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KWL/Key Vocabulary - Cyber-bullying

Complete the KWL based on your knowledge of Cyber-bullying:

What do you KNOW about cyber-bullying: Cyber Bullying is is bullying someone over the internet

What do you WANT to know about cyber-bullying: Why do people cyber bully

What did you LEARN about cyber-bullying: 

To the best of your ability please define the following vocab words within the context of the topic of cyber-bullying.

Target: The person or something being bullied

Offender: The person being bullied

Bystander: a person who knows about the situation or has seen it

Upstander: Someone who does something about the situation

Escalate: the problem gets bigger

De-escalate: the problem gets smaller

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Popplet is the best app for sharing visual ideas.

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HW #10 - Project time!

1.  Finish your Pixton or Story Bird and post the public link to your Tumblr.  If you worked with a partner you BOTH must post the link on your Tumblr; you will not receive credit for this assignment (two homework grades) if you do not post the link.

2.  Please finish your Fact or Opinion worksheet if you did not finish it in class.  I will be collecting it at the next Digilit class so please remember to bring it with you!

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Project time - website evaluation!

Create a children’s book (using StoryBird) or a comic (using Pixton) that is designed to teach middle schoolers about website evaluation.  

If you create a comic: you must chose the “sunday funny” comic type and select one of the templates with seven frames. 

If you create a storybird: you must select a template of artwork and your book must be at least 10 pages (with text on all of these pages) long.

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Homework #9

Information.com What about this website do you like? Not like? - I liked how the website was very reliable and straight foward but I don't like how hard it is to navigate and find info Does this website meet most of the “Five Ws” criteria as a legit source? Why or why not? yes it does because it gives accurate information and that the key to a research paper. - yes it does meet the five ws because it answers all the questions about a person and it gives accurate information Knowing what you know now after today’s class, would you continue to use this website as a source for school research? Why or why not? - Yes because it's reliable easy to use and gives very good information

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KWL - Website Evaluation

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What do you want to KNOW about website evalution? - I want to know exactly what it is What do you know about website evalution? - how to evaluate. Website

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Want food? Create a video!

By Tuesday, March 5 post a video to Tumblr.

About what?  In 30 seconds or less, tell Mrs. Thomas what you like BEST about DigiLit and/or how it’s been a useful class.

Every student who participates and posts a video will receive a delicious prize!

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Homework #8 1. Based on the “Make a Search Plan” activity we did in class, post your responses to the S-E-A-R-CH questions in this text post below. You also need to include the city you chose, the name of the park you chose, and the URL (website) for the park. S: Is it organized and nice? Yes. Does it have a baseball field? Yes E: "baseball" "courts" "fields" "skate park" " New Bedford" A: A public clean park with baseball fields a skatepark and courts in New Bedford R: New Bedford public parks CH: Clean New Bedford parks MA with baseball fields City: New Bedford Name of park: Brooklawn URL of park: http://www.rixsan.com/nbvisit/recreate/brookpk.htm 2. Try out Google-a-day (http://agoogleaday.com/) with friends or family members. Post a response below addressing what you thought of the “game” and how it might be a useful tool for improving search strategy skills.

Digi Lit!: HW #8: Park Search and “A Google A Day”  (via mpereira16st)

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From the site: All My Faves will take you where you want to go online with just one click by offering a visual-based approach to Web navigation and site discovery. Our visual platform not only makes finding familiar sites 1-click simple, but it also invites you to discover new, top rated online resources within the same category. 

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What I learned from watching this video: I learned that if you put quotes around what your trying to search for that you will have a better chance of finding what you need

Digi Lit!: Web Search Strategies in Plain English   (via mpelletier16st)

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digilit16: Questions - To the best of your ability and based on your own experiences, please answer the following questions: 1. Is it important to have a strategy when searching the web? Why or why not? Yes because you want to know what your searching for. 2. Have you ever used a website for school purposes (paper, project, etc.) that you were unsure was a legitimate source? Yes, google and Wikipedia Key Vocab - To the best of your ability, please define the following terms: Effective: successful Efficient: Useful and productive Strategy: A method of doing something

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