I hope you all enjoyed having an extra day off this week. Did you take any time to think about why we weren't in school today? Did you do anything special to celebrate or honor Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.? Volunteers honored him all over the country. It is very hard for those of us living in 2014 to understand how much Dr. King did to change our country. Please find some time in your week to learn a little more about him and his legacy.
Moving on to the week at hand; Mother Nature seems to have another winter storm up her sleeve. The forecast for Tuesday night in to Wednesday morning doesn't look very promising if you are a technology student trying to get information and learning experiences out to her students. The weather forecasters are predicting, "Frigid with Fluff!"
Well on to the lesson for this week; Citations. Up until this point, I have let you simply use a URL as a citation. This week you will learn to write correct citations. Let's start by looking at a Prezi, "Plagiarism & Citing Sources." There are a couple of resources you will be using. I found a good interactive Citation Flowchart that may help you with understanding of what to cite and what not to cite. The English Club has a great resource as well. One of the best sites I have found is the Perdue OWL.
After exploring these resources, you will practice writing the correct citation for a website. Please write the citation for theMacworld article, "iPads in Schools: The Right Way to Do It" on a notecard. (There is a resource in your Workstation Resource folder.) I know this sounds tedious, but I really want you to "experience" what it feels like to write out a correctly formatted citation. This on line poster or this great cite, "Citing Internet Sources," will show you how to write a citation for a website.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.
You will try creating a MLA citation using each of these tools. Which do you like the best? Why? Be ready to share your answers to these questions with us at the end of class.
Moving on to the week at hand; Mother Nature seems to have another winter storm up her sleeve. The forecast for Tuesday night in to Wednesday morning doesn't look very promising if you are a technology student trying to get information and learning experiences out to her students. The weather forecasters are predicting, "Frigid with Fluff!"
Well on to the lesson for this week; Citations. Up until this point, I have let you simply use a URL as a citation. This week you will learn to write correct citations. Let's start by looking at a Prezi, "Plagiarism & Citing Sources." There are a couple of resources you will be using. I found a good interactive Citation Flowchart that may help you with understanding of what to cite and what not to cite. The English Club has a great resource as well. One of the best sites I have found is the Perdue OWL.
After exploring these resources, you will practice writing the correct citation for a website. Please write the citation for theMacworld article, "iPads in Schools: The Right Way to Do It" on a notecard. (There is a resource in your Workstation Resource folder.) I know this sounds tedious, but I really want you to "experience" what it feels like to write out a correctly formatted citation. This on line poster or this great cite, "Citing Internet Sources," will show you how to write a citation for a website.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.
You will try creating a MLA citation using each of these tools. Which do you like the best? Why? Be ready to share your answers to these questions with us at the end of class.
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