Teacher Leadership Orientation Course Site

Exploring Teacher Leadership

Teacher Leaders Network
http://www.teacherleaders.org

Center for Teacher Quality
http://www.teachingquality.org/teacherleadership/main.htm

Resources for Teacher Leadership
http://cse.edc.org/products/teacherleadership/

Teachers Count
http://www.teacherscount.org/teacher/topic/topic-rogers.shtml

Trends & Issues: Articles from ERIC
http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/rolelead/selected_abstracts/teacher_leadership.htm

 

Using Blackboard to see the classes your professors have set up for you in this electronic notebook environment.

Blackboard Login Page

Blackboard Help

MTL Program Blackboard "Teacher Leadership"
You will be automatically enrolled on this page as soon as your computer account is assigned.

Using Bluenet to access your student account or see your class schedule.

Bluenet Login Page

New to WebAdvisor
Follow these four steps to log in for the first time.

1. Get your user ID
2. Reset your password
3. Check your e-mail to receive your password.
4. Log in

 

Elmhurst College Site. Here you can forward your email:

http://public.elmhurst.edu/elmhurststudents

Access to Squirrel Mail which you can use anywhere you have internet access:

https://linux1.elmhurst.edu/webmail/src/login.php

 

 

Using Electronic Databases:

You can also access the databases listed clicking by using WebFeat

 

ERIC via EBSCO
is a key source for education information. Allows users to access articles from scholarly as well as professional periodicals, in addition to ERIC documents. Many articles are available in full-text, and links to full-text ERIC documents are available.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia aimed primarily at elementary and middle school students.

Literary Index
An online index to the entirety of the approximately 130 print Gale products, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Short Story Criticism. There are nearly 150,000 authors and 200,000 titles indexed.

Literature Resource Center
Combines a variety of key literary resources, including MLA International Bibliography,  Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Scribner Writers Series, Twayne's and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

MAS-Ultra, School Edition
Designed for high school libraries, this database provides articles from over 700 popular publications dating back to 1975. Every article is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also includes book reviews, pamphlets, reference books as well as biographies and primary source documents, and an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags. Useful for Education majors.

NoveList
A resource that assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles, from a list of 135,000 fiction titles.

NoveList K-8
A subset of NoveList which specializes in helping children and young adults discover new authors and titles to read.

PsycARTICLES
Includes the complete full text of 46 American Psychological Association (APA) journals as well as 11 from allied organizations. Coverage from 1985-present.

PsycINFO
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. There are 2,000 titles dating back to 1805. Linked full text is available.

Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing for over 280 of the most popular education trade journals. Linked full text is available.

Credo Reference
An online collection of reference books, containing the full text of titles covering a wide range of subjects, from art to technology. All xreferplus titles can also be accessed through I-Share.

Using APA Style

American Psychological Association's APA Style Help Site
http://www.apastyle.org

Purdue University APA Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html#other

University of Wisconsin APA Style Help
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html

Writing and Citing from the A.C Buehler Llibrary Website http://www.elmhurst.edu/library/ecresources/writecite.html


Campus Information

General Graduate Program Information
http://public.elmhurst.edu/graduate/

Computer Services
http://acl.elmhurst.edu/

Financial Aid

Here are the two people you can always contact regarding financial aid or payments:

Maxwell, Ms. Katherine (Kathy)
Assistant Dir., Fin. Aid
Office of Financial Aid
Student Employment Coordinator
Office: Goebel Hall, 106
Phone: (630) 617-3079
Fax: (630) 617-5188
E-mail: kathym@elmhurst.edu
Pusich, Ms. Ruth (Ruth)
Director, Financial Aid
Office of Financial Aid
Office: Goebel Hall, 106A
Phone: (630) 617-3080
Fax: (630) 617-5188
E-mail: ruthp@elmhurst.edu

 

Tuition and Payment Plans
http://public.elmhurst.edu/registration/1307107.html

 

This page was created by Donna Goodwyn, Associate Librarian and last modified September 2008 by Donna Goodwyn.