C-SPAN STUDENT CAMMrs. Kercher

7th Grade Gifted

TOPIC - 2014

• This Year’s Challenge: A Message to the U.S. Congress

• What’s the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?

• Click here to view topic areas and C-SPAN footage

Guidelines

• Your video should be at least 5 – 7 minutes long excluding end credits

• You must include a narration of the key ideas

• You must use at least one clip from C-SPAN

• Photographs, videos, and interviews filmed by you should be included

• Music can be included

• Cite your sources

TOPIC SELECTION

• Record information on your group sheet. Each person in the group completes one.

• Group members

• Topic research will focus on for the documentary

• Begin researching ideas and keep track of notes and sources using Noodle Tools and the information sheet.

RESEARCH• Find all the information you can – facts and opinions – you can

on the issue.

• Be sure to keep track of the information on Noodle Tools

• Reflect on questions on group sheet

• Create sources (a minimum of 5) for note cards

• Record facts in paraphrase area and my ideas on note cards (15 – 20 cards total)

• Create an annotated works cited for your sources including detailed descriptions of the source.

Noodle Tools

• Create the Works Cited

• Write an annotation for each source.

• When selecting sources and writing the annotations you want to focus on:• ACCURACY

• RELIABILITY

• CURRENCY

Sample Works Cited Entry

• Nneka, Helen. "Creating a Digital Footprint as a Optimizing the Personal Branding of Libraies in the Digital Society." EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science. www.ebscohost.com, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=1853c6a0-619b-4047-8752-380535000822%40sessionmgr11&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=lxh&AN=85104631>.

• Popek, Emily. Understanding the World of User-Generated Conttent. New York: Daily Star, 2011. Print.

• "Your Permanent Record." Rosen-Digital Literacy. Rosen Publishing Group, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2013. <http://digitalliteracy.rosendigital.com/article/442?search=digital%20footprint>.

Sample Works Cited Entry

Arnol, Stephen E. "Internet user at risk." Internet user at risk 9.1 (2001): 1-54. EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=b8abed80-a03a-4e9f-ae01-8931d8bcee15%40sessionmgr15&hid=11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=3997428>.

In this artical it explains digital footprint and privacy.There is no privacy on the internet.This soures has information on my topic.I understand the information. This soures does have the information I need. This information is reliabal. This sourse will help me with my assignment Also this sourse dose not have pictures charts or graphs.

Sample Works Cited Entry

"Asthma and Air Pollution." Natural Resources Defense Council. Natural Resources      Defense Council, 8 June 2005. Web. 3 Oct. 2013.

Asthma and Air Pollution is about all the air pollutants that trigger asthma.      Asthma kills over5,000 people each year in the United States, and it is also     responsible for 2,000,000 million emergency-room visits a year. One cause of     Asthmas is ground level ozone. It can be triggered by many cars like in New York     City. Ground level ozone is one of many causes of asthma, but no you can see that      we have an impact on many American's deaths. If there where only bicycles      and no cars we could save around 5,000 peoples lives each year. Overall,      this article focuses on asthma and air pollution caused by us.

Noodle Tools

• Create the notecards for main ideas related to the story board of your documentary.

• Be sure to include: title, quotations, paraphrasing, my ideas, source, URL information

Source

Notes

Everything stays linked

Feedback

Go to the tabletop to see all your notecards

Check the bird’s eye view for out-of-sight notecards

A notecard is an organizer for ideas

Copy and paste here

• Capture the author’s words and images

• Get quotes and attribution right• Mark up the quote

Paraphrase or summarize

Paraphrase here• Explain it to yourself• In words you understand• Look back at the quote – got it

all?

Original thinking here

• What do you wonder?• How does this fit with what you

know?• What can you follow up on?

“My Ideas” is for questions, brainstorming…

You’ll get quotes and attribution right!

Then start to mark it up

Close reading boosts your comprehension

Help

Explain it to yourself

Help

If you have trouble identifying a main idea:1. Reread the quote to get the “gist.” 2. Is there more than one main idea? If so, just

split your quote into two notecards.

Help

Use “My Ideas” in a flexible way

If your note isn’t linked to a source, find it in this list of all your sources

If you can, add a tag now…

…when you know more it will be easier!

Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop

Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs to be done and what’s important.

Works Cited Format

• Use MLA format

• Refer to Purdue OWL MLA Citations for assistance for selecting proper format

• Avoid using n.p. in citations – before printing off final copy those need to be deleted