Links of Interest

Who makes your iPhones?  http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-child-labor-2012-1

Merry Christmas!

Friday, December 16, 2011

B1:  Charity Basketball games: Bring your dollar for entry.
B2: Computer lab to work on web evaluations and PowerPoints.

Links of interest:
Web Evaluation Sheet  ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc 

Here is the first paper we did on the Internet, using search engines and databases to find possibly useful websites:  Research on the Internet Revised.doc.  

Below is a template you could use for your celebrity powerpoint:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   
It makes your job a lot easier!

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography


Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt  


Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s)
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Life Before Fame
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme  

You may add up to three extra slides.

Important Reminder:  

Students will finish their PowerPoints on January 4 and present them on January 6.

If you don't think you will be ready, work on yours at home. 

If you have extra time, you may play games at 

http://www.fun-with-words.com

Do not go to other sites or programs without asking Ms. Dorsey.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The computer lab is NOT available today.

1. Individual reading time
2. Fluency partners -- Don't forget to fill out your chart, including date and passage, and words read correctly.
3. "What I Can Do on the Computer"  blue worksheet -- filled out and discussed
4. Can I spot reliable web sites?  Can I spot red flags for the unreliable?

Monday, December 12, 2011

Computer lab to finish Web Evaluations -- They are due today.
Template for Web Evaluations:   ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc 

If you are finished with your Web Evaluations and have enough information,  you may begin your PowerPoint. 
Below is a template you could use for your celebrity powerpoint:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt

Wednesday:  No lab.
Friday:  Lab for B2
Friday: Charity Basketball games for B1.  Bring your dollars. 

Important Reminder:  

Students will finish their PowerPoints on January 4 and present them on January 6.

If you don't think you will be ready, work on yours at home. 

Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt  

Thursday, December 8, 2011

I. Review of how to do your website evaluation 

 Example: http://charlesdickenspage.com/family_friends.html

 

Get as much done today as you can on your Website Evaluations.

We will be in the computer lab again on Monday, December 12. 
After today you will only have one more time to finish up your website evaluations and get them handed in. 

II. ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc  Open this document and copy it  three times  -- giving it a slightly different name each time.  You will need at least five evaluations together if you are working with a partner -- giving it a slightly different name each time.   (60 Points, due by December 12) 

For each web evaluation, you will
1)  Evaluate the site by answering questions 1-14.

Finding the URL:

• If it is a useful article, copy and paste the URL (web address from the address bar) to the document you've saved to your thumb drive. 

Address Bar

2) Take notes on the site on the page titled "Collect Information for your PowerPoint."
3)  Create and record a bibliographic entry for the site.  Use bibme.org.   Copy it to your notes page at the bottom. 

• We will  continue to work on these next time.   You could also do these from home.   Don't forget to save your work on a thumb drive  if you work at home or at another computer not linked to your school file.  If you are working in Lab 201 or 211 or a keyboarding class, save to your own file as well as to a thumb drive/flash drive. 
• If you are working alone, you will need three of these (each for a different site), and if you are working as a pair, you will need five website evaluations (each for a different site).  
• When you have a website evaluation filled in and have taken notes on it, save it, print it, and have Ms. Dorsey check it off. 

______________________________________________

Create a bibliography entry for each website. 

III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to your web evaluation or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

You will have a substitute today because Ms. Dorsey will be attending the Teaching American History Academy at our district office.

You will not go to the computer lab today.

1. Self-Starter:  Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.
2.  Partner Fluency Practice

3. Answer questions for Getting Ready to Read
4. Read a story (and listen) and Answer Questions

"User Friendly"  If you were absent, answer the two questions below, then come at Cave Time or after school to listen to/read the story and to answer two more questions.
Also, if you were absent, don't forget to pick up a pink make-up sheet for individual reading from the tan box near the black class folder crates.

__________________________________________

“User Friendly”

Write legible, clear answers to the following questions.  Continue any of your answers on the back if needed.

Before reading the story:

1. What is your relationship with computers?  Do you have one you usually use?  Do you prefer Macs/Apples or HP/Dell/Etc.?   How do you get along with the computers at school? If computers were people, would they be your friends?  Why or why not? 

2.  If you could invent an ideal computer for yourself, what would it be like?  What features would it have? 

_____________________________________________

Friday, December 2, 2011

In the classroom: 
1. Self-Starter: Worksheet about Vocabulary for Online Computer Databases

2. How to cite World Book and Sirs Discoverer
Look toward the bottom of the page for an already-created bibliography entry!  Just copy and paste it. 
Examples
Christopher Paolini:
"Author's Success Rooted in Family, Landscape." Teacher Magazine. Sept. 19 2008: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 02 Dec 2011.
"Dragon Tales." Washington Post. 06 Nov 2011: Y1. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 02 Dec 2011.

Cech, John. "Paolini, Christopher." World Book Student. World Book, 2011. Web. 2 Dec. 2011.


Another example:
Giannetti, Louis. "Ball, Lucille." World Book Student. World Book, 2011. Web. 2 Dec. 2011.

Computer Lab 201
Today you will sit with your partner, if you have one.

I.  Start out with 
Research on the Internet Revised.doc.   This part was  due last time. Finish it, print it, and hand it in if you haven't.  Open this document and use the links to find usable websites. (30 points, due by end of class today -- Show completed work to Ms. Dorsey.) This will help you use several different search engines to find sources of information about your celebrity.

Once you have at least 5 possible sources for an individual or 8 for a pair,  start evaluating each source by going on to Roman numeral  II.

____________________________________________

Get as much done today as you can on your Website Evaluations.

We will be in the computer lab again on December 8. 
After today you will only have two more times to finish up your website evaluations and get them handed in. 

II. ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc  Open this document and copy it  three times  -- giving it a slightly different name each time.  You will need at least five evaluations together if you are working with a partner -- giving it a slightly different name each time.   (60 Points, due by December 12) 

For each web evaluation, you will
1)  Evaluate the site by answering questions 1-14.

Finding the URL:

• If it is a useful article, copy and paste the URL (web address from the address bar) to the document you've saved to your thumb drive. 

Address Bar

2) Take notes on the site on the page titled "Collect Information for your PowerPoint."
3)  Create and record a bibliographic entry for the site.  Use bibme.org.   Copy it to your notes page at the bottom. 

• We will  continue to work on these next time.   You could also do these from home.   Don't forget to save your work on a thumb drive  if you work at home or at another computer not linked to your school file.  If you are working in Lab 201 or 211 or a keyboarding class, save to your own file as well as to a thumb drive/flash drive. 
• If you are working alone, you will need three of these (each for a different site), and if you are working as a pair, you will need five website evaluations (each for a different site).  
• When you have a website evaluation filled in and have taken notes on it, save it, print it, and have Ms. Dorsey check it off. 

______________________________________________

Create a bibliography entry for each website. 

III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to your web evaluation or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

In Class
1. Steps for your Project
2. How to do the Website Evaluations


Computer Lab 201
Today you will sit with your partner, if you have one.

I.  Start out with 
Research on the Internet Revised.doc.   This part only is due today.  Open this document and use the links to find usable websites. (30 points, due by end of class today -- Show completed work to Ms. Dorsey.) This will help you use several different search engines to find sources of information about your celebrity.

Once you have at least 5 possible sources for an individual or 8 for a pair,  start evaluating each source by going on to Roman numeral  II.

This part only is due today. 

____________________________________________

II. ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc  Open this document and copy it  three times  -- giving it a slightly different name each time.  You will need at least five evaluations together if you are working with a partner -- giving it a slightly different name each time.   (60 Points, due by December 12) 

For each web evaluation, you will
1)  Evaluate the site by answering questions 1-14.

Finding the URL:

• If it is a useful article, copy and paste the URL (web address from the address bar) to the document you've saved to your thumb drive. 

Address Bar

2) Take notes on the site on the page titled "Collect Information for your PowerPoint."
3)  Create and record a bibliographic entry for the site.  Use bibme.org.   Copy it to your notes page at the bottom. 

• We will  continue to work on these next time.   You could also do these from home.   Don't forget to save your work on a thumb drive  if you work at home or at another computer not linked to your school file.  If you are working in Lab 201 or 211 or a keyboarding class, save to your own file as well as to a thumb drive/flash drive. 
• If you are working alone, you will need three of these (each for a different site), and if you are working as a pair, you will need five website evaluations (each for a different site).  
• When you have a website evaluation filled in and have taken notes on it, save it, print it, and have Ms. Dorsey check it off. 

______________________________________________

III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to your web evaluation or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

Lexile Levels

The new state core is moving to the "stretch" band.

Grade Band	Current Lexile Band	"Stretch" Lexile Band
K–1	N/A	N/A
2–3	450L–725L	450L–790L
4–5	645L–845L	770L–980L
6–8	860L–1010L	955L–1155L
9-10	960L–1115L	1080L–1305L

Steps for Your Celebrity Web Project

View this PowerPoint:  Steps for Celebrity Project.pptx

Or just read through the steps listed here:
Order for Doing the Celebrity Web Assignment:
1. Select a celebrity and optional partner.
2.  Use various search engines to find possible sites to use for research. (five for individual and eight for partners)
3a Select sites to evaluate.  Fill out  website evaluation forms for three if you are working alone, or for five as partners. 
3b.  As you complete the website evaluations, also take notes on each site -- finding information you can use when you put together your PowerPoint.
3c. Make sure you prepare a bibliography entry for each source you will use.  
(You should have all website evaluations completed, printed, and checked off by Ms. Dorsey by December 12.)
4.  After you have completed your three or five website evaluations, begin working on your PowerPoint. 
5.  Complete the PowerPoint by January 4.
 

Monday, November 28, 2011

1. Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time -- Pass out logs
2. Crossword about Working with Computers, Internet, Research
3. Fluency Partner Practice
4. Put all papers away in your individual folders


___________________________________________
About the Celebrity Web Assignment

Order for Doing the Celebrity Web Assignment:
1. Select a celebrity and optional partner.
2.  Use various search engines to find possible sites to use for research. (five for individual and eight for partners)
3a Select sites to evaluate.  Fill out  website evaluation forms for three if you are working alone, or for five as partners. 
3b.  As you complete the website evaluations, also take notes on each site -- finding information you can use when you put together your PowerPoint.
3c. Make sure you prepare a bibliography entry for each source you will use.  
(You should have all website evaluations completed, printed, and checked off by Ms. Dorsey by December 12.)
4.  After you have completed your three or five website evaluations, begin working on your PowerPoint. 
5.  Complete the PowerPoint by January 4.



Next time we will work on research and completing web evaluations the sites you use for your celebrity project.
Research on the Internet Revised.doc

Once you have at least 5 possible sources for an individual or 8 for a pair,  Start evaluating each source.


ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc

• We will  work on these next time.   You could also do these from home.   Don't forget to save your work on a thumb drive  if you work at home or at another computer not linked to your school file.  If you are working in Lab 201 or 211 or a keyboarding class, save to your own file as well as to a thumb drive/flash drive. 
• If you are working alone, you will need three of these (each for a different site), and if you are working as a pair, you will need five website evaluations (each for a different site).  
• When you have a website evaluation filled in and have taken notes on it, save it, print it, and have Ms. Dorsey check it off.

Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt 

Here is another sample PowerPoint:  Jack Johnson REV.ppt  

November 21, 2011

Self-Starter:   a. Sign up for the celebrity you wish to research this term.
b.  Read through the worksheet, and see if you can already answer any of the questions.

Plagiarism vs. Synthesis


Reading Strategy:  Determining Importance and Summarizing
Don't try to write down everything.  Take notes on the most important and most interesting information.
Put it into your own words so you aren't plagiarizing, but check to make sure you didn't change the meaning.

Today you will not be able to save work to your own file. There is no way to save work unless you brought a thumb drive/flash drive.

Computer Lab  223 -- Computer lab for Plagiarism exercise
Part I: 
1. Learning about Plagiarism
a. Go to   http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#
b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism.
c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.    To download, after you've used this link Plagiarism Computer Exercise.docx,  or  
 Plagiarism Computer Exercise.doc click on the download tab.



Part II.   

Is this Plagiarism? 

Use the link here  to go to
http://www.loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=196


Answer the questions on the worksheet.

Part III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.  In this case it will be http://www.loislowry.com
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to your web evaluation or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

  http://www.bibme.org/

You need to use bibme to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source that gives them a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. 

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

___________________________________

Part IV. 
If you have extra time, review safe cyberspace surfing at http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/internet_safety.html?tracking=K_RelatedArticle 

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

New Rotation Begins! November 17, 2011

Welcome to my new students!

Rotation 3:  Students will move from Ms. Dorsey's class to Mrs. Fugal's, and from Ms. Gadd's class to Ms. Dorsey's.

Applying Reading Strategies to Computer Literacy, Research, and Presentation

You will be graded on

Participation                             100 points

Website Evaluations                  60 points

Celebrity PowerPoint Presentation 

78 points

View and Evaluate Other Presentations

20 points

Reading Log (reading during individual reading time, then filling out the log)

Points available vary depending on how many times we have individual reading time.

In case you are absent, pick up the pink make-up form.

Partner Fluency Practice Log

Points available vary depending on how many times we have fluency practice.

Various other daily assignments

Completing end-of-semester assessments and surveys 

Term Project Due Dates:

Your web evaluations will all be due by December 12.

You Celebrity PowerPoint is due by the end of class on January  4 and will be presented on January 6.

_______________________________________________________

Thursday, November 17

In the Classroom:

Self-Starter:  Introduction to web project -- Be thinking about  celebrities  (famous people) you would like to learn more about.    --- handout with suggested celebrities
Looking for Celebrities:
http://www.notablebiographies.com/

Rules for Computer Lab -- SG

Handouts   -- Welcome and Overview,  Media Literacy  --  You will be SMARTER!

The Project:
Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt 
The Challenge --- Finding reliable sources!
Looking at Websites: 
http://www.loislowry.com

Finding Sources on the Internet -- besides Google:
Research on the Internet

 In the Computer Lab:

I.  Finding Sources -- Tutorial

Today we will learn about searching the Internet using an interactive tutorial at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/course

1. Go to the above web address (URL) and then  
2. click on START
3. then click on 06 Searching -- See an illustration of the icon below.  Clicking on the icons here will not work.

Illustrations only. Find these icons on the site

 and click on them there. Clicking on these illustrations will not work.

4. then do the Weakest Link quiz,

II.  Finding Sources for your possible celebrity 

5. If you still have time, open this document, and start researching a celebrity you think you might use:
Research on the Internet Revised.doc
Save it in your own file on the school server.  Go to My Computer and look for your student number on an icon.
_______________________________________

Term Project Due Dates:

Your web evaluations will all be due by December 12.

You Celebrity PowerPoint is due by the end of class on January  4 and will be presented on January 6. 

Today's Schedule  w/out CAVE Time

Time	Period	Minutes
8:15 – 9:40	1st Period	85 minutes
9:45 – 11:15	2nd Period/Announcements	90 minutes
11:15 – 11:45	First Lunch	30 minutes
11:50 – 1:15	3rd Period	85 minutes
11:20 – 12:45	3rd Period	85 minutes
12:45 – 1:15	Second Lunch	30 minutes
1:20 – 2:45	4th Period	85 minutes

New Rotation for my "Old" Students

Those of you who have been in Ms. Dorsey's class will go today to Mrs. Fugal's classroom on Thursday, November 17.

Room 230









Don't forget to return any make-up reading sheets you may need to complete.  Also, turn in any end-of-rotation reflections/surveys or other assignments still ungraded. Turn them in before you go to the new rotation.

Keep on Reading!
http://www.schooltube.com/video/e9bd79d29b4d0e6a2345/Gotta%20Keep%20Reading%20-%20Ocoee%20Middle%20School

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Read-a-thon

Bring a book!
If you'd like to, bring treats.
Also, if you'd like, bring a pillow to sit on.


If you didn't hand in the end-of-rotation survey last time, please complete one and hand it in.  Turn in any make-up work before the Thanksgiving Break. 

November 22 is the last day to turn in work for this rotation.

Flash mob for reading!

Friday, November 11, 2011

 1. Individual Reading and Fill out Log
2. Fluency Partner Practice
3.  End of Rotation Survey
4.  11-11-11-11- Short Story

Next time: Read-a-Thon
Bring a book, treats!, pillow?

Happy 11-11-11!
We are reading a story called "Eleven."
Short Story:  Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Computer Lab
Share PowerPoints and Record notes on viewing them.
Hand in notes.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Reading Strategy #1 
Metacognition: Noticing your own thinking.

  IAMNOWHERE!
Story about tennis player
Do you pay attention?  


Practice Noticing Inner Voices
Practice  with article about Internet Safety

Plan, Notice, Adapt
Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!"   

Individual Reading Time with Reading Log

Internet Safety 
Plagiarism? 

Monday, November 7, 2011

We will spend the period in the computer lab to finish the PowerPoints which will be presented next time.
Below is a template you could use for your celebrity powerpoint:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt

 Next time you will present your PowerPoints.  

Our class will meet again on the 11th and the 15th.  
On the 17th you will move to Mrs. Fugal's class --  Room 230. 


If you haven't handed in all of your web evaluations, make sure you do that by the 15th.

Here's the Zombie song.  You can listen to and watch it at home, if you'd like.  It's blocked at school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNqub966Tw&feature=player_embedded

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Computer Lab to finish web evaluations and begin PowerPoints.

Handy links: 
ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc 

bibme.org 


Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt 

Here is another sample PowerPoint:  Jack Johnson REV.ppt 


Look back at this link, if needed: 

Friday, October 28, 2011

Nathan and Natalee, there are helps there for you. 

Jacob and Kade: Here is a source:

http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000092768

 Kaden and Jacob http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000298575

 

Directions for using bibme.org  

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to the last slide of your PowerPoint.

____________________________

You need to use bibme to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source that gives them a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. 

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Today you will have a substitute since Ms. Dorsey will be participating in district meetings all day.  Extra credit is available to students who cooperate with the sub.

Because you have a sub today, we will go to the computer lab next time instead of this time.  

1. Self-Starter:  Pick up your folder and read for twenty minutes.  Don't forget to fill out your reading log.

2. Playing with words. One of the joys of language is playing with words, so today you will participate in an activity with jokes that play with words.

3.  Read/listen to part of a short story by Ray Bradbury -- "The Ravine."

Friday, October 28, 2011

 Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.

Answer questions for Getting Ready to Read
Read a story (and listen) and Answer Questions

"User Friendly"  If you were absent, answer the two questions below, then come at Cave Time or after school to listen to/read the story and to answer two more questions.
B1 got to minute 17:00   They need to finish and then discuss the questions.
B2 finished and discussed questions

Crossword -- If you were absent, ask for it when you return.

Fluency Practice if time. --Not in B1 not B2.

Nathan, here's the link we found:

http://comedians.about.com/od/comediansal/p/gabrieliglesias.htm

Natalee, here is your citation for your article from Pioneer:
"Jobs, Steven." Compton's by Britannica. 2006: n.pag. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 28 Oct 2011.

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“User Friendly”

Write legible, clear answers to the following questions.  Continue any of your answers on the back if needed.

Before reading the story:

1. What is your relationship with computers?  Do you have one you usually use?  Do you prefer Macs/Apples or HP/Dell/Etc.?   How do you get along with the computers at school? If computers were people, would they be your friends?  Why or why not? 

2.  If you could invent an ideal computer for yourself, what would it be like?  What features would it have? 

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Digital Divide

"The digital divide is no longer an issue of access. Instead, there is a widening gap between those who use technology to be entertained and those who are empowered by it." - Blogger Mary Beth Hertz.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-divide-technology-internet-access-mary-beth-hertz?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=digitaldividemarybeth

 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Computer Lab -- Finish up web site evaluations. (Grade goes on this term.)

Print off your  Web Evaluations with Notes when you have finished filling them out. (Don't forget to save each with a different name.)  And please make sure you have put your name(s) on them.


1. ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc  Open the one(s) you're working on, or open a new one for a new site.  Remember to save each one under a different name so you're not saving one over the last. 

2.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography

This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to the last slide of your PowerPoint.

  http://www.bibme.org/


Due Dates:
Print off your  Web Evaluations with Notes when you have finished filling them out. (Don't forget to save each with a different name.

• 2 Web Evaluations with Notes by the end of class on October 18 --extended to October 26.
• 2  more Web Evaluations with Notes by the end of class on October  26  (One for those working alone.)
• Pairs will need to make sure they get the fifth evaluation/notes handed in.
• Have your PowerPoint done by the end of class on November 7.
• PowerPoints will be presented on November 9.

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Celebrity Info:
Who has Steve Jobs?  I just found this article while perusing Facebook.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141656955/new-bio-quotes-jobs-on-god-gates-and-great-design?sc=fb&cc=fp

Pelé    www.notablebiographies.com › Ni-Pe

Monday, October 24, 2011

No computer lab today.

1. Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and Reading Log

2. Using Primary and Secondary Sources:

 Primary and Secondary Sources
Example:
It is 3:05 and you are standing at the corner to cross the street to go home. Two cars collide at the intersection. You saw it happen. Y ou are a primary source. You run into the building to tell the principal. The principal calls the police. The principal is not a primary source- he/she was not there when it happened- he/she is just passing on information they got from someone else. The policeman asks you to draw a little map of where the cars were coming from when they collided. The map is a primary source- it was drawn by someone who was there. When you get home, you write about it in your journal or diary. The journal is a primary source- it was written by somone who was actually there during the event.

(Thanks to http://www.cgrove417.org/cghs/KASL/sources.html)

•Another example:

I have an old teddy bear named Boo. I always thought I got Boo when I was a baby, and then I found a picture of me unwrapping Boo at Christmas when I was 2 years old. The picture is a primary source- it was taken at the event. My parents told me it was true. I didn't get Boo until I was two. They are primary sources. They were there. Boo is also a primary source--the actual artifact. You could tell this story using a bear and a photo.

•A primary source would be a diary about something that happened to a person, like traveling West on the Oregon Trail. A secondary source would be a book written using information from a diary. Primary=U.S. Constitution-- Secondary=a book explaining it.

Which is primary?  Which is secondary?

An actor's diary ---- A textbook on acting
Encyclopedia article about Pearl Harbor ---- Eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor
Book about pioneer women ---- Book of letters by pioneer women
Autobiography of Maya Angelou ---- Biography of Maya Angelou
Interpretations of Constitution ---- The Constitution
Interview with a musician ---- Reference book about musicians
A. Lincoln's inaugural address ---- Commentary on A. Lincoln's address
Book on the history of clothing ---- Clothes belonging to Martha Washington.
(Thanks to http://www.cgrove417.org/cghs/KASL/sources.html)

3.  bibme.org  practice 
A bibliography entry looks like this: 

House, Martha . "Primary and Secondary Sources." Morris County Schools. Kansas Association of School Librarians, 10 Apr. 2003. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. .

4. Fluency Practice with partners

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and Fill out your reading log.

Reading Strategy:  Determining Importance and Summarizing
Don't try to write down everything.  Take notes on the most important and most interesting information.
Put it into your own words so you aren't plagiarizing, but check to make sure you didn't change the meaning.

Computer Lab -- By the end of class today, you should have at least two web evaluations with notes completed.
1. Learning about Plagiarism
a. Go to   http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#
b. Listen to and read along with pages 1 and 2.
c. Be prepared to answer these questions:
      1)  What was the original meaning of the word that became "plagiarism"?
      2)  What simple question can you ask yourself to find out if you are committing plagiarism?  (Find the answer at the end of page 2.)


2. ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc  Open the one(s) you're working on, or open a new one for a new site.  Remember to save each one under a different name so you're not saving one over the last. 

2.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography

This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register for our purposes.

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to the last slide of your PowerPoint.

  http://www.bibme.org/



Due Dates:
Print off your  Web Evaluations with Notes when you have finished filling them out. (Don't forget to save each with a different name.)

• 2 Web Evaluations with Notes by the end of class on October 18
• 2  more Web Evaluations with Notes by the end of class on October  26  (One for those working alone.)
• Pairs will need to make sure they get the fifth evaluation/notes handed in.
• Have your PowerPoint done by the end of class on November 7.
• PowerPoints will be presented on November 9

No Mock Trial on Wednesday, October 19.

Intervention is available for English and reading classes.

October 19^th is the

last day to hand in late, revised, or extra-credit work for first term.