"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." This is a line from a John Lennon song. Others sources claim Allen Saunders is it's creator. Check out Quote Investigator to help figure out this mystery. My whole reason for bringing up this quote is it's meaning. Even though I made some great plans for last week, "life" in the form of a snowstorm happened. The results of the storm was an extra day off which in turn resulted in two ILT sections not having class at all. So ILT #1 and ILT #3, you will be working on our citation lesson from last week. It is an important lesson, and I don't want you to miss it. I will be out today and Mr. Frazier will be leading you through this lesson. Please use the information below to successfully complete your introduction to MLA citations.
You will start off class by watching the Prezi, "Plagiarism & Citing Sources." If you don't know what a Prezi is, have no fear. It is a great slideshow with a bit of a twist. To move through the Prezi, you will need to click on the arrow at the bottom of the page. Each click will "zoom" you to the next slide or piece of information.
Once you have finished this Prezi, you will then practice writing a MLA citation for the website,
You will start off class by watching the Prezi, "Plagiarism & Citing Sources." If you don't know what a Prezi is, have no fear. It is a great slideshow with a bit of a twist. To move through the Prezi, you will need to click on the arrow at the bottom of the page. Each click will "zoom" you to the next slide or piece of information.
Once you have finished this Prezi, you will then practice writing a MLA citation for the website,
"iPads in schools: The right way to do it." You will use the resource, "Citing Internet Sources." There is a hard copy of this resource in the Workstation Resource folder next to your workstation (it's yellow.) If you take a look at the bottom of this document you will find a box. At the top of the box is a sample citation. Below it you will see a list of 6 items which you will need to find on the website with the iPad article. Please create your citation on the notecard you have at your workstation. Be sure to pay attention to all punctuation. Each space, punctuation, etc. are all a part of the correct format. Do not write each item on a separate line. Refer to the sample citation at the top of the box. Your's should look similar to it. (Hint: your citation should begin with - Mathis, Joel.)
When you have finished, take a look at the answer on the back board. Okay so now that you have gone through the pain of writing out a citation, I have some great tools I think you will find very useful. There are some online citation creation tools that will make creating citations much easier for you. Check out Easybib, Bibme, and CitationCreation.
My friends in ILT #4 are a bit further along than ILT #1 and #3 because you had one class last week. Please make sure you have finished these citation activities. Once you have completed them, move on with the next step below.
If you should finish this before the end of class, please use the Blog Design Rubric (pink paper) in your Workstation Resource folder to start preparing your blog to be assessed. Do a great job and I will be back for class 2 to answer any questions you may have.
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