AEA Digital Library: Digital Videos for Today’s 21st Century Curriculum

Iowa’s Area Education Agencies are pleased to announce that AEA Digital Library – a new video database for Iowa students and teachers – has been added to the list of fabulous Iowa AEA Online resources! AEA Digital Library’s collections offer current and relevant materials for curriculum needs and student learning, both in and out of school. Parents are encouraged to use this access with their children to model and guide good practices for information retrieval and problem-solving. Use the online database username/password assigned to your school. Browse through AEA Digital Library at www.aeadigitallibrary.org. Click here for more information.

Teachers can create a personal account to retrieve teacher support materials. Ask your teacher librarian or call the Heartland AEA library for the AEA Digital Library teacher passkey for your building.

New Iowa AEA Online Databases for 2011-12

Iowa’s Area Education Agencies are pleased to announce the Iowa AEA Online resources for 2011-2012. These resources continue to be provided at no cost to accredited public and non-public PreK-12 schools. Heartland users will find that some past resources have changed or been replaced.

• CultureGrams is a new resource
• SIRS Issues Researcher is a new resource
• Britannica Digital Library replaces World Book
• Gale eResources replaces part of EBSCO
• DEStreaming will not be offered statewide--stay tuned for more information and options for accessing that content

The following databases have been available in the Heartland area for a couple of years, and are now available statewide:

• BookFLIX
• Teen Health & Wellness
• Soundzabound
• Atomic Learning's ATT and 21st Century Skills

Teachers will have more engaging and age-appropriate resources to integrate in their units. Students will have easy access to multimedia and etext for just-in-time learning. Parents will have homework helpers readily available. Workshops on how to integrate these resources in teaching will be offered. Promotional materials for students and parents will be available this summer.

Learn more about available online resources at http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/library/OnlineDatabases.