August 30, 2011

Self-Starter:  Pick up and fill in the blue half sheet from the back table.  You will use it to select your celebrity.  Hand it in to the teacher and pick up the white Celebrity Webquest handout.

New Webquest Handouts Fall 2011.doc
Use the first two pages for coming up with questions to ask about your celebrity.  Divide them into 5 major categories to create headings for five of your PowerPoint slides.  Those pages show you what each of your slides should have.

Today's Student Targets:
By the end of class I will --
1) know basically what I need to do for the celebrity project
2)  understand the difference between general and specific questions
3) create 5 or more general questions (and specific questions to go with them) for my research
4) understand that not all websites are trustworthy and understand the difference between primary and secondary sources.

2.  Asking Question -- View a PowerPoint about questions and finding reliable answers.
      What does it mean to be reliable?
3. View sample Celebrity PowerPoint
See examples at (Jack Johnson.ppt ) and emma watson example.ppt 
4. Asking questions about websites -- more to come next time.
     Next time you will receive your website evaluation forms and we will go to the computer lab to do research.  Watch for information on these intriguing topics: "A Search Engine is Not a Website" and "Wikipedia Warnings"


Computer Days: Sept 1,6,8,14,20 and, I hope, another toward the end of the month.  Make sure you bring your thumb drive on those days.

September 1:  Using search engines and evaluating websites
September 6:  Doing research and creating a bibliography
September 8:  Doing research and creating a bibliography
September 14:  Creating the PowerPoint
September 20:  PowerPoint is due and will be presented to classmates


3.  Find a book or magazine for individual reading time. It would be smart to use  the book you are reading  for English class. -- INDIVIDUAL READING TIME. Don't forget to fill out your reading log.
4.  Collect folders and place in crate.

The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely On Wikipedia

June 27, 2011 09:00 AM

by Mark E. Moran

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/The-Top-10-Reasons-Students-Cannot-Cite-or-Rely-on-Wikipedia.html
Video about how Wikipedia works: 
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/