An ongoing look at partner publishers available through GVRL
By Geoff Schwartz
Rourke Educational Media (Rourke) has been publishing eye-catching, engaging nonfiction children’s books that comply with national curriculum standards since 1980.
Schools
Snow, Rain, Hot, Cold – Is there a theme here?
Did you know…climate change is a priority for the President.
Featured Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR
An ongoing look at partner publishers available through GVRL
By Geoff Schwartz
Since 2001, Cengage Learning PTR has been publishing how-to books on the most popular fields and hobbies in the media technology realm and beyond.
Product Updates: New In Context content for 08/18/14
Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of August 18th, 2014.
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Sounds like slogging…
Did you know…blogging is a great way to help students learn how to communicate effectively, respect others opinions, and engage others in the conversation.
Product Updates: New In Context content for 08/04/14
Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of August 4, 2014.
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When a Question Reveals a Collection
Ms. Valentine, do you have a book on the Greek alphabet?
Why, yes. Yes I do.
It’s Camp Read a lot time, and I can hear children at the picnic table, their voices raised to that particular shrillness that usually means an argument is about to boil over. There’s activity over at the fishing pond, too – but I don’t have a line of direct sight to the lines to see if anyone is swinging them…ah, no swinging yet. But I have, I estimate, about forty seconds to help you find a book on the Greek alphabet. After that, who knows what will happen with the fishing lines and the picnic argument.
You walk over to the foreign language collection in the 400s, perhaps the shelf I am prouder of than any other in this collection of 14,000 items. I built it from nothing, almost. We needed materials for our ESL students.
Product Updates: New In Context content for 07/28/14
Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of July 28, 2014.
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Teens & Tech
Teens are among the most creative users of technology, in part because they don’t share adults’ assumptions about how things are supposed to work.
Oh, the games we play!
Guess what? Games are becoming a common part of the classroom, and we don’t mean secretly playing Tetris on a calculator during math class.