11/21 Becoming a Web Critic

Do Now: Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and define it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Web Critic

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Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Watch the video: Internet Search. Take the Internet Search quiz in Engrade.

Read: Becoming a Web Critic

Question of the Day:  Is everything you read on the Internet true?

How do you determine which sites are the best ones to use for your research when so many are available?

Check out these websites. Use Common Sense Media: Test Before You Trust worksheet.

1. All About Explorers
2. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
3. California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge
4. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
5. Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
6. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
7. British Stick Insect Foundation
8. The Jackalope Conspiracy
9. Buy Dehydrated Water
10. Wossamotta U.
11. Dog Island

Daily Objectives: 

• Using the World Wide Web and a blog, students will describe similarities and differences, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 65% on writing rubric.
• Students will read, discuss and analyze information from articles, analyze, and think critically about online context, using written (Blog post), graphic, pictorial, or multi-media methods, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 6 out of 12 on the project rubric.
• Given a variety of multimedia texts and videos, students will analyze online issues and tecnological effects, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 65% on writing rubric.
• Students will watch videos and complete an assessment with 65% or better.

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Do Now : Search for the definition for the Word of the Day and define it in your own words.  
Word of the Day: Image Location

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Post a response to the Question of the Day in your own words using complete sentences, use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Question of the Day: Why do you need to know the location of an image to include it on your Webpage?

 Complete the assignments below:

• 4. HTML IMAGES
• 4C. IMAGES Webpage  Add your super hero image to your assignment.
• 5D. HTML LINKS WEBPAGE
• 6. HTML BACKGROUNDS
• 6E. HTML Fonts Webpage
• 7. HTML TABLES

Daily Objectives: 

• Students will read the text on HTML Links to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing, with a student performance at the basic level or above and 65% on writing rubric.
• After reading the text, students will complete the HTML Links assessment, with a score of 9 out of 10 or better.
• Using Dreamweaver students will create an HTML Web Page, with a student performance at the basic level