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BRING YOUR BOOKBAG AND MATERIALS
REGULAR B-DAY ON FRIDAY
Explore and Experiment . . . .
The investigation stage-research, explore, experiment- is coming to a close. You have completed your secondary research (Internet, book, magazine, newspaper sources) and you are well on your way to completing your primary research (interviews and surveys).
Homework: explore and experiment with the various digital media that you are considering using in your community service campaign on digital citizenship. For example: noodle around with PowerPoint or try Presentations in Google Docs. Try to find the brochure templates in MS Word. If you have a microphone, try recording your voice to make a podcast. Or if you have a digital camera, see if you have a setting for making movies. Explore and experiment what you are interested in trying. Write your reflections in Google Docs or on paper. What did you try? How did it go? What did you learn, or what did you figure out?
Investigation Stage Research Continues
- Bring one print source relevant to your topic (book, magazine, newspaper)
- add that to your “Works Cited” list
- Find one source in the database “Kids Search”
- add that to your “Works Cited” list
- Start to think about and make some plans for primary research
- interviews
- surveys
(Don’t forget: Remember to bring your Queens Library card # and PIN #)
IF YOU ARE BEHIND READ BELOW:
Making progress on the investigation stage. What should you have completed thus far:
- you should have your internet research posted in Youth Voices bookmarks. Annotations should be in your own words. Describe what you learned from the site you are bookmarking
- you should have made a “Works Cited” list from the internet sources you have gathered.
- Use Easy Bib
- login with your BSGE email: 14lastf@bsge.org
- add citations to your Digital Citizenship list
- When you have all your citations, click VIEW and copy/paste into a Google Doc
- make a space between each citation
TODAY’S CLASS AGENDA AND LINKS TO DOCUMENTS
1. Read/Respond to GQ (7 Things You Should Know about Socal Bookmarking)
2. Research Planning (Follow directions in Google Doc — see link for Research Planning)
3. Begin research
4. Bookmark at least two useful sources
Post to Youth Voices
- Finish the work on Web searches (take the quiz at the end and complete your worksheet–worksheet is stored in your Investigation Stage pocket of the portfolio)
- Log In to Youth Voices
- Choose: “Add to my Blog” ->DISCUSSION
- Choose a title for your post. (Use proper capitalization for a title) — remember your audience is other kids and you want them to read your blog.
- Choose KEYWORDS (separated by a comma and a space)
- Write the body. Share something that you learned today that you think would be of interest to other students struggling with Web searches. Check for coherence of thought, spelling, capitalization, grammar and punctuation.
- Choose both Baccalaureate School and Technology and the World as your audience and check the box for public.
- Submit your post.
- If you notice a mistake, or if you want to revise after you post, click on your title and you will see a tab for “Edit”
INVESTIGATION STAGE
Today in class you did a freewrite on your topic and highlighted KEY WORDS (TAGS)
- Finish listing th key words/tags
- From that list choose one and find a picture related to it (clip from a newspaper, a magazine, or print-out from the Internet)
- Do a 5-minute freewrite on the picture
“I am wondering . . . “
- Go to Google Docs (http://googledocs.bsge.org) to do this lesson or, CLICK THIS LINK
- Follow the instructions highlighted at the top.
- After each section there is a place for you to share what you are wondering.
Read pages 268-272- Complete critical thinking problem #1 on page 272
1. Read the packet on the 4 elements of design.
2. Follow your design brief and create the actual slip-sheet for your portfolio. You may create it on the computer or by hand. You can print it in color, or print in black and white and color it by hand. The only rule is to follow the design brief.
Today you got your Technology folders and a handout with your instructions for completing Desgin Stage Skill #B.1
DELIVERABLES: Three feasible design sketches for your portfolio slip sheet that follow the design brief specifications.
