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. 

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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. 

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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.