1 - Edumacation advice? / 2 - Fandom is Everywhere!

[tzikeh]

1 - Edumacation advice?

Oh, Great Flist full of intelligent people, many of whom work in edumacation, where might I find some online journal articles with subjects such as "Teaching Writing to the Gifted Child in Public High School" or "Solutions for Gifted Writing Students in the Overcrowded Classroom" or such-like? This is for my very very last project for this semester, and if you could help me, I'd be indebted to you like I am indebted to the Stafford Loan people.

2 - Fandom is Everywhere!

Tomorrow night, pipsqueaky and I and our friends P&J are going to a free screening of Battlestar Galactica's mid-season finale at the Landmark Century Cinema here in Chicago. We are going to be sitting in in a dark theater, with stadium seating and THX sound, surrounded by BSG fans, watching the finale twenty-five hours before the rest of you rubes. There will probably be some popcorn involved.

Then, on the midnights of January 12th and 13th, The Music Box Theatre (the last of the great old moviehouses in Chicago) is having a sing-along Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I may have to bring my Killer Bunny Puppet for "I've Got a Theory".

I am very much enjoying this mini-trend of showing tv episodes at movie theaters.

Comments

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

There's something called the E.R.I.C. database - I'm sure it's online now (it wasn't when I was in college) that is an annotated list of educational journals. You'll probably need to go to a university library to actually *get* the journal, but it'll tell you what where to find what you need.

And OMG, are there still BSG tickets available???

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Here's the link I meant to include in the first post...

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal

Turns out some entries have the full text available... others still just live the journal the article was published in.

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Does your university's library website list google scholar in their list of journal indexes/databases?

I ask because if your U has a clue and you come in through your U's website, you pick up their proxy server permissions and you'll get access to oodles of content that you'd otherwise have to pay for.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm - I don't know, but I will check it out! This is my first semester, so I don't know all the goodies yet.

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

OMG! Sing-along BUFFY! How AWESOME!!!

[semielliptical]

Seconding the recommendations of ERIC and Google Scholar. ERIC is the largest research database for education related material. The free site is fine, but check your university library's web site for an ERIC link, too. If they have a subscription to ERIC it probably includes more free full-text articles than you would get through the free site.

In Google Scholar you can go to Scholar Preferences and search for your library in the Library Links. If your university library isn't there, tell them they should be!

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hope you enjoy BSG very, very much. (Altough I hadn't realized we were that close to the mid-season -- that sucks!)

:::wishes you a delicious scene with your BSG OTP:::: (I don't have an icon, but you know who I mean.)

[vass]

Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development looks useful.
They have journal abstracts and sample articles.

[furies.livejournal.com]

i always check main databases - that your school should have - like jstor and social sciences abstracts and well, psycinfo actually has a lot of stuff on this subject (i know because it came up during one of my many non-productive lit searches). but the cool thing about jstor and SSA is that it will often link you to articles in sociology and anthro and other fields (though i know education journals are included in both) and so you get articles you might not otherwise find. and if it's on jstor, then you automatically get the articles - i think the same is true of SSA, but it's definitely not of psycinfo - you have to hope your school subscribes to the journals.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

ERIC sounds like your engine. If you can't access, holler my way tomorrow. My school's library has it, I believe. You could also try the MLA index, but that's less likely. I did a search in ERIC on "Gifted," "Writing," and "Secondary," and came up with 206 results, so I'd say you're good there.