Teacher and student library accounts through Santa Clara County Library District

We are excited to partner with the Santa Clara County Library District to provide all FUHSD teachers and students a SCC library account. This includes all online resources, including newspapers, databases and e-books.

Students may particularly be interested in resources like:

• Biography in Context – comprehensive information about historical and contemporary figures from throughout time, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Lands and Peoples – an resource for students filled with text and images about countries, cultures, and current events.
• Science Online – presents a broad range of scientific and mathematical disciplines through definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies and experiments.
• Oxford English Dictionary – contemporary and historical meanings and pronunciation of words, using quotations to illustrate usage
• Wall Street Journal Online – comprehensive digital coverage from 1984 to the present
• World History in Context -- scholarly analysis, full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary documents covering events, movements and individuals

Outside of research, the library account also provides ebooks including graphic novels, emagazines, plus streaming movies and music through sources like Kanopy and Freegal. Students also have access to Brainfuse, an online service offering free homework help, live tutoring, test preparation and writing assistance.

Access your free account at http://student.sccl.org. 

Student e-account usernames are in the following format:
S + Student ID + FUHSD  (example: s5101317fuhsd). 
The PIN number for students is birth month and birth day (example: May 1 is 0501). 

Teacher e-account usernames are in the following format:
S + Staff ID + FUHSD  (example:  s1234fuhsd) 

The PIN for staff is 1912

You can find your Staff ID in IC under "local staff number".

Using images legally (and teaching your students )

Teachers and students both use images in a variety of ways, most often to include in posters and presentations as illustrations of concepts or ideas. However, often we just copy and paste the first image we find, without giving much thought to how or whether we have the right to use it. Here are some quick tips to demonstrate for your students, and to model by using them yourself.

First and easiest is to make sure you and your students are aware of the Usage Rights tool in a Google Image search. By clicking on the "tools" button after doing a search, you will open a secondary menu that includes "Usage Rights" (in addition to other helpful limiters like size, color and type). You can then filter all image results with the tag that meets your needs ("noncommercial reuse" is the broadest license category and would cover situations like inclusion in a presentation for a class). 



There are also a number of searchable alternatives that aggregate images that are available for free re-use under Creative Commons licensing. Several of these (Unsplash, Pixabay, Search Creative Commons) are linked on the Homestead Library website, and many more are listed here (from FreeTech4Teachers).

Finally, no matter where you find your images, you should provide as much credit as available. You might include licensing information:


"Dice" by jfh686 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 https://docs.google.com/document/d/10U4JxMPYVBgVgtghkt-sYD4sDBJjZAp_BzQQLsMUdN8/edit
  

Or you might provide a full citation:

Abejaobrera. Pineapples for sale in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, Ghana. Wikimedia Commons. 23 June 2011.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pineapples_for_sale_in_Bolgatanga,_Upper_East_Region,_Ghana.JPG

Here’s the specific information you’ll need to locate when citing an image you found on Google Images:

1. Full name of the image’s creator, such as the name of the photographer or illustrator (if available)
2. Formal title of the image (if available) or a description of the image
3. Name of the website where the image lives (Do not use Google as the name of the website!)
4. Publisher of the website where the image was found on
5. Date this information was published on their site
6. The URL

Be a good model for your students when using images yourself, and your students will follow!