New Rotation Begins! February 29, 2012

Welcome to my new students!

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

Applying Reading Strategies to Computer Literacy, Research, and Presentation

You will be graded on

Research on the Internet (Finding Sites)   30 points

Website Evaluations                  60 points

Creating Bibliography Entries     15 points

Celebrity PowerPoint Presentation 

78 points 

View and Evaluate Other Presentations

20 points

Reading Log (reading during individual reading time, then filling out the log)

Points available vary depending on how many times we have individual reading time.

In case you are absent, pick up the pink make-up form.

Partner Fluency Practice Log

Points available vary depending on how many times we have fluency practice.

Various other daily assignments

Completing end-of-semester assessments and surveys 
Participation     (if needed)                        100 points

Term Project Due Dates:

Your web evaluations will all be due by March 20.

Your Celebrity PowerPoint is due by the end of class on March 28  and will be presented on March 30. 

Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

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 Today's Activities

Julian Smith enjoys reading!
Class overview

So you think you can read the Internet? 

How deep can you go?

How do you know who and what you can trust?  

Reliability 2012

Looked at some fake and not-fake information on the Internet.


Introduction to our big project  -- "Celebrity Webquest"

Next time:   
Do you know which celebrity you'd like to research?
Computer Lab -- Bring a thumbdrive.  
Save all word as. . . .  Watch for instruction for how to save your work.

New Rotation for my "Old" Students

Those of you who have been in Ms. Dorsey's class will go today to Mrs. Fugal's classroom on Wednesday, February 29.

Room 230









Don't forget to return any make-up reading sheets you may need to complete.  Also, turn in any end-of-rotation reflections/surveys or other assignments still ungraded. Turn them by Friday March 2, or SOONER!

Keep on Reading!
http://www.schooltube.com/video/e9bd79d29b4d0e6a2345/Gotta%20Keep%20Reading%20-%20Ocoee%20Middle%20School

Monday, February 27, 2012

Self-Starter:  Fill out End-of-Rotation Survey 

Partner Fluency Practice

Individual Reading Time

Results of voting on PowerPoint Presentations

Don't forget to hand in your pink reading-make-up sheets if you need to.

Next time: Go to Ms. Fugal's classroom for the beginning of the new rotation.  If you need to finish up anything for this rotation, have it done  and handed in by Friday, March 2.

Reliability 2012

Reliability: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=26&v=tVo_wkxH9dU   Spaghetti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yflTu150QZw  Marshmallows

Penguins   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

Illustration #1

Illustration #2 

Here is a video showing some things that have been done, and what you could do digitally now:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/01/30/146092729/whose-fingers-are-on-the-victoria-secret-models-shoulder?live=1%3Fsc%3Dfb&cc=fp


Ouida Sebestyen  -- How reliable would each of these sources be?

1.    http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/sebestyen.html
2. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/164547.Ouida_Sebestyen
3. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/sebestye.htm
4. http://www.jacketflap.com/persondetail.asp?person=119492
5. http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X   
6.  
7. Read this customer review from the Amazon link above.
   

   http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X 

   (or, if that doesn't work: Customer Review from Amazon.com

http://www.dhmo.org/


http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html

http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/penguin.asp

http://allaboutexplorers.com/home
Read about Lewis and Clark.  Can you believe it?

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Computer lab 201
Present PowerPoints!!!!  All parts of the celebrity project should have been handed in.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

PowerPoints on celebrities are due by the end of class today.
We present next time.  Make sure you save all work.

Computer Lab 211

Use this template to make creating your PowerPoint easy and accurate:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

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Keith and Jordan, here is your Wikipedia bibliographic entry:
 "Brian Regan (comedian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 7 Feb. 2012. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. .

And another:
"Brian Regan: The Official Site ." Brian Regan: The Official Site . Brian Regan, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2012.

Redo the rest that have your names in them.  Your names would indicate that you wrote them.  
 Do not put your own names into those entries.  Do as much automatically as you can on bibme.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Computer Lab 201

Computer lab 201 to finish web evaluations and work on powerpoint presentations.
Finish up your web evaluations if you haven't.  They were due last time.
Your powerpoint presentation is due by the end of class next time!

Use this template to make creating your PowerPoint easy and accurate:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

Individual Reading Time

Parent Teacher Conference Thursday, the 16th

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Computer lab 211 to finish web evaluations and work on powerpoint presentations.
Finish up your web evaluations if you haven't.

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt    

Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

 

Friday, February 10, 2012

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

2. Fluency Partners

3. Review reading strategies. -- noticing your thinking --
practiced with sections 1 and 2 of Internet Safety article

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/

Sample Bibliography for Dickens

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Bibliography

I made these entries using the URL from each site and Bibme.

Perdue, David . "David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page." David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page. David A. Perdu, n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2012. . 

"Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum." Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum. Portsmouth Museums, n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.

"BBC - History - Charles Dickens." BBC - Homepage. BBC , n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2012. .

I got these through Pioneer:  The Bibliography Entries are already made there.  I only have to copy and paste them.

"200 Years of Charles Dickens." NewsCurrents Read to Know. 30 Jan 2012: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 08 Mar 2012.

"Dickens, Charles." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 08 Mar 2012.

Steps for Your Celebrity Web Project and Calendar

View this PowerPoint:

Steps for Celebrity Project 97.ppt

 

Or just read through the steps listed here:
Order for Doing the Celebrity Web Assignment:
1. Select a celebrity and optional partner.
2.  Use various search engines to find possible sites to use for research. (five for individual and eight for partners)
3a Select sites to evaluate.  Fill out  website evaluation forms for three if you are working alone, or for five as partners.
3b.  As you complete the website evaluations, also take notes on each site -- finding information you can use when you put together your PowerPoint.
3c. Make sure you prepare a bibliography entry for each source you will use.
(You should have all website evaluations completed, printed, and checked off by Ms. Dorsey by .)
4.  After you have completed your three or five website evaluations, begin working on your PowerPoint.
5.  Complete the PowerPoint by .


Computer Lab Calendar for Celebrity Project

March 2 -- Lab 211 -- Web Research with instruction  
March 8 -- Lab 211 -- Web Research  with instruction  -- Research on the Internet papers are due by the end of the period.
March 16 -- Lab 201  -- Web Research  with instruction  -- Completing web evaluations.
March 20 -- Lab 201 -- Completing Web Research (All website evaluations are due -- 3 for an individual, 5 for a pair.) and working on PowerPoints 
March 22 -- Lab 201 -- Bibliographic entries (bibme)  are due by the end of class if not already passed off.
March 28 -- Lab 201 --  Completing PowerPoints (PowerPoints should be ready to be graded by the end of the period.)
March 30 -- Lab 211 --  PowerPoint Presentations

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Self-Starter: Computer terms.
Prepare to go to computer lab.
Reminder of how to create a bibliography entry.
Computer Lab  201

Priorities: 
1 Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc  This document, filled out with sites about your celebrity, should have been turned in.


2. Your web evaluations are due by February 14.  You will print them off and hand them in to your class's top wire basket in the classroom. We will be in the computer lab on February 14, so they are due by the end of class.
ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc


3. Create your bibliography.
Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography


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
 



If time:  Individual reading and reading log

February 6, 2012

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


Brief Computer Lab Time: Lab 201
Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc  This document, filled out with sites about your celebrity, should have been turned in.
All of your web evaluations are due by February 14.
 

2. Fluency Partners

3. Review strategies to Making Inferences.  See the tab above for "Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies."


4. More on using Bibme to create bibliographic entries.
Remember that for SIRS Discoverer and for World Book Online, the bibliographic entries are already made for you, and are found at the bottom of the article.

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Creating a bibliography with bibme.org
Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography


New Examples:

This is a fun movie -- Shakespeare's play set in Japan!

http://brycehoward.org/?page_id=301   

For this one,  I couldn't find the full name of the person who has created it, just Mel, so I filled in what information I could.
Unknown, Mel. "Adoring Bryce Dallas Howard - bryce-howard.com." Adoring Bryce Dallas Howard - bryce-howard.com. Fan Sites Network/Mel, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. .


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397171/bio

For the IMDb site, I added just the author and the copyright date.  I couldn't find a last-updated date, so I used the most recent copyright date.  Here is the bibliography entry Bibme created:
"Bryce Dallas Howard - Biography." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). IMDb.com, Inc. , n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. .


bibme.org
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More Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography
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Examples: 

This is the URL I entered on bibme.org: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/paulsen.html
I added the sponsor and the date created -- the most recent copyright date.

This is the bibliographic entry that was created: 
Trelease, Jim. "Gary Paulsen-author profile-p.1." Jim Trelease's Home Page. Jim Trelease and Reading Tree Productions, n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. . 

For SIRS DISCOVERER or World Book Online, you don't have to use a bibliography-maker.  The citations are already made for you.  You'll usually find them at the bottom of the page for the article, and often they are marked "MLA." 
The two sources that I found on SIRS DISCOVERER already had bibliographic entries, which I just copied to my Research on the Internet Page.  Here they are:

Gary Paulsen (1939 - )." SIRS Discoverer. Oct. 29 2002: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 27 Jan 2012.

Bieselin, Robert. "Novelist Gary Paulsen Talks About His Drive to Continue to Write..." The Record (Hackensack, NJ). 08 Apr 2010: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 27 Jan 2012.

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For Cooper and Kaden:
"Jimmer Fredette | NBADraft.net." NBADraft.net. Sports Phenoms, Inc., n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2012.

This post was originally published 2/2/12.

February 8, 2012

Computer Lab Today
Don't forget to print off  and hand in your Research on the Internet papers.

Your web evaluations are due by February 14.  You will print them off and hand them in to your class's top wire basket in the classroom. We will be in the computer lab on February 14, so they are due by the end of class.
ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc

Remember to save each one with a different name. Save each on your flashdrive/thumbdrive and on

More Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography


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