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Yikes – lice!
In the nursery, we dealt with rotavirus and the ubiquitous runny nose. In preschool, it was mostly colds, with a little bit of hand, foot, and mouth disease thrown in to mix things up. Since my oldest daughter started kindergarten this year, we have a new contagion to worry about – lice!!
Internet Searching 2: Google rocks!
Everyone starts their research with Google, right? In my last post, I mentioned that I always start with Google, and talked a little bit about clarifying search terms to make my search as successful as possible. Searching is definitely an acquired skill; having a good general vocabulary as well as a good grasp of terminology in [...]
Internet searching trends
The first step to finding relevant information is to determine the appropriate questions. According to graduate schools in information or library science, the reference interview is the key. Librarians talk to their patrons and help them clarify their research problem, ideally keeping the questions narrow enough to avoid being deluged with too much information but broad enough to [...]
Gifted Education in Elementary School
To recap, my last post detailed my daughter’s initial screening for entry into her elementary school’s gifted program. Our county school district web page (in Florida) was not helpful. I did some Internet research and found the results to be informative, but extremely varied and contradictory. Here are a few web sites that I used [...]
Gifted – what does that mean????
My daughter is in kindergarten, and was recently referred for an initial assessment for eligibility to the gifted program at her elementary school. The screening is called Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT). I asked her how she liked the first evaluation, and she said she was a little bit shy, but that she knew the [...]
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