Thursday, February 12, 2015
World Book--Foreign Language
World Book Foreign Language was difficult for me. I did the challenge in Spanish, even though I have no background in it. I did the initial search by typing "house" in the search box. Various illustrations were displayed. There is information regarding different types of homes whether they are houses or apartments, and some history of home and community. Second we were to go to modules home page and notice the boxes with images. I clicked the images and search by pointing my search toward "homes". This was a bit more difficult. I started with the photo of people, but found that to display photos of families, people, and groups of communities. I then clicked on communities photos. This was more difficult to find "houses". If there was a translation opportunity, I could not find it. I finally found the area where "houses" were addressed. The challenge asked; "when would it be better to use the search box? When would it be better to use browse feature?" I think if you have a specific search that is quite specific without any amount of generality, the search box is the beginning point for you. But if your search word is quite general and encompasses a larger, less specific term, the boxes are great for your search. While not knowing spanish, it is interesting to see the commonality in some languages.
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The foreign language encyclopedia is a challenge when you don't know the word in the language you are searching. If you try searching the Spanish word for house (casa) you will get relevant results.
ReplyDeleteOne of the nice WorldBook features is as the librarian, you could do a search in WorldBook Kids for house, go into that article and then at the bottom of the page, you have the option to go to the Spanish or French language version--so you could help a foreign language patron without needing to know the language.
Hope this helps! Thanks for your post,
Julie