Tuesday, September 11, 2012

September 12, 2012

1. Individual Reading and log
2. Computer Lab
Demo: Download and  Upload a document.
Demo: Use your links to get back to the sources.



To get back to the SIRS and other Pioneer URL's you've saved. 
                                                      [World Book, EBSCO]
     (Log in if you are at home.)
2. Open whichever database or encyclopedia you want to use.
3.  Open a new tab and paste in the URL you saved into the navigation/address bar. 
         That should open the article.


Famous Person Presentation
Project Checklist

Research
Complete the following and submit the following online through
                                                         Edmodo:

☐ Search & Select  (Due Sept. 10)
☐ ABC #1 for first source  (Due Sept. 10)
☐ ABC #2 for second source  (Due Sept. 12)
☐ ABC #3 for third source     (Due Sept. 18)
After completing and turning in the above, get to work on your PowerPoint.

Create these slides for your PowerPoint Presentation:
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Slide 1
6 points
You will make a cover slide with a picture of your famous person, that person’s name, and your name(s).
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Slide 2
12 points

Question #1: What can I find out about my famous person’s life before he or she became famous?

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
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Slide 3
12 points

Question #2: How did my famous person become famous?

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
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Slide 4
 12 points

Questions #3:  What obstacles (problems) did my famous person face?  or What makes my famous person admirable?

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
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Slide 5
12 points

Question #4: What are his or her major accomplishments?

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
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Slide 6
12 points

Question #5:  What can I learn about his or her personal life? (family, hobbies, etc.)

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐
Slide 7
12 points

Question #6: What other interesting information have I found out about him or her?

(include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐
Slide 8
12 points
This is your Bibliography (also called Works Cited) slide.

All should have been turned in (and revised, if needed) by : Friday, September 28
 

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Computer Lab Dates:
B5-B6

August 30 -- 211         Search and Select         Assignment on Edmodo.  Turn in on Edmodo.

September 10 -- 211   Research
September 12 --211    Research

MAYBE:  September 14, too?  
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints 

                                    -- Use Bibme to create citations.  
September 24 - 201    Work on PowerPoints, extra research if needed

September 26 -- 201   Finish up PowerPoint Presentations

September 28 -- 201   Your project is due and will be presented on this day.

A Bookstore is. . . .

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
  -- Jerry Seinfeld

Friday, September 7, 2012

September 10, 2012

September 10, 2012:  
Computer Lab Day    Research on Your Famous Person

Today: Pick up your manila folder.
  •  Individual Reading Time in the classroom.
  •  Look at examples of assignments.
  •  Computer Lab 211 -- Take  your thumb drive.
    • Have you finished your Search and Select Paper?  If not, finish it up and turn it in.
    • Begin filling out your first ABC Website Evaluations for your first source -- of the sources you found on your Search and Select assignment.  Due today by the end of class or finish as homework as soon as possible.
Note:  Today is a shorter day-- Early Out Monday.  Class ends at 9:25 for B5   and 10:45 for B6.
Due by the end of class today:
1. Search and Select -- 
     Turned in on Edmodo. 
     Make sure you save your work before you upload it. 
2.  The first ABC Website Evaluation.  
     Find it on Edmodo.  
     Complete it, including notes, 
         save it, 
         and turn it in on Edmodo.
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To get back to the SIRS and other Pioneer URL's you've saved. 
                                                      [World Book, EBSCO]
1. Open http://pioneer.uen.org 
     (Log in if you are at home.)
2. Open whichever database or encyclopedia you want to use.
3.  Open a new tab and paste in the URL you saved into the navigation/address bar. 
         That should open the article.