A CHS Student Speaks About Using the Gale Student Resources App on the iPad

Student access to resources anytime and anywhere is one of my favorite aspects of being in the library/media profession.  Offering useful academic electronic resources to students via a variety of mobile devices enables students the opportunity to access resources regardless of where they are.  One of these useful Apps is the Access My Library (AML) - School Edition that Gale Student Resources offers.  This app is available for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.  It extends the resources that the school media center already owns and puts them into the hands of students 24/7. 

Below a Copley High School student talks about using the Gale Student Resources on the iPad.  It's fairly simple to use...just download the app onto a device, find your school library, and enter the password (which the media specialist at your school can provide), and then it will bring up the databases and eBooks that are available at your school.  A power search can be conducted (which searches all the available ebooks and databases) or a search can be limited to one database at a time.  I have no connection to Cengage Learning (who provides Gale Resources), but I have found their resources to be very valuable for student research, and there are many of our students who freely admit that they would rather use the Gale Student Resource database than Google because of the quality resources that they consistently discover.

As mentioned, one of our high school students explains how to use an educational app on the iPad on the following video.  The video is loaded on Google videos, so if your school blocks Google videos, you will need to view the video on an unfiltered Internet connection.