Handouts and Directions for Semester 2 of 2012

The Celebrity Webquest Project

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

Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc

 Research  Example: 

Research on the Internet Gary Paulsen.doc

ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   


Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography
Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt  

Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s), and period
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Life Before Fame
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme  

You may add up to three extra slides.

Important!!!

Make It Your Own
The information for the bullets on your slides should be in your own words.  Read about your celebrity from several sources, then synthesize what you have read by putting the information into your own words.  

Edit Your Work
Don't forget to edit for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and other conventions.  Did you know that the titles of books and movies are capitalized (all the important words) and italicized?
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View this PowerPoint:  Steps for Celebrity Project.pptx

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

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

Tuesday, February 1

 Bell-Ringer: Individual Reading/fill in log

emma watson example.ppt 


Computer lab to finish web evaluations

Good News: 

Your own pages are ready.  You are now able to save URLs, create your citations, and collect notes on your own pages.  Go to the wiki at

http://a2cavereading2011.pbworks.com

and follow the directions. 

For how to create citations and your bibliography for your PowerPoint, go to Creating a Bibliography.

 

January 3, 2011

  1. Bell-ringer: Silent Conversation

Topic:  What I read over the Christmas break (and/or) What I did instead of reading

Directions:
1. Pick up a sheet of lined paper from the pile provided.
2. Write at least three sentences about the topic above.  Write your name by each entry you make.
3.  Pass the paper back one.
4.  Respond with at least one sentence to what the previous student wrote.  (What would you say to that if you were having a verbal conversation?  Would you ask a question, make a connection to your own life, respond with words to describe what the student wrote?)
5.  Keeping the same paper, write at least three new sentences of your own about the topic above.
6. Pass the paper back one.
Repeat the above steps.  If you are sitting at the back of the column of seats,  after you have written pass the paper to the person at the front of your column.

[If your were absent, make up this assignment by writing one page about  the Christmas/New Years Break we just had.]

2. About the Celebrity Webquest Project.
You should have your website evaluations finished and checked off by the teacher.  They were due December 14.
If you haven't, finished your website evaluations by Wednesday, January 5. We will be in the computer lab to create your PowerPoint Presentations about your celebrities.
All students will present their PowerPoints on Friday, January 7.

3. Individual Reading time and Ms. Dorsey checking with individuals and partners about their celebrity projects. 
[If you were absent, make up silent reading time by reading twenty minutes and creating a log entry to attach to your reading log.]

December 2, 2010

Parent-Teacher Conferences Tonight from 4:00 to 7:30 Bell-Ringer: Pick up your website evaluations: 3 for an individual and 5 for a pair.

Bring your thumb-drive!

Computer lab for research on celebrities.  You need to fill out your web evaluations including notes on information you've found that you might be able to use on your PowerPoint.  As an individual you will need at least three sources (three web evaluations with notes).   As a pair you will need five sources (three web evaluations with notes).

Roll and celebrity check. 

#1 -- Look for your celebrity on Pioneer -- Sirs Discoverer
Using Pioneer:  Use Pioneer to search for useful information for school projects, etc. For access from home --
Go to http://pioneer.uen.org
from home: User Name:   Password:

Search for your celebrity at Sirs Discoverer.

Notice that you can email articles  to yourself.
Information on Sirs Discoverer is reliable! 

#2 -- Link to the Celebrity WebQuest Assignment: http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/ 
Use some of the tools and sites to search for your celebrity. You may search with Google. 
Don't forget to create a bibliography entry/citation for each site. Save it on a document and save that to your thumb drive or e-mail it to yourself.

  http://www.bibme.org/

November 19, 2010

Bring your thumb drive today!

Bell-Ringer:  Crossword about Internet Terms

Computer Lab 223

Important!  Open this blog again in a new window.  Copy and paste the URL.   Leave this window open while you click on links from the other. 


Today we will learn about searching the Internet using an interactive tutorial at  http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/course
Go to the above web address (URL) and then  
click on START
then click on 06 Searching 

Searching -- Quiz -- Advanced -- Quiz then do the Weakest Link quiz,

and if you have time play with the other games.

4. Internet project: Celebrity Webquest   Link to our blog about the webquest: http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/
Look through the assignment to get acquainted with what you will need to do.


5.  To help you make a final selection of a celebrity --  Look through the following sources for famous people you might be interested in.

• Take notes on the organizer provided to you. 
• If you brought your thumbdrive, or have an email account, you could open the organizer here, type your notes on it (make sure you copy the URL where you found the information), and save the document onto your thumbdrive or mail it to yourself.  

Organizer for Selecting a Celebrity(2).docx

or  

Organizer for Selecting a Celebrity(2).doc

Important Note:  You will need to end up with 3 to 5 different sources about your famous person.

1. Click on the Resources Tab.
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   

To select a celebrity, you will fill out this document: WebQuest Assignment Work-Sheet compatibleQ2.doc 
If you are here today, you should already have it.  If not, ask Ms. Dorsey.



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.

6. ______________________________________If you have time, read the information below.
Internet and other computer vocabulary
Thanks to Oprah:  http://oprahgoesonline.blackhammer.com/glossary/glossary_pop.html

URL
Simply put, a Web page's address. In the alphabet soup that is Internet-ese, URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Just as every person on the Net has a unique e-mail address, every file and page on the Web has a unique URL. You can see the URL for the Web page you're on in that thin white horizontal box at the top of your browser. The first part of the URL (http) tells the browser it's looking for a Web page written (most likely) in HTML. The rest gives the name of the computer, then the directory that holds the page, and last but not least, the name of the file that makes up that particular Web page. (The file name typically ends with the .html or .htm suffix, which tells you and your computer it's an HTML file.) You can instantly swing over to any page on the Web by typing the page's URL into the white box and hitting the "Return" key.

Domain
The last two parts of an Internet address. Just as file extensions (such as .gif for GIF files) give some indication of what kind of file it is, the suffix at the end of an Internet site's domain name tells what kind of site it is. For example, .com means it's a commercial site, while other common ones include .edu, for educational institutions, .gov for government, .org for organizations and .org, for non-profit sites. For sites based outside the U.S., there are many others; .ca means the site originates in Canada, .au means the server's in Australia, while .uk means it comes from, well, you know.

Search engine
Your tireless cyber bloodhounds are your guides to the Web. The term search engine is usually used to include three different types of guides: true search engines, directories, and search agents. A "true" search engine uses a program (sometimes called a spider) to search the Internet for information and collate it in a database. A directory (Yahoo, for example) uses a database too, but the information in the database is researched by people, not programs. And an agent (Metacrawler) searches existing databases. There are also specialist directories and agents that search only shopping sites, for example.

About Primary and Secondary Sources (These are lesson materials for teachers, but reading through them gives you a good understanding about the difference between primary and secondary sources.)
http://www.cgrove417.org/cghs/KASL/sources.html

October 18, 2010

Bell-Ringer: 
We will also pass back the papers you handed in with ideas for celebrities. 
We will go to the computer lab right after I present a demonstration of easybib.  

You may sit with your partner in computer lab as long as you are productive.
Take your  handouts, a pencil or pen, and your planner.

Computer Lab 223:
1.  Select the celebrity you most want to learn more about. 
2. Write in your top three choices, with the one you'd like the most in the #1 spot.
3.  Hand in your papers
4.  While you wait to find out. . .
5.  Start looking for sites that would be reliable and provide you with the information you'll need.
6.  Create citations for the sites you find that you think might be helpful.  Create the word document and save it on your thumb drive  or e-mail it to yourself or (if you can't do the others) print it and hand it in with your other worksheets.

Read7 Comp Lab Directions Oct 18(2).doc 

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Extra Stuff --

What makes a site reliable?  How can you tell if it's not reliable?
Do you believe everything you read and see?   Is it Reliable?  

Here is a lesson on deciding whether a site is reliable or not.

Time in computer lab to begin doing research.

Extra Credit:  How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?  Find and record 4 answers at http://www.tootsie.com/gal_machine.php  
to earn 5 extra credit points.
Earn an extra ten by creating a citation for the page at easybib.com
Copy the URL from above or from the page navigation bar itself.
Follow the directions here. Using easybib.com
Print it and bring it to me or email it to dorsc405@alpine.k12.ut.us and put Parent of [with your own name] in  the subject line.

Image found at http://www.xconomy.com/?attachment_id=9119

Boring Teacher Stuff 
More Teacher Stuff
And More  
Google Lesson on Reliability

October 4, 2010

1) Bell-Ringer:  On a piece of clean lined paper, respond about the inquiry/research/internet/celebrity project: 

Journal Prompt:  

Part 1.  What did you think about this unit? Was it worthwhile to you? What did you learn that you didn't know before? What did you enjoy most from this unit? What did you like least? What suggestions do you have for me so that future students can have an even better experience?

Part 2.  Look at the chart of reading strategies on our classroom wall. Tell about how you used two or more of the reading strategies as you read from the Internet.   

2) Inquiry Reading and Thinking Critically with the iBrain!


3) Supported Individual Reading Time

4) Reading Fluency Practice

Important:  Hand in your PowerPoint and Website Evaluations if you haven't yet.

This Wednesday is the last day in this rotation.  You will then move(on Friday) to Mrs. Fugal's class. 


image from http://www.clipartheaven.com/show/clipart/anatomy/brain_-_mechanical-gif.html

September 28, 2010

Your Web Evaluations and PowerPoint are both due today. We will share them in class next time.
Plan to bring and leave your thumb drive.  Mark it with your name-- you could use tape.  Also make sure your web evaluations are complete, stapled to the grading sheet, and handed in to the wire basket.

Individual Reading Time -- Bring a book.

Fluency practice -- We set up our Fluency Practice.

Bring your thumb drive with your PowerPoint next time!

September 24, 2010

Good news, we will have about half of the period for those who need to  work in the computer lab on their celebrity projects.
Bring your thumb drive.

You'll want to bring a book to read, and you may want to check these out:
   Celebrity Quest Assignment   and   grading for evaluations and presentation.doc

You will need your finished PowerPoint by September 28. Plan to bring and leave your thumb drive.  Mark it with your name-- you could use tape.  You must have your finished PowerPoint here September 28 and 30. 

Here is another resource you might want to check to see if your celebrity is there:

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

Using easybib.com

To practice, open cavereading.blogspot.com in a second tab or window so you can still read these directions,  and then go to http://www.easybib.com/

1. Check to make sure that the tab that is showing is the tab for websites.
2. Open (in another tab or window) to the website for which you want to make a citation (bibliography entry).
3. Copy the URL.
4. Past the URL into the space provided (where it says "Enter website address or keywords to cite."
5. Click on the link marked "Cite this."
6. Check at the bottom of the page for a date last revised or a copyright date.
7.   If you find one, fill in that information at the "Electronically published:" box.
8. Click on "Create Citation."
9. Your citation has been made, and you can copy it to a document or PowerPoint, or you can click on "Save as word document" and save that to your flash drive.
10. If you wish, you can prepare the citations for all of your sources (as long as you don't close easybib), and then just make a document or copy all at once.  

Hand in, with your website evaluations, your list of three or five citations. 

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

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Looking for famous person to research?  

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

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

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

September 3, 2010

September 3, 2010

If you didn't sign up for your celebrity, please do it as soon as possible.  Please check Skyward for my records of who is doing which celebrity.  Some of you still need to select a celebrity, or select a different one. 

1. Bell-Ringer:  Read the article about" Dad's Bionic Hand" (found on the Internet),  noticing your inner voices:  conversational (What's the conversation?) or  Waste-of-Time?

Interesting article:  Dad's Bionic Hand!   Dad's Bionic Hand Handout

2. Students were introduced to their major project for the term.  
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.docx
or 
Reading 7 WebQuest Assignment Instructions compatible.doc

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

Today the students received a worksheet to get started.  If you need a copy, you may upload it from either of these: 


WebQuest Assignment Work-Sheet.docx
or 
WebQuest Assignment Work-Sheet compatible.doc

The completed project is due by  September 28.  We will be in the computer lab to do research on two days, and will have one day to put together the  PowerPoint Presentations.  Once you have sufficient understanding of what we are doing, you are welcome to also work on this at home.



3. Students did Independent Reading and we continued individual testing.