Source Evaluation

Who?

http://www.columbuslibrary.org/ 

http://www.truthout.org/

Why?

http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=14

What?

http://www.gotmilk.com

http://www.milksucks.com/index2.asp

When?

Where?

http://delicious.com/

Informative Speech Project

Today you will be selecting a topic to research and create an outline. This is an informative project that will consist of three parts. For now we will only be focusing on the outline. Latter in the semester you will be creating a PowerPoint and speech on this topic, so assure you choose a topic that you are truly interested in.

Tasks

1. Click Here For a list of possible topics (Browse this list to find a topic you are interested in)

2. Post the topic of your choice on the pagecast message board, in a complete sentence. 

3. Start a new word document save as "sources" Using your search skills start to do some research on your chosen topic. DO NOT TAKE ANY NOTES YET. Find some sources that you feel are good sources and paste the URL in to your word document.

4. After you have done some research on your topic try to come up with the three sub topics for your chosen issue.

Example-  Mountain Bike.

1.History.

2.opportunies for ridding while living in Montana.

3.  Future of the sport

Again by the end of the period you should have posted your topic on the message board, have a word document with at least 5 sources that you think are good sources, and brainstormed three sub points that will support your stance. See example above.

Tuesday we will be discussing how to evaluate sources. 

Directions for Tuesday

Columns and Sections

Today's' assignment you will be working with columns and sections. 

Follow the directions on the sheet. You will need to use section and column breaks. 

Section Breaks- (insert continuous section breaks)

Column Breaks- Sends you to the top of the next column

Columns- Formant- Columns- and choose the number of columns you want. 

Your test will be on Thursday we will review on Wednesday.

Directions for Monday 9/15 & Tuesday 9/16

Monday

1. Finish up your calendar assignment in publisher.

2. We will now be starting word. In the shared folder there is a video called "letterhead&Formatting"

3. Get headphones from the closet, the "Then Do" sheet from lectern, and open the word file titled "Then do" from the shared folder before you watch the video.

Monday's Assignments

1. Calendar

2. save as "Personal Letterhead"

3. save as "Then Do " 

Tuesday Tables

Today you will be working on another video tutorial. In the shared folder find the video titled "tables".  Stop: before you watch the video get headphones from the closet and the resume sheet from the lectern. 

Tuesday's Assignments 

1. save as "resume"

2. save as "application"

We will probably finish up "application" on Wednesday. If you have any questions or problems please post in the comments for this post. 

Thanks Mr. Herbert

Calendar Assignment

Today your final Publisher Assignment will be to create a two month calendar using the wizard 

Grading Criteria

1. two months

2. four events

3. formatted pictures

4. work art

5. altered from original design. (change colors, font,etc.)

6. Personal Information

7. two 3D objects

Trivia Newsletter

You are to create a newsletter that covers random trivia facts about a topic of your choice. Your news letter must be at least four pages. You must make use of the various tasks we have covered thus far in class.

Grading will consist of…….

Layout: did you customize your newsletter or simply use the pre-loaded layout? Did you make use of design gallery objects, photos, clip art, Drop Cap.

Content: Is your content relevant and well organized. Your content should be easy for the reader to navigate.

Work Cited: On the back page of your news letter you must cite the web pages you use to obtain your information. This can be just a simple list of the URLs.

Your Newsletter must include the following features

• Word Art
• Formatted Pictures 
• Drop Caps
• Design Gallery Objects
• Auto Shape
• Original design template in the top right corner of first page
• Formatted Text Boxes (border, fill etc.)
• Work Cited must be hyperlinked