Monday, January 23, 2012

1. Self-Starter: Individual Reading and fill out reading log.

2. Sign up for a celebrity and complete an attitude survey.

3. Reading Strategy:  Asking Questions  

a. specific questions about the subject
b. critical questions
   Who is the author or sponsor?
    How does the author know about this subject?
   What is the author's purpose?
    Can I depend on this author or sponsor for the truth?

Is this site reliable?
Is this site  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)."

Find the URL in the address bar on your browser.

Address Bar

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 may use Wikipedia as a source ONLY if you can verify information from it with two other sources.

4.  Partner Fluency Practice

Next time: Computer Lab to take the SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory to find your reading level)  and to learn more about doing research.

Computer Lab Calendar for Celebrity Project:

January 25 (to give SRI)  and instruction about using the web
January 31    Web Research with instruction   --  
         Research on the Internet papers are due by the end of the period.

February 8     Web Research  with instruction
February 14   Web Research  with instruction
       (All website evaluations are due -- 3 for an individual, 5 for a pair.)
February 16   Bibliographic entries (bibme)  are due by the end of class.
                      Completing Web Research (if yours are late) and working on PowerPoints 
February 21   Completing PowerPoints
         (PowerPoints should be ready to be graded by the end of the period.)
February 23   PowerPoint Presentations