Kids InfoBits is the perfect educational product for today's young learners. It's a content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. It features a new, modern, graphical interface and improved navigation based on feedback from both our existing customers and student users. The design helps kids explore the product and gain comfort with database searching.
With new full-text proprietary content from trusted sources such as Blackbirch Press®, U•X•L, and more, the information is reliable and geared to fit the needs of today's young learners. Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research – and makes it fun!
The features of Kids InfoBits include:
Access library resources using the new Gale App. If you have an iOS and Android smart phone you are free to use at least 17 Gale information portals, which grants you access to health, business, and legal information. All you need to do is be within 15 km of a public library in Saskatchewan.
Get App here http://support.gale.com/apps/guest.php?page=/apps/index.php
Access to these resources is restricted to subscribing institutions. The links under the corresponding library or school name is for in-library access, and the link beneath the out-of-library term is for home/remote access where available.
Gale supplies posters, bookmarks, and tent cards for many of its databases. The libraries are able to order these items directly from the company.
http://www.cengagesites.com/CL/781/gale-promo-custom-print-materials/
Gale also provides Guided Tutorials using Adobe Capivate for its resources. For the Kid's InfoBits, there are two tutorials describing the resource. One is for students explaining how InfoBits works, and the second for teachers and parents demonstrating the differences in the articles listed after a search.
Gale offers a series of Sample Searches to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biography, science and social studies.
Gale Cengage Learning - Available Training - On-Demand, Webinars and Materials http://www.cengagesites.com/CL/790/gale-cengage-library-training/materials/
