Week 2 - Chiltons & Mango

I looked up my 2006 Toyota Corolla LE and clicked on maintenance.  In order to find the complete schedule of maintenance I opened the "Full Chart" list for configuration at the scheduled maintenance intervals.  The Full Chart shows every maintenance that probably should have been done since 5000 miles! There are a lot of service needs at 30,000.  A lot are just inspect and others are replace.

The cabin air filter is to be replaced.  I think it was changed about then.  We had a horrible smell in the car and found out when we took the car to the dealer that mice had packed the cabin air filter full of grain and small pieces of cattle feed.  Before that time we hadn't heard of a cabin air filter...and it was replaced!

The drive shaft bolt is supposed to be tightened at 30,000 miles.  I don't know what the drive shaft bolt is.

Another inspection at 30,000 miles is the exhaust pipe and mountings.  This is a good idea.

It says there were three safety recalls for "certain" 2005-2008 Corollas all dating 2010.  I do remember having the replacement of an engine control module.  The recalls involved 1 - a technical recall; 2 - warranty and labor and 3 - dealer notification.

There is a lot of information about brakes.  I looked at brake fluid and the bleeding (something I have experience doing with our old farm truck!).  The illustrations and instructions are very detailed.

All of the facts and figures on the Chilton Library site would be very helpful when purchasing a used car or trying to repair a car.  We have an old Chilton book that covers our 1976 Mercedes Benz and I know it was used often.  But, with the online version we don't need a big bulky book.  This is a good resource for our library patrons.

In Mango I chose Norwegian (imagine that!).  I learned that it is spoken by 5 million speakers and spoken in Norway. (I am not one of the speakers!)  I chose people and lesson 1 "Who are you?".  It gave me the choice of conversational goals and grammar goals.  I am not sure if I will use Mango.  I don't do well with languages since there isn't anyone else that speaks Norwegian.  The translate feature uses Google Translate.  I use Google Translate with my Norwegian family and friends.  It isn't always a proper translation but it gives me the basic idea of what they are saying.  I do like it for translating from the source language of Norwegian to the target language of English.  There are many words that aren't taught, such as road signs, business signs, etc., and by translating this way I am able to find out what the signs are.  I hope that Mango is used by anyone who wants to learn a language especially since it is available for free from the SD State Library.

Week 1 - World Book

I looked for mammal in World Book Kids and was surprised to find out that an Armadillo is a mammal.  So, I am doing more research on Armadillo. It provides an appropriate amount of information for the ages of World Book Kids.  I like how it tells "How to Cite this Article".  It is never too early to learn to cite!  I can print, save, hear the text read aloud, email, translate to many languages and if I double click it will define a word.

In World Book Student there was more information on Armadillo with greater detail.  I didn't know that they host the bacterium that causes leprosy and that they are used for leprosy research.  This site provides the South Dakota Content Standards.

In World Book Advanced I had to look up Norway.  There are 276 articles, 3 primary sources, 4 ebooks, etc and all are very detailed with complete information.  I like how each section of each article can be printed.  While I was still in the Norway site I had to check out "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.  We stood on that bridge that shows in the painting.

And, in World Book Discover I looked up American Government.  Articles can be translated into many languages for patrons who are not good readers of English.  There are varied articles that apply to many parts of American Government.

And, my own use of World Book Discover is the Citation Builder.  I use it to cite in my college classes and love how easy it is to use.