Are All Wiki's Wicked?
Using Wikis as Tools for Powerful Teaching subtitle
Faculty Inservice presentation - January 13, 2009
presented by Robert Benson, Cathy Martin, Nichole MacInnes and Ollie Nolan
About TEL
The Tennessee Electronic Library is a suite of 34 research databases freely available to all Tennessee students, teachers and residents. Databases provide information on current events; literature; health; science; social science; newspapers; genealogy; and standardized test practice. Databases provide age-appropriate information for grades K through 12 and older.
You can access TEL databases through your local school, college or public library. Find your library's access here.
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Get ideas on how to use TEL databases in your classroom
Databases of Interest
- Kids InfoBits [about]
- Junior Edition K-12
- Student Edition K-12
- What Do I Read Next? [about]
- Informe
- Literature Resource Center [about]
- Health and Wellness Resource Center [about]
Try these searches in the TEL Databases
- What are teens favorite foods?
- Who are Bedouins?
- What is a bookmobile?
- What color are tree frogs' eyes?
- What is the Day of the Dead?
- I just read Charlotte's Web. What can I read next?
- My sister is overweight not obese. What's the difference?
- I am reading Pride and Prejudice. I want to know about the universal truth in this book.
- Which Canadian province contains the city of Thunder Bay?
- What field of study is Sigmund Freud famous for?
- What is the Green Revolution?
- Look up the Electoral College 101 article in the Student Edition database.