{"id":105124,"date":"2020-03-20T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?p=105124"},"modified":"2020-03-20T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:40:06","slug":"ed-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/news\/2020\/03\/20\/ed-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring educational databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bu.edu\/az.php?s=74037\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-105125\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/education-dbs-news-505x636.png\" height=\"379\" width=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/education-dbs-news-505x636.png 505w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/03\/education-dbs-news.png 586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>With the children out of school due the COVID-19 outbreak, many teachers and parents are finding the time is right for locating online lesson plans.\u00a0 So many are sharing their resources and time via social media as well: check out kids&#8217; author Mo Willem&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2020\/03\/16\/mo-willems-is-hosting-a-livestream-doodle-starting-today\/\">lunch doodles!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Pickering Library <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/pickering-educational\/research\/guides\/\">education research guides<\/a> also have some <strong>Lesson Plans and Activities<\/strong> listed within the Websites section included on each guide.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, for the Boston University community there are more than 30 great <a href=\"http:\/\/library.bu.edu\/az.php?s=74037\">databases for education research<\/a> available through the Pickering Library:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>major <strong>education news sources<\/strong> like\u00a0<em>Education Week<\/em> and the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>streaming video sources<\/strong> like <em>Academic Video Online,\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<em>Kanopy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection<\/em>, and <em>Sign Language Acquisition<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>research literature discovery tools<\/strong> such as <em>APA PsycINFO<\/em>, <em>SPORTDiscus<\/em>, and <em>Social Sciences Citation Index<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unsure about which to choose?\u00a0 You can visit the education databases page, hover your cursor over one of the &#8216;i&#8217; icons next to the database name, and you&#8217;ll get a brief description.\u00a0 You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/askalibrarian.bu.edu\/\">Ask A Librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the children out of school due the COVID-19 outbreak, many teachers and parents are finding the time is right for locating online lesson plans.\u00a0 So many are sharing their resources and time via social media as well: check out kids&#8217; author Mo Willem&#8217;s lunch doodles! Our Pickering Library education research guides also have some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105124"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105253,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105124\/revisions\/105253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}