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.

__________________________________________

“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? 

_____________________________________________

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.

______________________________________

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.

 

Friday, October 14, 2011

No computer lab today.

Self-Starter:  Quiet reading time and fill out reading log.

Today's focus reading strategy:

Using  External Text Features  

External Text Features are helps that aren’t just the main body of writing.  They include headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents, sidebars, annotations, italics, etc.

What external text features do you find at
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Bloom-Orlando.html

http://www.elvis.com/timeline/default.aspx ?

More about web research.
Here is another sample PowerPoint:  Jack Johnson REV.ppt

Fluency practice

Due:
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

an author you might be able to meet

 Awarding-winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti will  be at the BYU Bookstore Thursday afternoon between 4:15 and 5:15.  She’ll be there to sign books and to chat with anyone who wants to chat.
http://www.scbartoletti.com/

October 12, 2011

Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading -- Get out your book and quietly read.

Reading Strategy:  Asking Questions  
Is it reliable?
Is it useful?

Lesson on Finding/Evaluating  Reliable Sites --  The ABCs of Finding Reliable URLs*
A  Author
B  Bias
C  Coverage
D  Dates
E   Editor

* Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator
According to The American Heritage Dictionary,  The term URL is a noun and it is
"an Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade)."

These are the sample sites we looked at in class. 
Let's try it with a real site or three:  http://www.scbartoletti.com/
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Bartoletti__Susan_Campbell.html
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/

We looked at how many people had revised a Wikipedia entry, and at their strange user names!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Campbell_Bartoletti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dabomb87#Committed_identity 
You my use Wikipedia as a source ONLY if you can verify information from it with two other sources.


Due Dates: See the Calendar at the bottom of this page.


Computer Lab (Share lab -- We get second half.)
--  Finish your "Research on the Internet" page and print off a copy to hand in.
If you would like to work on  it at home, you may open this document:
This is the one we started last time.  If you started it, open your own document that you've already worked on.
Research on the Internet.doc
You may save it on  a thumb drive/flash drive, and print it off and staple it to the page you've worked on at school to hand in.
Requirement:
You need to have found at least six possible sites if you are working alone, and ten if you are working as a pair, and have copied the URLs  (from the sites themselves) to  your  Research on the Internet page.
When you are finished finding these URLs and pasting them onto the Research on the Internet page, print the page and hand it in to me.

Then. . . .

Begin work on  Web Evaluations.
You will use the URL's you found last time and today to fill out three or five of these:


ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc

• We will continue to work on this 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. 
• 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. 

October 10, 2011

Bell-Ringer:  Receive your folder and your new reading log.  Get out your book and read.

Reading Strategy:  Asking Questions

2. Select your celebrity:  Fill out a form for selecting the celebrity you will research.

About finding reliable sources on the Internet.

Computer Lab -- Begin Web Research.

3. Open this document:  Research on the Internet.doc

Follow the directions and fill it out.   Print and hand in before you leave.

____________________________________________

• 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

 _________________________
 You will use the URL's you find today to fill out three or five of these:
We will work on this 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.

ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc

October 6, 2011

Rotation 2:  Students will move from Ms. Dorsey's class to Mrs. Fugal's, and from Ms. Gadd's class to Ms. Dorsey's.

Self-Starter:  survey
Introduction to web project -- Be thinking about  celebrities  (famous people) you would like to learn more about.

Reading strategies applied to the Internet.

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