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Heartland AEA 11
6500 Corporate Drive
Johnston, IA 50131
515/270-9030
800/362-2720

Announcing a new ebook collection for grades K-12 (April 2012)

AEA 11 has provided ebooks for elementary students--BookFLIX for three years and TrueFLIX since October 2011. A new starter ebook collection for K-12 is now available. Go to http://www.mackin.com/via and use the online database username and password assigned to your school. More ebook titles will be added for all grade levels through out the year.

Click here for more information, ebook titles, teaching ideas, and lots more!

Added November 1, 2011: TrueFLIX ebooks, http://trueflix.scholastic.com. TrueFLIX includes nonfiction ebooks targeted to readers in grades 3-6. They are interactive and help students understand how to read nonfiction text. Use the online database username/password assigned to your school.

Added October 10, 2011: Posters hightlighting the online databases are now available for display in the classroom and library. Call the Heartland AEA library to request copies. Click to preview a PDF of the K-5 and 6-12 versions.

Eduvision: Check out the Iowa Core videos, best practices in teaching, technology applications/integration and much more.

Click here for handouts for teachers, students, and parents.

Learn360 is an online digital video database. You can search it alone or with the other online databases and library collections in Com Cat.

American History in Video digital video database includes keyword searchable written transcripts that can be viewed beside the video. Create and share video playlists. Learn more.

Copyright Information for Students and Teachers

Just for Teachers

Online catalog (reserve materials) -- Check out and reserve Heartland AEA materials through the Medianet online catalog.

Com Cat -- Search online databases, school libraries, and the Heartland AEA library at the same time with federated searching. Use the online database username/password assigned to your school. The school teacher librarian can interlibrary loan over 1,000,000 materials from other schools.

Online databases -- Search the databases simultaneously with Com Cat or search them individually.

EBSCO mobile interface -- Enter this URL in your smartphone or iPod Touch to search the EBSCO databases: http://tinyurl.com/yj6pyh5

Copyright -- Click here for the four-page PDF brochure Copyright BriefNOTES for Students (updated August 2011).

World of Media -- Read the newsletter online, receive via email, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest instructional materials, resources, and technology to support teaching and learning.

Book rotation -- K-8 teachers register to receive a box of 30 fiction/nonfiction books every five weeks to supplement the school library and classroom collection.

Trade books in math and science -- Find K-8 books from the Heartland AEA library for these strategies: science, math.

Iowa AEA Online -- Click here to download brochures, copyright information, and technical help for some of the online databases etc.

Iowa Educators Consortium (IEC) -- The IEC provides discounts on materials, software, hardware, paper, supplies, and other school items.

Scenario database -- Iowa educators can find or contribute new ideas/lessons to infuse 21st century skills within the Iowa Core. Click here.

Educational technology -- Click here for Web 2.0 and technology ideas for the classroom.

Just for Students

Search better, search faster with Com Cat -- Search the online databases and school libraries at the same time. Use the online database username/password assigned to your school. The school teacher librarian can interlibrary loan over 1,000,000 materials from other school libraries.

Smartphone/iPod Touch -- Enter this URL to search the EBSCO databases on your mobile device, http://tinyurl.com/yj6pyh5

Copyright -- Scroll up to see the link above to Copyright BriefNOTES for Students.