Media Center


Welcome to the NRHS Media Center Page - this page is managed by the Media Center Director, Mrs. Fontes http://nrhs.nrsd.net/resources/pfontes@nrsd.net  updated April 7, 2008. 

About the Media Center

The Media Center provides a comprehensive collection of print, non-print, and electronic resources. The facilities for students include an excellent reference collection and electronic research tools. Additionally, students have access to new high end personal computers and to the Internet.

Students are welcome to visit the Media Center before school, during their Campus Study periods, and after school  for class assignments, independent research, project development and reading.  When students choose to visit the Media Center, they should be familiar with the Expectations for Behavior in the Media Center.

New!  Check out the new Media Memos Blog!

Nashoba Regional High School Media Center Catalog  (in school only)

Research in NRHS           

 

 

*Help with Homework              * Links to the Virtual Media Center Sharepoint Page

Curriculum Links

 

 

 Staff Resources

 

 

 

Staff Resources

  • AV Checkout (in school only)           
  • How to Reserve Equipment and Computer Labs [PPT]
  • How to Enroll with Discovery Education (UnitedStreaming) [pdf]
  • The Big6 Information Problem Solving Model. The Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in the world. When you apply the Big6 steps, you have an essential framework to approach any information-based question.    

   Research in NRHS and in Computer Labs

Use the following links in school and in the NRHS Library Media Center. See Media Center Staff for passwords.

  • Infotrac - provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals. Databases include: General Reference Center Gold, Biography Resource Center, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center.
  • Massachusetts Newsstand  
  • With Massachusetts newsstand, you will receive the full text of all staff-written news features from twelve Massachusetts newspapers.
  • Discovery Education (Unitedstreaming) is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. Note: you can download clips to use with PowerPoint and MovieMaker.
  • Grolier Online (3/04) Grolier Online provides access to the Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, the New Book of Knowledge and Lands and Peoples
  • New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians The most authoritative source of information about music and musicians.
  • Grove Art Online - Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.   
         

      Daily Life Through History is an online sourcebook series offering a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history

  •  Literary Reference Center - Full-text broad spectrum of information on 1000's of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes 27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic texts, 4000 author interviews and more.

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HELP WITH HOMEWORK SHAREPOINT SITE

Use this link to access NRHS online information resources from home:

http://web.nrsd.net/schools/nrh/media/default.aspx new

Need More Help?  Go to http://www.massanswers.org/! 

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Curriculum Links

Gateway sites that will lead you to many other information-rich web pages:

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Links by Subject Area

  • Writing                              

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Writing Resources

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

  • OneLook Reverse Dictionary  Type in a definition, and the dictionary will tell you which word you are trying to think of.                                       
  • Bartleby.com Reference  Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the World Wide Web.
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Reading Suggestions

Looking for a Good Book to Read?

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Literature

  • List of Gale Literary Criticism title and volumes in the NRHS Media Center [pdf]

 

 

 

 

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Social Studies

  • American Memory This site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
  • America's Story - fascinating facts and gleanings from the history of the United States
  • THOMAS - legislative information including the Congressional Record, historical documents and the text and status of legislation

 

  • InfoNation Statistics and information for students about each of the Member States of the United Nations.

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World Languages

  • Learn Spanish                                             

 

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Science

  • Nobel e-Museum: The official website of the Nobel Foundation              
  • The Book Page - provides free on-line classic and not-so-well known books, articles and more.

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Fine Arts

 

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Mathematics

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Health and Physical Education

  • Medline Plus : Online medical information from the US National Library of Medicine
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