The Media Services Department has a wealth of media resources for use in your classroom. Please check the great resources listed and described below. They are easily accessed by using the links provided.
All Region XIV schools have access to:
1. Van Pick-up and delivery;
2. Education kits and materials;
3. Discovery Education Streaming;
4. GALE;
5. EBSCO Information Services;
6. Britannica Online.

Region XIV is proud to provide United Streaming and Gale at no cost to every school in Region XIV during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

"Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards. Find out what more than 30,000,000 teachers and students already know -
Discovery Education streaming works."

For your school's passcode, please e-mail rssmith@esc14.net.

Discovery Education Streaming

During the 2008-2009 school year, Region XIV districts have access to the Gale resources.

"Gale® (gale.cengage.com) is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform."

GALE

The EBSCO and Britannica Online K-12 Database programs are funded by the state (Rider 88, 80th Texas Legislature) and are available at no cost to public schools and public charter schools.

Online Databases

This program is a partnership between the Texas Education Agency, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and Education Service Center, Region 20. Each district or school will need to complete an online activation form to access the database web.esc20.net/k12databases/activation.htm.

EBSCO Database

Britannica Online was added to the K-12 Database program on December 1, 2007. Britannica Online School Edition gives teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language.

Britannica Online

Instructional Recipes (Lesson Plans) for Britannica and Ebsco:

web.esc20.net/k12databases/training.html#Recipes

To browse Region 14’s Workshop Catalog Click Here.

Sheri Mitchell, Media Clerk
Phone: 325-675-8651
E-mail: smitchell@esc14.net
Robb McClellan, Director
Phone: 325-675-8681
E-mail: mcclellan@esc14.net
Russell Smith, Consultant
325-675-8647
rssmith@esc14.net