Library Challenge #1

I researched "mountain lion" on the school Kids World Book and found that it had a picture, a video and on the left side there was an outline of the information given.  In the tools at the top of the page I saw there was a place where the article could be read to the reader.  I think smaller children would enjoy the video and having the piece read to them. (My grandson would love this feature!) The Student Edition was on the same format, but was more involved and had more infromation.  It also had the video and the reading of the information, which students would like.  The Advanced Edition had the outline of the information given on the left and lists of related information on the right side.  Because I'm involved with students, I would say this information would be used in the classroom for reports or for people who love knowledge and like to look up information. I noticed that the Discover version was the same version, but was also in French and Spanish and also had the read aloud option.  I think this would be used by foreign exchange students or people who have that language background.  I could also see a classroom teacher using this to help in a foreign language class to help students learn the accents of the language or to learn vocabulary.

The public library version of the World Book had a different cover page, but the information seemed to be arranged in the same fashion as the school versionf for both the Kids and Info Finder. There was the tools section on the top and the outline on the leftt.  They also had pictures, videos and the read aloud option. The Reference Center was similar to the school Advanced version.  The tools were on the top, outline on the left and related topics on the right side.  I could see the classroom teacher using the technology to help  students with research or reports for class.

The visual dictionaries could be used for people to find information on a topic, for students to do research and reports for a class and for class projects.  The Spanish article would be good for someone trying to learn the language on their own, for a Spanish class or for Spanish teachers to assign topics for their students.