Pinning With a Purpose

Today in class you will start off by working on the last two agenda items.  To accomplish this task you will need to open your Pinterest accounts.  Your log in is your school gmail address (including @mybps.me; don't forget the 19).  Once you are logged in you will need to create a new board and title it, "Copyright and Citations." You will find a resource in your workstation folder to help you with this process; just in case you are confused.  Give this board a description and then "create" the board.  Next you will need to use the Pinterest search and find, evaluate, and pin at least 4 resources to your new board.  Remember to evaluate your pins.  Open up each one and decide if it will help you understand copyright laws or how to create a correct citation.  If it will not; then don't pin it!!

Once you have finished pinning, please do some work on your blog.  You should have at least 5 good posts by the end of this week.  Next week you will be creating a "reader" and getting your blog design rubrics.

Happy Pinning!!

Another New Start

Well Mother Nature most definitely won that battle! Hercules dumped quite a bit of snow and brought some frigid temperatures to our region.  I spent my fair share of time shoveling.  Did you help out at your home and in your neighborhoods?  I saw many Cape Codders working together.  There were many random acts of kindness being performed.  I would like to think many of my students were part of them.
I hope you all enjoyed your extended vacation and are back ready to work hard.  We will start off our week, by cleaning up your Drive.  You will need to make sure you have folders for each of your content areas.  You will also need to double check how you shared your folders.  Please use the list beside each workstation to check the "sharing" addresses of all your teachers.  If you are on team 7B, you will need to change your ELA folder sharing.  Please remove Mrs. Buss and add Mrs. Finnemore.
Once you have double checked your "sharing" please clean up your Drive.  Make sure all of your documents have names and are placed in the correct folders.  You should not have any random docs in your drive.  Make a new miscellaneous folder if you need to have a place to store docs.  You should then go to your Gmail and clean that up as well.  The last stop for cleaning up is your Contacts.  Please be sure all of your teachers are in your contacts with 2 "email" addresses; one for emailing and one for sharing. If you are on team 7B, you will need to change your contacts..  Please remove Mrs. Buss and add Mrs. Finnemore.
Once you have finished this clean up; you will need to work on a new blog post.  I made suggestions last week for a new post.  Check out my earlier post.  Please be sure to have someone edit your post before you publish.  Remember to ad links and/or photos to your posts.  Use your BPS Blogging & Commenting Guidelines as a reference.  **You should have at least 5 blog posts by the end of this week!!
During our second class this week we will begin our focus on Copyright & Citation.  This is a very important topic.  Before getting started, I would like to know what you know.  Please take this Copyright & Citation PreAssessment.  Please do not guess at answers.  This is not a graded assessment.  I will use it to guide our lessons and to measure your growth on the post assessment.

Shop 'Til You Drop

Okay guys......the pressure is on!   You will need to continue shopping during class.  Some of you will be down in the other lab with a substitute due to schedule rearranging because of sixth grade math MCAS.  You don't need me though, you know what to do!!  Please help one another.  Remember to upload those images to your Picasa web album and to put the URL's on your Google doc.  Please don't forget to clean out the download folder on the desktop of your computer.  (It is in the "My Documents" folder)  Shopping will need to be complete by the end of next week.  This will include music, but we will talk about that next week.  Use those filters in "Advanced Search" and you will have better luck narrowing down your searches.
Have fun and happy shopping!!!

Databases & Research

We will take a break from podcasting and blogging as we focus on research and data. You may or may not remember your tour of the BIS Library last year. Just a reminder- you did a scavenger hunt during ILT. There are two parts to our library; the actual, physical library and the “virtual” library. This virtual library consists of a collection of databases.
We will review not only the definition of a database, but take a quick tour of the library databases available to students at BIS. You will select a topic to research, find resources in these databases bookmark and tag the resources in your diigo accounts, and paraphrase or summarize information from these sources. The final outcome of this research will be a presentation using Google presentation as your tool. We will be reviewing important digital literacy skills during the next couple of weeks such as identifying reliability and credibility of sources. As well as primary and secondary sources. In addition, we will focus on correctly citing these sources using some helpful tools. This is all a part of providing you with the 21st century skills you will need to succeed in life!

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