Thursday, March 8, 2012

Today's Schedule:


1. About  Website Evaluations -- Today in computer lab,  open and work on filling out out 3 or 5 of these:  ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc
Save each one on your thumb drive and on your student drive with a different name!  See the sample handout today. 

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

Sample Bibliography for Dickens

 

2.  Computer lab 211  -- Important: You have today, the 16th, and the 20th to complete your website evaluations and notes.  They will go on your Term 3 grade.

[What is a URL?  A Uniform Resource Locator -- It is the address of a website or a particular page on a website.]
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Steps for Your Celebrity Web Project and Calendar

Assignments to complete: 

1.  Sign up for a celebrity.

2. Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc  Complete one of these, print and hand it in.  Use the sites you have collected on it for your research below. 

3.  From your Research on the Internet Assignment, select 3 (if you are working alone) or 5 (if you are working with a partner) sites that will give you the best information about your celebrity, and for each of those fill out a Website Evaluation assignment: ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc   Don't forget to take notes in the area provided.  You will use these notes to make your PowerPoint.  After filling it out, print each and hand it in.  

4.  As you fill out your website evaluations, collect your bibliography entries.   These will be handed in, either on your website evaluations or collected on a separate sheet, and will go on the last slide of your PowerPoint.

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

5.  After you have completed your website evaluations (3 or 5) with bibliographic entries, and have had them checked off by the teacher,  you may create your PowerPoint. 

Use this template as the beginning of your PowerPoint:  

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt

 -- This is what the grading sheet looks like that Ms. Dorsey and Mrs. Sparks will use when grading your PowerPoint presentations:  Grading for Celebrity Project

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If you still need to find a celebrity, here are some sites to help:

1. Click on the Resources Tab above.
2. Click on Academy of Achievement  either here or there.   Consider possible celebrities/famous people you see there.
3. Check the list at  http://www.people.com/people/celebrities/0,,,00.html 
4. And http://www.rd.com/interviews-celebrity-actors-musicians-athletes/ 
5. And http://www.notablebiographies.com/ 
6. And Incredible People.com  

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 Why this project?  Internet Literacy is  an important part of  our modern world.  We are practicing reading strategies while gathering knowledge and skills for doing research online and off.