What’s New

Mango

Scott Wright

Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.

Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you’ll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you’ll know how they’re used in practical situations and conversations. You’ll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you’ll learn how to communicate.

Choose from a number of languages, including: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and English for speakers of Polish, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese.

Ready to begin? Grab your library card and click here to set up your personal Mango account.

Khan Academy

Scott Wright

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We’ve also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.

Open Education Database

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Looking for free, college level lectures and courses?  Check out the Open Education Database (OEDB.)  This resource connects learners to thousands of free online courses.  Many of these classes are offered by leaders in the educational community, such as UC Berkeley, MIT, and Yale University.  Learn at your own pace with these free, easily accesible courses.

Consumer Reports

Scott Wright

Evaluations of new products and comparisons between products, that are released by the magazine, Consumer Reports. This resource is accessible from home with your Dexter District Library card.  If you have a Library Card that begins with 29082, you will need to get a new card from the Library before you can use this resource from home.  Come to the Library and we will supply you with a new card free of charge.

Consumer Reports is provided through financial support from the Friends of the Dexter District Library.

Dexter Community Information

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Video courtesy of Rob Ewing and Ewing Pros, Realtors

Community groups listed below without a Web site do have a phone number for reference.

If you have a community group to suggest for this list, please contact Paul McCann, Director, via e-mail at pmccann@dexter.lib.mi.us.

Suggestions will be reviewed and added to the list based on appropriateness.

Wi-Fi Printing – Android

Scott Wright

INSTALL

1. Open the Google Play Store, search for and install the SmartALEC app.  Don’t open it yet.
2. Turn on SmartALEC printer in the Android settings.  Note:  If you don’t have a menu option for “Printing”, try looking under “More Connection Settings”

LOG IN

1. Open the SmartALEC app.

2.  Sign in with your Library Card number & Pin or Visitor’s pass & pin.  DO NOT USE “Guest Sign In”

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Read/Scroll past the Terms of service and press Accept

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Press the Home (circle) button on the bottom of your phone’s screen to minimize SmartALEC

PRINT

1. Open the document/picture you want to print.

2. Select Options (…), then Print.  If you don’t see print listed in the options, look for it under “Share”

3. Select the “SmartAlec Printer” if it is not already selected

4. Push the small printer icon to send the print job to the release station:

 

 

 

 

 

5. Collect your print job from the print release station