eTools: Information on Demand

Online reference sources available to all Howard County Public School System students both at school and at home

Grades PreK 12 CultureGrams http://online.culturegrams.com Username: howardcps Password: howardcps

CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on over 200 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

Grades PreK - 12
Discovery Education Streaming is the largest and most current K12 digital video/video clip library available. Stream or download over 50,000 video content clips and 5,000 full video titles which include K-12 curriculum coverage in 6 core subject areas. Video content is correlated to state and provincial standards.

Discovery Streaming http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ Contact school for login info

Grades K - 12
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.

NoodleBib 6 http://www.noodletools.com/login.php Username: HCStudent Password: HC21042

SIRS Discoverer http://discoverer.sirs.com Customer Number: MD1570H Password: 21042

Grades PreK 12 SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities. The full-text articles database consists of articles reprinted with permission, from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and U.S. government documents. Other features include: The World Almanac for Kids, Comptons Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.

Grades PreK - 12
TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials and exciting programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library media center, and home.

http://www.teachingbooks.net/signin.cgi Password: hcpss [e-mail not needed for students]

Grades 2 - 12 World Book Online Reference Center http://www.worldbookonline.com/?subacct=06506 Username: howco Password: worldbook
World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. World Book Online offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web, and other print articles.

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Howard County Library http://www.hclibrary.org

Office of Career and Technology EducationLibrary card and pin number (request a Use your Howard County / Library Media 2012-2013
pin number from the library) to access many online reference sources. To locate the online resources, click on Databases.

Office of Career and Technology Education / Library Media 2012-2013