Prehistoric Googling

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

Celebrity Quest Assignment

The following is information that applies to Term 1, 2010.  See newer posts for the Term 2 information.
 
The project may be found at http://celebrityquest.webs.com/ 
I have made some adaptations, including point values for grading.

The instructions are  available here:

Reading 7 WebQuest Assignment Instructions compatible(2).doc 



WebQuest Assignment Work-Sheet compatible.doc


For those who do not have access to the Internet  at home, copies of the assignment instructions are available in class. 

Find the web site evaluations at 

September 10, 2010

http://celebrityquest.webs.com/research.htm

Prepare your bibliography entries at   easybib.com 

If you need instructions for easybib, see Using easybib.com

The grading sheet is here:
  grading for evaluations and presentation.doc

___________________________ 

Looking for famous person to research?  

Try http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/index.html

____________________________

Students, if you have this celebrity, did you look at this site:

Emily Rodda: http://www.emilyrodda.com/biography.html

More on September 10

We are learning more about reading the Internet.
Today we learned about primary and secondary sources. 
We spent time in the computer lab, filling out site evaluations (See the other post for September 10.)  and information about student-chosen celebrities.

Dates for Celebrity WebQuest:
September 10:  Complete at least one site evaluation and gather information
September 16: More site evaluations and gather more information
September 22:  Creating PowerPoints
September 28:  PowerPoints Due/Deadline for full points

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.



 Try using http://pioneer.uen.org
This is an online library sponsored by the Utah State Department of Education.  To log in from home you use the user name pioneer and the password search.
SIRS Discoverer  is a database created especially for school kids to use in their research.  You'll find newspaper, magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles. One of the nice features is that each result is labeled by reading level from easy to challenging.

Here is another site  you could  check for information about celebrities:  http://www.biography.com/

About Primary and Secondary Sources
http://www.cgrove417.org/cghs/KASL/sources.html