2. Today’s Workshop will Include..
Overview
Demonstration
Time for Exploration and Questions
3. What is it?
An Aggregator of full-text online
reference books
(encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases,
thesauri, factbooks.etc)
600 Titles from 80+ publishers
Over 3 million entries
More than 300,000 entries
More than 200,000 audio files
Collection grows monthly
APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard Citations on
each entry
7. More Content…
Medical dictionaries (help Holiday Festivals and
with pronunciation) Celebrations of the world
Hutchinson Encyclopedia
Anatomy Atlas
Latino Literature
Dictionary of Literature
CIA Worldfact book
8. Special Features Include…
Unique URL’s
Topic Pages
Resource Links (open door to your other subscribed
resources and online card catalog)
Easy Access to e-Books in your subject area
Concept Map
LibGuides
13. Topic Pages
Specially arranged pages on a particular topic
One stop shopping – allows you to get topic information
from varied reference sources and formats
Example:
Declaration of Independence
DNA
Mid-autumn Festival
14. Scroll down Topic Page to see
Journal Articles, Books, Images, News
and more…
15. Unique URL’s
Use links directly from page on your assignments, syllabi,
reviews, etc. (Mrs. Lynch’s Group Topics)
16. Concept Maps…
Explore a topic visually
Get quick information
Find related terms
Reshape your focus
25. Ideas for applying Credo to Your
Classes/Curriculum…
Paste unique URL’s into Provide Reference Books
homework, syllabus,
curriculum pages. Use Concept Map to initiate
and explore research topics
Use topic Pages to introduce
a topic Use Credo LibGuides to
expand research
Request a topic page be
made Play Six Degrees of
Separation with Concept
Link to primary source Map
documents
Example: Mrs. Lynch’s Group
Work Topics
26. Define Key Words and Vocabulary
Add unique URL’s of common vocabulary to your assignment pages
28. Request a Topic Page
Credo’s Sales Rep has offered
to take Topic Page Suggestions
from us. They have a goal of
adding 1,000 topic pages to
their current collection of
10,000.
See the example of Mid-
Autumn Festival that I
requested for Mrs. Lee’s
Chinese clas
29. Use Credo Books in Your
Syllabus/Curriculum/Lesson
planning
Medicine Examples Business Examples
33. FOR MORE HELP
2-minute How-
to’s http://corp.credorefer
ence.com/support/training Concept Map
/training-videos.html
Find a Book
Advanced Searching
Topic Pages
34. Explore Research Topics
A Comparison of Harry Potter and Macbeth as Tragic Heroes
To what extent does the response to Hurricane Katrina expose social
behaviors revealing that America has not fully achieved African-
American equality
An investigation into the cognitive, biological and social-cultural
aspects of infatuation in human beings.
To What Extent has Society’s View of HIV AIDS been Influenced by
the Media Sources of Film, Television, and Theater?
35. Environmental Systems and
Societies: To what extent
do the environmental
benefits of nuclear power
outweigh the harms of its
waste?
