CVC Library Guidelines (know the rules!)

World Book Encyclopedia Online - go to the Visalia Learning Center and click on World Book Online.  Ask your librarian for the password.

Fact Cards - Information about California, The United States, The World and much, much, more.  Go to the Visalia Learning Center and click on Fact Cards.  Ask your librarian for the password.

RESEARCH HELP:

Excellent ONLINE Data Bases from your public library

Avoiding Plagiarism

Checklist for avoiding plagiarism

How to take notes to avoid plagiarism

Public and COS libraries, times open, and phone numbers

How to take notes for research

How to set up a bibliography card

How to write a rough draft

How to cite a web page

Works Cited - example page

Online Citation Tools:  Easy Bib     Knight Cite     Landmark's Citation Machine

Use The Owl at Purdue University  to give you the latest MLA citation and style guide and research tips

FREE word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation editor, etc.

Download on your home computer: Open Office

note:  file formats get tricky!

Open Office is capable of opening and saving in MS Office formats, but MS Office is NOT compatible with the default file format in Open Office.  If you want to be able to open and edit your document on a computer with MS Office, you can't save in the default format.

Cyber Safety Information

e-mail password handout

Posting On-Line - PowerPoint example

Mr. Gilbert's research assignment on Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco 

-use the following websites to find your information.

http://teens.drugabuse.gov/facts/index.php   Get the facts, find the real facts fast on how different drugs affect the brain and body.

http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/Drug_Guide/  Drug Guide by name or slang.  What does it look like, How is it used, What are the short term effects, What are the long term effects

www.streetdrugs.org  picture, slang name, how it is used, effects

Criminal Justice: Illegal Drugs  web site for an online criminal justice degree.  This is a resource they have.