. Our mission is to ensure that all public and charter school students have access to a collection of online resources for use in educational pursuits, without regard to the economic status of their local school system. NCWiseOwl has three major strengths as an educational resource:
- Quality - Information on the Internet at-large is often unreliable and inappropriate for use in the K-12 education field. NCWiseOwl’s subscription databases provide access to articles from thousands of magazines, from online encyclopedias and reference sources, and from a variety of other sources that are only available to paying customers.
- Economy - By purchasing databases at the state level we are able to achieve an economy-of-scale that saves taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars over the cost of individual school systems purchasing the same resources.
- Safety - Using NCWiseOwl for online research places students in a safer, advertising-free environment with age-appropriate information and tools that assist students with the research process.
The above description is taken from the NC Wise Owl Tool Kit page. I encourage you to use NC Wise Owl with your classes and for your own use, including professional development webinars. No password is needed if you are accessing from the school. However, there is a password I can share with you and your scholars if you would like to use it at home or anywhere there is internet.
This month's highlight from NC Wise Owl is Britannica! The site includes encyclopedias,
e-books, magazines, Web sites, news, biographies, an atlas. The learning is interactive and includes videos, games, articles with graphics and animation. Your students are able to choose the reading level that right for them. See me if you want more information or help.