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.