Information Literacy (3/25)

Here's today's agenda (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Cool Math Games

2) GLOGSTER GRADES

3) EVALUATING SOURCES

-4 categories to look for in each web source: authority, content,

reliability, and design

-We will evaluate one website as a class: dhmo.org

4) 10 COOL NEW SITES

-choose 3 sites to evaluate using the evaluation sheet.

-learning log: Explain, in a well developed paragraph,

why you chose the 4 website from the list of 10.

SWBAT effecitvely evaluate 4 of the 10 websites from "cool new site"

using the evaluation worksheet AAPOAL

Information Literacy (3/23)

Here's today's agenda (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: physics games

-pick a game & play!

2) MAP & IMAGES OF JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE

a) use the link to "Crippled nuclear reactors" to answer the following

in a well-organized paragraph:

Explain how the nuclear reactors could have a devastating impact on

the Earth.

b) use the link to "Map of the damage..." to answer the following in a

well-organized paragraph:

Explain why the rings are larger closer to the epicenter of the earthquake

and what do these rings tell us?

c) use the link to "How Shifting Plates..." to answer the following in a

well-organized paragraph:

Explain how the earthquake happened and why it caused a tsunami.

3) COMMENT ON GLOGSTER ASSIGNMENTS

a) log into your account

b) under Classmates, click "show all" (underneath & to the right of

classmates)

c) choose a student by clicking on their name (above their picture)

d) using the Glogster rubric, comment on 3 other glogs

-What did they do well? What could they improve?

SWBAT navigate the New York Times interactive map of the Japan

Earthquake in order to create a well-developed paragraph AAPOAL.

Learning Log: Explain how the nuclear reactors could have a devastating

impact on the Earth.

Information Literacy (3/21)

Here's today's agenda (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Smithsonian Wild

-scroll through images & choose your favorite animal

-click on the animals name (on the bottom toolbar of each photo)

-learn about the animal & look at more photos

2) EVALUATING SOURCES

-4 categories to look for in each web source: authority, content,

reliability, and design

-We will evaluate one website as a class: dhmo.org

-Evaluate the 4 web sources you chose for your Glogster assignment

3) FINISH GLOGSTER ASSIGNMENT

-Due today!

-The Glogster assignment and rubric are in your gaggle accounts

-Look under "Zoho documents" for the assignment & rubric

SWBAT creatively present their research by using Glogster AAPOAL.

Information Literacy (3/17)

Here's the agenda for today (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Google Earth's NCAA Basketball Tournament

-search for your favorite school

-take a virtual tour of school and campus

-search for the tournament venues

2) GLOGSTER EXAMPLES & RUBRIC

3) EVALUATION WIZARD

-make sure all of you sources are valid using the

"evaluation wizard"

4) CONTINUE: Glogster Assignment

-you should have your 4 web sources found

-you must begin putting your Glog together

SWBAT understand how to effectively evaluate sources

by completing and the evaluation checklist AAPOAL.

Information Literacy (3/15)

Here's today's agenda (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: 1000 Awesome Things

-read through this blog

-Which one is your favorite?

2) LION DATABASE

-Open a new Word Document to answer the following questions

about the LION Database:

a) What is a database?

b) What organization created this database (top of the page)?

c) How is each site organized? How are they grouped?

d) If you hover the mouse over a site, what info does it give you?

e) Choose three sites: explain what grade levels could use this site,

if you can access this from home, and what the site is capable

of doing.

3) GLOGSTER ASSIGNMENT

-shared this with you in Gaggle, check under "Zoho Documents"

By the end of the day:

-must have 4 web sources

-use the LION Database to find your sources

-tell me which sites you used from the LION database

SWBAT understand how to effectively use a database and discover information AAPOAL.

Information Literacy (3/11)

Here's today's agenda (please copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Cool Math Games

2) READ ARTICLE: Unrest in the Middle East/Africa

-In a Word document, answer the following question

in a well developed paragraph:

Choose either Egypt or Libya. Explain why the people

want to overthrow the dictator?

3) GLOGSTER

-short demonstration of how Glogster works.

-take 20 minutes to become familiar w/ it.

4) GLOGSTER ASSIGNMENT

-I have sent a copy of the assignment to your Gaggle account

-DUE Monday, March 21 at the end of the period

5) LION database

-What is a database?

-Use the LION database to find your 4 web resources

SWBAT understand the basic functions of Glogster by creating a rough draft AAPOAL

Information Literacy (3/7)

Here's today's agenda (copy it into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Cool Math Games (5 min)

2) READ: Denver Public School's Internet Policy (20 min)
-take notes over the MAIN IDEAS of the article using WORD
-discussion of internet policy

3) GO TO The Superhero Squad Show
-you will use this to create your own comic strip
-first step is to become familiar with the site
-take 10-15 minutes to play within the site to
become familiar with it

4) CREATE A ROUGH DRAFT
-After using the Superhero Squad Show, create a
rough draft of your comic strip
-The comic strip must include a humorous look at CSAP testing
-Be creative!

SWBAT create a rough draft of their comic book using Word AAPOAL.

Information Literacy (3/3)

Here's today's agenda (copy into your planner):

1) WARM UP: Magnetic Poetry

-click on "play"

-click on "storymaker"

-create poetry!

2) GAGGLE

username: FMLast (last 4 digits of student ID #)

password: 6 digit birthdate (mmddyy)

example: Feb 2, 1997= 020297

3) GAGGLE VIDEOS

-watch "training videos" under "applications":

a) digital lockers

b) homework drop boxes

c) blogs

d) social walls

4) CREATE YOUR OWN BLOG

-click "My Blog" under "Applications" (left side of your Gaggle home page)

-As your first blog, you will complete the learning log:

Imagine yourself as a teenager 20 years ago, explain

three ways the technology you use everyday would be different.

5) If you're finished, play Cool Math Games

Objective: SWBAT use Gaggle's blog feature to create a

well-developed paragraph AAPOAL.