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...on the trail of e-Resources

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thanks!

Wrapping up the case of the eResources Challenge I'd first like to say thank you so much for this opportunity and the weekly comments. The personal touch and the ability to follow other bloggers kept me motivated and interested in discovering new ideas. I'd say my biggest discovery was the wealth of information one can find in ArchiveGrid. I had never given much time to exploring this one and was thrilled to see that my investigating ended up at actual exhibits that are still available online. Just using this resource alone as a focus for a research project would be a great experience for older students.

As I visit schools and talk with school librarians or participate in presenting the eResources at inservices and conferences, I will now make sure I include something intriguing from ArchiveGrid. I always advise people to start with just one of the resources, develop a project that integrates it and then move on to the next one rather than try to become an expert in all of them at the same time. The structure of looking at one resource per week allowed me the time to follow my own advice!

Thank you!

1 comment:

Jane Heitman Healy said...

Happy to guide such an enthusiastic participant! :) Congrats on completing the challenge!! Applause, applause, applause!! (Just a note: in general, ArchiveGrid leads only to holders of collections, not necessarily full text or image. Glad you like it, though!) Thanks for coming along for the e-resources challenge ride!