LibGuides: EDUC 2301 Academic Support: Search

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Texas SPED Support
Discover special education and from experts in the field.
TEA Special Populations Resources
Gifted/Talented Teacher Toolkit
TEA Educator Preparation Program

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Classroom Instruction Videos and Sample Observation & Feedback Calibration Activities
T-Tess Resource Library

Teaching Commons This link opens in a new window
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.
TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books.
To explore additional content, student and educators can create an account for free.
Educator's Reference Complete This link opens in a new window
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text scholarly research and information on all areas of education and all educational specialties, such as: multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, and related social issues. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals and the full text of 750+ journals. Full text of 80+ books also available along with full text for education-related conference papers.
The Teaching Professor This link opens in a new window
There are two ways to access the latest content or browse the archives:

1. On-campus, or when connecting via IP: go to www.magnapubs.com to view our group subscription content. If connected from an IP from your institution, you should see an option "Group Access" in the blue bar at the top of the page. Click Group Access to view the subscriptions currently available. It is not necessary to create an account or log in to access the subscription on-campus.
2. To access the group subscription from an off-campus computer follow the steps below.

To register and log in to access the group subscription:
1. Go to https://www.magnapubs.com/register/. Enter information in the required fields > Submit. NOTE: if you get an error that your password does not match, skip down to the EXISTING USERS Section below
2. Once successfully registered, you will see a screen "Thank you for completing your registration"
3. Go to https://www.magnapubs.com/profile/join-sitelicense/18158c0e45156638be26529f70530d0b
4. On the right side of the page, in the "Username or email address" box, enter the email address that you submitted in Step 1.
5. Enter your password > Login
6. On the My Account page > Join Team
7. On the My Online Access page click the appropriate orange "Go to..." box for access
http://www.magnapubs.com/
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Covers multiple topics including the hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business. Includes the New York Times from 1985 to the present as well as the London Times and Financial Times. Covers 1980 to present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Important scholarly journals delivered as high quality page images and articles downloads are in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to current year depending on each journal's publisher. Subjects include: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics.
Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
Search all Gale databases at once!
Discovery: search the catalog and more This link opens in a new window
Your all-in-one search tool to find books, media, articles, and more.

A-to-Z List & Subject List of Search Tools See a list of all library search tools organized alphabetically and by subject area.

Claude.ai
Claude is a next-generation AI assistant for your tasks, no matter the scale.
ChatGPT
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges. GPT has become the internet’s best-known AI language-processing model. The initials stand for generative pretrained transformer. That’s not a very descriptive title to the non-AI person. OpenAI developed the hot new model of text interface, ChatGPT.
MagicSchool
Free for Teachers! AI by teachers for teachers, "drawn from research-based best practices, feedback from educators, as well as our own experiences in the classroom, to create tools that will save time on repetitive, tedious behind-the-scenes tasks that only teachers understand require tons of effort… things like generating relevant content, writing IEPs, differentiation, creating assessments, and supporting school discipline."
KhanMigo
For teachers! Meet Khanmigo: your free, AI-powered teaching assistant.
Brisk Teaching

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