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. 

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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.

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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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