January 31, 2013

1.  Quiet Reading Time and Fill Out Your Reading Log
   If you are absent, pick up a make-up log to complete outside of class.
   When you bring it back, staple it to your reading log.

2. Preparing for Computer Lab
        Day # 3/4 and Day 4 in your packet, or, if ready, Day 5.


Demonstration for ABC Website Evaluating and Taking Notes

ABC's of Finding Reliable Sources

A = Author (Who wrote it?)

B = Bias (Why did he or she write it?)

C = Coverage  (What is in it? Does the information fit with what you've already learned?

D = Dates (When was it written and published?  When was it last updated?)

E =  Editor (How well has it been edited?  Does it seem that someone cared enough to make it correct and readable?)

Is it RELIABLE?

                                                Is it USEFUL? 

Taking Notes:

•      Look for facts that fit the categories on your PowerPoint.
•      Change it into your own words, but be careful not to change the meaning.    
•      You'll need at least 24 interesting and important facts for your PowerPoint.   The ABC document is where you'll gather them.   Also, add your citations to the place shown that is below your notes.     

Follow the directions!

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3. Using bibme.org

Using Bibme.org

or 

Using Bibme.org to Create Citations

Important Note:  You do not need to use bibme for BRC, World Book, or SIRS!

Helpful Online Privacy Tips

http://upfront.scholastic.com/resource/uploads_upfront/Issues/012813/UPF-012813-OnlinePrivacy.pdf

Quote about Fiction

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1.  Quiet Reading Time and Fill Out Your Reading Log
   If you are absent, pick up a make-up log to complete outside of class.
   When you bring it back, staple it to your reading log.

2. Preparing for Computer Lab
        Day # 3/4 and Day 4 in your packet.
Demonstrating what you will do:
Find the step in the packet.
Tell Ms. Dorsey what the next step is.

Follow the directions!

3. Using bibme.org

Using Bibme.org

or 

Using Bibme.org to Create Citations

Important Note:  You do not need to use bibme for BRC, World Book, or SIRS! 

4. Review on handing in the Search and Select Document.

5.  Computer Lab 211

Using Bibme.org

Part 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.

Important Note:  You do not need to use bibme for 

BRC, World Book, or SIRS! 

You will need to use it for other EBSCO sources or sources your find using other search engines. 

Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange 

tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

1. As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful. 

2. When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website." 

3. Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from. 
4. Paste it in the space on bibme.  Make sure you've erased the extra http:// first. 

 
4. Click on "Load Info." 

5. 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. 

6. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page. 

 
7. Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces. 

8. Look for an author (writer) of the information. Add that if there is one. 

9. Click on Add to My Bibliography. 

10. Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it or add it to your worksheet for plagiarism or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

  http://www.bibme.org/

If Bibme isn't working , try http://easybib.com/ .
or  try 
http://www.workscited4u.com/

Select Format: MLA
Select Source:  
      Select  Magazine,  Newspaper,  Journal, or   Encyclopedia
    Select Online 
Go ahead and fill in as much information as you can. 

It could come out looking something like this: 

Clooney, George "George Clooney." People 27 Nov. 2006: 72-75. Searchasaurus. EBSCO. 23 Oct. 2013


You need to use bibme to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source that gives them a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page! 

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.  

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

The Best Weapons in the World? !

Computer Lab: March 1, 2013

Computer Lab: March 1

Open a new tab or a new window, and leave this tab open, so you can come back to this when you are done with each step. 

1.  Go to
http://www.edmodo.com/  and sign up for your Reading 7 class.

Follow these directions:  Signing Up for Edmodo

2. Find the assignment for this class on Edmodo and follow the directions there.
If you need help,  here are instructions:

Turning in an Assignment on Edmodo

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On , please skip these other activities, and return to 

Come back to this ONLY if you have extra time. 

3. Read this customer review from the Amazon.com:




Customer Review from Amazon.com

Follow the links from that post.


Answer the question on your hard copy worksheet.

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4. Fill out the white worksheet, titled "Lewis and Clark – Important Information for Your U.S. History Class Next Year" using this link:


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




If you'd like more information about these explorers, see

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meriwether-lewis-is-shot-in-the-leg

Friday, January 25, 2013

1. Individual Reading and Fill Out Your Reading Log


R7S2R1 Day3-4 Directions.doc    (This is in your packet.)

• Review of how to sign up for your hero
• Review of how to open and work on your Search and Select

S2R1_search_and_select.doc

This is a sample only of the Search and Select.  It has been done by a sample student.  

R7s2r1SampleSearchandSelectBradbury.doc

• Reopening Biography Reference Center
• Opening and Searching in Pioneer Library

2. Computer Lab to Work on the Search and Select Document.
Today you will collect  several sources you could use for your research, including those from Biography Reference Center, several sources on Pioneer Library, and optional sources using other search engines.

Take your packet and your flash drive. 
In the computer lab, before you ask for help, take a deep breath, find where you are in the packet, and carefully READ the instructions. 

To open Biography Reference Center or Pioneer Library, go to
http://afjh.alpineschools.org/  
Go to Resources, and look for them on the menu. 

You'll find a link to Pioneer Library on our school home page, or you can just go to http://pioneer.uen.org/k12/ and use our log-in information.  
   The sources you will be looking at include these.  You must have Pioneer Library open to access them. 
          http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home?null&gr=Welcome+Utah+Education+Network

http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpage

Kid's Search for Middle and Elementary School
http://web.ebscohost.com/srck5/search?sid=b9bf237e-8ec2-42b8-a83c-bb7002148d3a%40sessionmgr113&vid=1&hid=123

Searchasaurus 
http://web.ebscohost.com/sas/search?sid=90503615-d962-442d-9349-f124c63fc083%40sessionmgr115&vid=1&hid=123

or Student Research Center at 
http://web.ebscohost.com/src/search?sid=453aca1c-0592-4dbe-8032-f4c58132094f%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=123

When you get to the gray and brown rows on your Search and Select, see these instructions and links.  

• How to use iSeek

               http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page
           Use the "Education" option first.  If it doesn't find any links, try the "Web" option.
Important:  On iSeek, click on the GRAY link NOT on the red one. 

Other Search Engines to try:   A Variety of Search Engines

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• How to create a bibliography entry using bibme or easybib         

http://www.bibme.org/     or     http://easybib.com/ 

            Directions:  Using Bibme.org to Create Citations 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

1. Individual Reading Time and Fill Out Your Reading Log for Today 

2. Partner Fluency Practice

San Diego Testing 
and
Garfield Reading Survey 

No computer lab today.  

We will have lab time on Friday.

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This is one of the first pictures that  came up when I looked for images for "Computer Savvy."

You, too, can be computer savvy! 

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Plagiarism:  a. Go to  

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

b. Listen to and read along with the information about 

plagiarism.

c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.     Plagiarism Computer Exercise In-Class.doc

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View a Sample PowerPoint

View the documents you will use to prepare to make it. 

S2R1_search_and_select .doc

ABC EVALUATION Sem2R1.doc 

Use this template to make your PowerPoint:  

Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt 

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Sample PowerPoint: (Do NOT use this as a template.  It is only to be used as an example.)

Margaret Thatcher.ppt

Using Biography Reference Center: 

http://www.slideshare.net/lisaref/biographies-plus-illustrated

Sign up for Your Hero

On Edmodo, find the note titled “IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO.” 
Follow the directions to sign up:

• Check the replies from other students to see whether your person is already taken. If so, you'll need to check the Biography Reference Center for another person you might like to learn about.  When you find the one that works, go to the next step.
• In a reply, tell me the name of your person, hit return to go to the next line, and paste the URL of the article on Biography Reference Center. See the first reply for a sample of what you are supposed to do. 
• DO NOT use replies to that note for anything but asking for your choice of famous person. 
• Watch for Ms. Dorsey's reply on your reply. This is due by March 11, 2013.

You can return to today's instructions here:    March 5, 2013

Find Your Hero(es) on Biography Reference Center

Instructions for Opening Biography Reference Center
1. Go to our school homepage at http://afjh.alpineschools.org/ (You could use the link from our blog.)
2. Click on RESOURCES at the left.
3. Click on Biography Reference Center. 

Log-in to Biography Reference Center with
username afjh
password: caveman


Finding Famous People with Biography Reference Center
1. In the Search bar, type in the name of your person. Make sure you spell it correctly.
2. Click on the Search button.
3. You may see a list of people who have the same name or other possible letter combinations. Pick the one you mean, and click on the link.
4. Now you will see a list of sources about that person.
5. Browse through them by clicking on each link and scrolling down to see how much information is available from each source.
6. Select the source that looks the most useful to you.
Notice that each source is given a lexile level – a number that indicates reading level.
Leave that tab open while you go to Edmodo.

   http://www.edmodo.com/

Your next directions are at this link:

Sign up for Your Hero

You can return to today's instructions here:    Friday, January 18, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

Turn in your disclosure document, if you have it.  It needs to come in by January 23. 

1. Individual Reading Time and Fill Out Your Reading Log for Today 

2.  Instructions for Computer Lab 

These are your tasks for your time in the computer lab: 

• 1) Take the SRI   
• Open Firefox. 
• Find the Icon for SRI on the Personal Toolbar 
•        -- on the left side.  

SRI instructions continued:

• Open SRI and sign-in.  
• Select three favorite types of books. 
• Take the practice test SERIOUSLY.
• Take the rest of the test. 
• If you absolutely DO NOT know an answer, use a "SKIP."
• When finished, you may print and take the list of suggested books. 

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When you have finished the SRI . . . 

• 2) Finish turning in your assignment from last time (on Edmodo) if you need to.  

Click on this link:   Computer Lab: January 16 

• 3)  Find Your Hero(es) on Biography Reference Center

• 4)  Use this link for directions to Sign up for Your Hero if he or she was on Biography Reference  Center. If not, try another person. 
• 
  
• 5)   If you have extra time, go back to Computer Lab: January 16   and do the rest of the assignment that is crossed out.  

January 14, 2013 Monday

Last Day of the Term and Last Day of the Semester!

1.  Grade Reading Logs -- ____/5   Please initial in the upper left hand corner as the grader!

2.  Grade Fluency Graphs -- ____/2  Please initial in the upper left hand corner as the grader!

3.  Turn in all fluency passages and sheet protectors

4. Take your folder and papers or recycle them.

5.  Read-a-Thon
       Quietly Reading
       Not interfering with others' reading

Thursday, January 10, 2013

1. Individual Reading and Reading Log

Your PowerPoints are due and will be presented today!  

You will also fill out a viewing response for other students' PowerPoints you see. 

2a. Computer Lab --  10 minutes or so to complete and revise PowerPoints.
2b.  Computer Lab -- Present PowerPoints and Fill out Viewing Form.  

3. Hand in your Viewing Form!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1. Individual Reading Time and fill out your reading log

2.  Computer lab to finish PowerPoint!  Your PowerPoint is due by the end of class. We will present them next time.
You should have already handed in your Search and Select and your ABC Evaluating Websites and Taking Notes.
Today:  Finish up your PowerPoint using the notes on your ABC document.
Turn in your PowerPoint on Edmodo.






On January 14

Bring a book!

If you'd like to, bring treats. 

Also, if you'd like, bring a pillow to sit  on.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a great Christmas Vacation!

Reminders:

• Your PowerPoint, and everything else that preceded it, is due by the end of class next Tuesday, January 8.
• We will view your PowerPoints on January 10.
• Second Term ends January 14.
• We will have a Read-a-Thon on January 14.  Bring something to read, treats if you'd like to, and, if you wish, a pillow to sit on.  

Today:

• Individual Reading Time and fill out your reading log.
• Partner Fluency Practice
• Garfield Survey
• Computer Lab 211 to work on PowerPoints/Hero Project

If needed:  Use this template to make your PowerPoint:  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt 

Interesting: Most Read Books?

http://www.visualnews.com/data-design/april/top10books_jaredfanning/