TILT

End of the year final tutorial:

Please access the following TILT website. Go in as a guest. Choose one module to look at. READ all the screens. Take the quiz. If this takes you 10 minutes, you did not read. Through webmail-- E-mail me your score.

Final research project

This is a site to check if you are having trouble coming up with a research topic.

Remember:

• Topic must be interesting to you and you are familiar with it. T
• The subject must be something that can be supported with many reference materials.
• The topic must be significant and important and that many people and the society will gain knowledge from it.

Copyright

Look at the agenda. Using this link, create an answer list to the topics on the agenda. (In MS Word)

Creative Commons is a website where YOU can copyright your online information. If you can, check the site out!

Wiki comments

Here is a short comment list of my students re: social media

JoeyS Wikis
it is a good unit to be working on, i'd like to focus more on the other things that are accessable through wikis. the block on content for school really hampers creativity

froperks Wikis, etc.
Allowing and encouraging the use of more social media would inspire more creativity and quite possibly productivity. Just simply banning such forms of media merely inhibits and blocks a students ability to create an sufficient final product.


banana91 soc. Media
I think they should let students use the web 2.0 more often because its becoming the new form of communication and people need to experience them and learn how to use them. It also increases your social learning experience and helps people to communicate in a new way and gives you options. If we had access to more Web 2.0 kids would have a better experience in school. I think they should have one for high schools in areas and have someone controlling them and monertering them. This would let us meet new people from other schools and it would be safe because each tech administrator of each school would moniter the activities that took place.


tesolp Wikis, bogs, etc.
In my opinion, Wikis or blogging should not be allowed to be more accessible in school. Wikis should be allowed but as they are now (w/ class.. etc.). YouTube has lots of inappropriate things for school that we should not be allowed to open in school.

Wikis here we come!

A short video on the pitfalls of wikipedia:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XPC-bNX9O_E&feature=related


To begin to understand how to create a wiki, we will be using wikispaces. Our new wiki address is http://infostudies.wikispaces.com/.

Let's begin!

Web Evalutation

I think it is really important that you take the time to EVALUATE sources (especially internet sources) that I want you to take one more period to re-cap this important information using the online tutorial Internet Detective. You will take yourself through the section The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. READ through all the sections and take the quiz.

Also read through the Sum Up section. Then take yourself through the Get on the Case section. Do the three activities all the way to the Sum up.

Evaluating Sources

Today, you will use the criteria set out on the form to evaluate three internet sources:

Click here for the examples. You are to pick ONE set today to evaluate. When you are finished, we will be discussing them in class.

Google wiki--for our class

http://sites.google.com/site/1000infolitbeta/

Atlas links

1. What do you have to do?
Today's lesson will require you to look up coordinates using an online atlas. You first read this post from the National Atlas (click the link to read) and then do the assignment. Good luck. BE SURE TO SCROLL to READ STEP 6!

2. Determine (brainstorm) possible sources (you can use google to find sources or look for help on the first site)

3. Locate sources and find information within sources

4. Extract relevant information

5. Present the information (hand in paper)

6. Answer these questions on bottom of paper: How effective was your time spent? How could you have improved?

Podcasting 101

In this lesson, we will learn how to listen to a podcast and take notes from it. First, open up the podcast from the CNN podcast CNN Student News (choose Watch).

Watch the video, and listen. Take Cornell Notes...and write comment on back regarding the podcasts. Please include:
-Ease of use
-How is a podcast different than watching a regular television program?
-What are the benefits
-Disadvantages
-General comment

Effective Searching

This week we will be discussing searching the web effectively (catalogs, databases, Google, etc.)

On Tuesday, we will go through the QUT module on Keyword or subject searching (Click QUT).

Boolean operators are set for Wednesday: What is Boolean logic? Review with the QUT module.

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE TO SEARCH THE BOOLIFY website to practice Boolean searches(you can choose to search the web, newspapers or images on the site):

• How is secondhand smoke related to cancer?
• Should music be free to download off the Internet?

THURSDAY
How do the internet search engines work? Check out this web searching video


NESTING:
Southern PB&J (Watch the video)
Write a search string that would show nesting...(at the bottom of today's activity)

TRUNCATION:
Read the QUT module and do the activity...you will have to go to the local EBSCO link on the school website to find the answer to the second activity.

VISUAL SEARCHES
Visual searches (read through the tutorial) and then answer the questions...

FRIDAY
A full listing of which search engine can serve you best for all of these search strategies is posted here.

Internet mystery