Farewell!

I wish all of you the best of luck in your future endeavors, and make sure to drop me a line to inform me of your educational success. I have decided to seek new opportunities outside of the Buffalo Public School district, but can be reached via email (mrmalley04@yahoo.com). Better yet, befriend me on Facebook.

It's been a pleasure teaching all of you and good luck in all that you do.

To anyone outside of class who has been checking in on what we're doing, I am retiring this site, as I'm no longer tangibly in room 305 (although spiritually I will always be there...or something like that). If you like the kind of stuff my kids did, stop back. I'll be posting links to my new classroom blogs in the coming months.

Questions? Problems? Concerns?

Seeking guidance? Use the comment section of this post for any questions related to class and I will respond promptly or address the question in class.

Exhibitions

Between June 4th - 11th you will be presenting an exhibition of your knowledge/learning/understanding you gained from your inquiry project. You will select a date tomorrow.

As I've said before, I expect your exhibitions to be a creative repackaging of the ideas and essence of your project. Look to the last post for ideas, but I do not expect, nor would I encourage, you to stand in front of the class empty handed and talk at us for five minutes.

Senior Inquiry Project - Exhibition Ideas

Today in class we discussed your ideas about your exhibition. Here are the ideas you came up with. Make sure this says at the top of your "to do" list. If the print is too small, you can look over the outline form right here.

Drum Roll Please! Final Reflection

Comments are Back in Business!

Hello folks. Back by popular demand! COMMENTS! You are required to make five comments between now and Friday, May 24th. Keep me posted on the bulletin board by highlighting the appropriate space on the checklist.

Note: These comments are to be about content and ideas, not observations about grammar/spelling/punctuation. If you find that one of your peers have made a comment based on mechanical concerns notify me right away so that I can rectify the situation.

Effective Searching

Fine Tuning Your Blog

This Week - Editing Workshop

This week we're going to look at your first posts about your research process. I'm going to assign ten of you to copy and paste your week one process post to Google docs and print out five copies.

1. Sign in to Blogger
   
2. Open Microsoft Word
   
3. Find your 2nd blog about your research.
4. Copy the text from your blog and paste it into Microsoft Word
   
5. Print five copies to the library: the printer with WCP55 in the title. If you can fit multiple copies of your post on one page, do so to save paper.
   

Infotrac

The BPS pays for student access to Infotrac. It is advisable that you familiarize yourself with using a database as you will do much college research in this medium. Here are some advantages to using this database:

1. hundreds of thousands of articles from magazines, reputable journals, newspapers, and other sources.
2. search terms are not limited or blocked
3. articles have been reviewed to ensure accuracy
   

When you use Infotrac, you have to choose a different citation form on the Citation Machine. Choose "Work from a Subscription Service Accessed through a Library - one or more authors
Author." It is under "Non-print" but you must choose to view more sources.

Citation Machine Instructional Video

Hey folks. If you're checking this from school today (Monday), then right on! Take today to work on the blog post that is due today. I'll see you tomorrow.

Hey, if you are having trouble adding an annotation, then check out this video! I made it last night.