• NC Wise Owl is a educational resource. NC Wise Owl allows school students to  have access to a collection of online resources for use in educational pursuits. NC Wise Owl offers Quality - Information that is reliable and appropriate for use in the K-12 education field. Safety - Using NC Wise Owl for online research places students in a safer, advertising-free environment with age-appropriate information and tools that assist students with the research process.


    NC Wise Owl resources are available anywhere that Internet access is provided.

    Our school has access to NC Wise Owl for free. These resources include Britannica School, Citation Maker, K-8 eBooks,Newspaper Source Plus, Primary Search, PBS Videos, and so much more. Please take advantage of this great resource tool. 
     
    The website is: http://www.ncwiseowl.org/ 
    If you are on campus you don't have to login in. If you are off campus you do have to login and the password is: ncwiseowl17 ( no spaces)

     

    TouchCast -is an entirely new way to experience video. Embed web links, documents, pictures
    and more into video presentations. Make video completely. Touchcast offers a full hands-on
    experience.
    Cost: Free
    Features:
    Templates
    Easy to use options
    Interactive
    Content can be created online or through Touchcast App
    Created content can be share via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets.
    Issues/Problems: Available only on iOS

    Hoopla Digital- Lets users instantly borrow free digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7
    with their library card. It also allows users to borrow hundreds of thousands of movies, full
    music albums, and audiobooks. Hoopla is a revolutionary digital service made possible by your
    local library.
    Cost: Free
    Features:
    Simple to access and use
    No hassle of having to return the items you’ve borrowed
    Web-based & App-based
    App is available for iOS & android
    Issues/Problems:
    You have to sign up for a library card at your local library first.
    Not available at all libraries.

    ProQuest SIRS® Discoverer® is a multidisciplinary database for elementary and middle school
    learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas content sets such as current
    events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology.
    Cost: Contact ProQuest Account manager to request pricing
    Features:

     All newspaper, magazine and reference content is 100% full text
     Indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality domestic and international sources.
     9,000 educational web links, and reference materials such as the Compton’s by
    Britannica encyclopedia and DK Eyewitness books.
     User-friendly Advanced Search features
     grade level reading
     article read-aloud and language translation
     age-appropriate article summaries
     automatically generated citations
    Issues/Problems: Only available via subscription