The BadgerLink authentication provider, Auto-Graphics, is upgrading their servers on Thursday, November 12th beginning at 8:00pm, with completion by 6:00 am. BadgerLink resources may be unavailable during part of this time.
If your school performs IP filtering, please add the following to ensure access to the BadgerLink resources remains intact: 69.80.202.64-.127 (69.80.202.64/26).
Contact Us with questions.
The “Into the Book” student website, from Wisconsin Media Lab, is now available in Spanish! Click on Students and select English or Bilingual. Into the Book gives students a chance to test out their understanding of the following aspects of reading comprehension: prior knowledge, making connections, visualizing, questioning, summarizing, inferring, evaluating, and synthesizing.
“Into the Book” is a fun and engaging way for students to interact with their learning experience, now in both English and Spanish. The resource also offers a teaching guide, so educators can easily incorporate “Into the Book” into the classroom.
Get your students into the book today!
The BadgerLink team has had a busy Summer. Here’s what we’ve been up to:
EBSCO has has provided a new resource to BadgerLink, American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955. This resource includes nearly 100,000 dissertations from 1933 through 1955, and is a full image copy of the original print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities.
TeachingBooks.net has just relaunched! TeachingBooks.net equitably gives all readers insights and opportunities that deepen their understanding and joy of the books they read. Search or browse this library of materials about books and powerful resources to support the books you're already reading and teaching.
Now from the TeachingBooks.net homepage, you can more easily browse resources that:
Another feature of the redesign is the ability for school districts to create institutional book lists.If your school is using a reading program with a trade book component, TeachingBooks can easily add a powerful dimension to these books your students are already reading. On "Resources for My Books," scroll down to My Reading Programs and fill out this form to have TeachingBooks.net align their library of resources to your district's specific reading program.
Once you've found resources, share resources through email, text, or a QR code bookmark or flier
TeachingBooks.net also provides professional development! Learn more about their offerings by going to TeachingBooks.net/webinars or Contact Us for more information.
Start enjoying fun and meaningful resources that enliven your literacy program with TeachingBooks.net!
The Department of Public Instruction is preparing to release a Request for Proposal (RFP) to refresh the BadgerLink collection of online research databases. The current collection is available on the BadgerLink website: (https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resources)
We would like to hear which types of online research databases and electronic sources are most valued by all types of Wisconsin libraries, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, state agencies, and the general public. Your responses will help guide our process.
If you are an educator, librarian or state agency staff member, please respond to the survey found here: Educator, Librarian, and State Agency Staff Survey
Members of the general public can also provide their input using the general public survey found here: General Public Survey
This 5 minute survey will close on Friday, September 18th.
BadgerLink now has access to 60,000 videos from the Associated Press, the world's leading news agency! You can access AP videos when you do a search using Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Explora for Everyone, Explora for Middle and High Schools, MAS Ultra, MasterFILE Complete, or Middle Search Plus.
Screenshot Showing AP Videos
Containing footage from 1930 through the present, these AP videos are editorially produced and include primary source footage perfect for your personal research or for the classroom. You can find videos about current and historical events, famous people — including political leaders, celebrities, and athletes — as well as videos related to art, music, literature, science and technology. The videos are also vetted and appropriate for school-age users. This collection is updated regularly with approximately 300 new videos added each month!
To properly view the AP Videos, you should use Chrome, FireFox, Safari, or Internet Explorer 10+. Persistent links to individual AP Videos are not available at this time.
AP Videos will begin appearing in your Explora search results on or after August 1, 2015.
Contact BadgerLink if you have any questions!
EBSCO has released a new addition to Explora, and this one is just for educators! Explora Educator’s Edition highlights content relevant to teachers, including lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources.
Learn about current events and topics affecting educators today and gain quick access to search results on those topics. The resource also features external links to valuable teacher resources like The Learning Network from The New York Times.
Start exploring now!
https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resource/explora-educators-edition
Unfortunately, Flocabulary’s the Week in Rap, a resource provided by the Wisconsin Media Lab, will no longer be available through BadgerLink.
The 2015-2017 state budget reduced funding to Wisconsin Media Lab which forced a reduction in staff and services offered. Wisconsin Media Lab will also cease production of new episodes of Wisconsin-based material such as “Wisconsin Biographies,” “The Ways,” “Into the Book” and others.
Projects currently in the production stage will be finished. In September, Wisconsin Media Lab will release the “Into the Book” website in Spanish. Wisconsin Media Lab will also have a new Wisconsin geography online activity, “Into the Map.” Sign up for the Wisconsin Media Lab newsletter to learn more about these resources (http://wimedialab.org/signup/).
Wisconsin Media Lab will continue to deliver many of the high-quality, cost-free media resources for use in your classrooms and libraries. The following resources and others will be available at WIMediaLab.org and BadgerLink:
Please contact Kristin Leglar at Wisconsin Media Lab if you have any questions.
Visitors to BadgerLink, Wisconsin's Online Library, may have noticed the site looks a bit different. Don't panic, folks! The options and resources you were accustomed to on our previous site are still there. We've just improved functionality and the overall design.
Filter by multiple categories at once (for example, magazine articles for middle school students)
The training page will receive similar improvements in the next couple months. Stay tuned.
Contact us if you have questions, we'll help you get straightened out. We hope you like the new BadgerLink website. Let us know what you think!
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