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.