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When a citation is not needed
Common sense and ethics should determine your need for documenting sources. You do not need to give sources for familiar proverbs, well-known quotations or common knowledge. Remember, this is a rhetorical choice, based on audience. If you’re writing for an expert audience of a scholarly journal, for example, they’ll have different expectations of what constitutes common knowledge.
Read – Purdue OWL – In-Text Citations: the Basics
With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL’s Evaluating Sources of Informationresource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.
Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:
Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.
Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com orForbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.
Students will understand how ancient civilizations developed and how they contributed to the current state of the world.
Essential Questions
How did physical geography influence the location and success or decline of early civilizations?
What role has religion played in human development from ancient times to modern?
How are the systems of power, authority, and governance used to establish order in ancient civilizations still present in today’s modern governments?
How did the people of early civilizations use innovation and technology to meet personal and community needs?
Rubrics and samples of student work are on the class wiki: http://icsworldcultures.wikispaces.com/home
Treasury in Petra, Jordan
Essential Questions based on UbD unit at
http://www.uen.org/core/socialstudies/sixth/eueq.shtml
I tried to embed the video Plagiarism from the Common Craft website here on this website but couldn’t get it to work. This was confusing since the Common Craft videos from youtube, such as Social Media and Social Networking in previous posts, worked very nicely. I was happy that both edublogs and Common Craft responded quickly to help me figure out the source of the problem. I had dropped the Edublogs Pro account because I wasn’t using it withe students yet and wanted to save some money. I mainly this edublogs account as lesson starters for students so a free edublogs.org account is sufficient for my needs at this time.. It turns out that without an Edublogs Pro account I can no longer embed videos.
Tip #1: Use the URL to identify the domain name and web extensions and what they represent.
URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. The domain name is located after the http:// in the URL. For instance, the domain name for Incarnation Catholic School is icstampa.org. The domain name for Incarnation Catholic Church is icctampa.org.
The extensions in the URL provide additional clues to the identify and authorship of a website.
For a list of country codes view Web Country Codes
Tip #2: Truncate the URL section by section
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
to http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ to learn that the information is hosted on and part of the University of California Berkeley Library web site. Knowing the documents are part of the official Berkeley library gives it authenticity.
Practice Truncating: What is the domain for each of the following:
Tip #3: Observe the URL grammar.
If a tilde (~), %, or a person’s name or the word “user” after the domain name is in the web address, it is a personal directory and not an official part of the website. In the following example, http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml, the information on plagiarism is in the personal directory of wts. It is not part of the official indiana.edu website. This means the information must be evaluated based on the information contained within the web page, and is not automatically valid because it appears to be on a university web site.
Identify the web grammar elements in this URLs. What is the domain? Who created each web page? Is each an official part of the domain website?
Tip #4: Find who links to a site.
In Alta Vista use the “link web addess” command. This shows who links to the site and also shows how many sites link to the site. Look at the Ova Prima site, then use link www.ovaprima.org in Google or link:www.ovaprima.org in Alta Vista search windows to how many and what type of sites link to the Ova Prima site.
Tip #5: Study historical information about a site.
Use Way Back Machine at www.archive.org to find the history of a site. Enter the URL of the site in question. You can see when the website was revised. If you have a link that is no longer active but you know the URL, you can enter the URL in Way Back Machine to view the contents. Think about the implications for FaceBook and MySpace users! Yes. What you put on today will still be sitting on some computer, possibly years from now.
Be an Internet Librarian. Use the 5W’s and the tips on URL Detective to compare the following pairs of websites. Decide if the information on each website is fact or fiction. Keep track of the steps you take to evaluate each web site. You will have to provide an annotation, a statement explaining how you know the information is valid, reliable and true facts.
Topic 1: Endangered Species
Topic 2: Crops
Topic 3: Early Explorers
Topic 4: Weather
Topic 5: Dogs
Topic 6: A Dangerous Chemical
Topic 7: The Mind
*** View ICS Digital Help Web Search Strategies ***
Several links above are from Kathy Schrock’s list
Who
What
Where
When
Why
Summary: OK to use? Be prepared to defend the source of information. Can you annotate the information website with a statement about how you know this is a valid, reliable, up-to-date source of information. Yes or No?
5Ws: Based on information from: Web 2.0 Applications for Children’s Services Summer/Fall 2007 – This material has been created by Bonnie L. Peirce for the Infopeople Project [infopeople.org], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Any use of this material should credit the author and funding source.
Search in more than one search engine. The list on NoodleTools website provides an excellent summary of places to look depending on your research topic:
Kid-Safe Search Engines
Frequently Used Search Engines
