Again:

• think 5W!  Who? What When? Where? Why? and…How?
• include 2 or 3 pictures (available on the Multimedia drive inside 2009-2010 School Year) AND format them properly!!
• a GREAT title is required
• add a link to the Evergreen Brickworks website
• format your post to look PERFECT
• have another two students ‘critique’ your piece
• make the changes suggested by your critics!

You are working for an advertising company and must create a travel guide for tourists to Ontario.

Follow the links below and find the information requested.

• Write all the responses in Word (just a suggestion!)
• Collect pictures along the way – from the sites.  We have permission and do not need to worry about Creative Commons!

Product:

Create any one of the following:

• website using WordPress
• brochure using MS Word or MS Publisher
• movie using Premiere Elements (kind of hard if you don’t know the software)
• poster with pieces printed out from your computer

Due Date:

You will have several days for this. BUT, I expect to see MAJOR progress on this tomorrow.

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Sudbury – The Big Nickel
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/sudbury.html
• How tall is the big nickel? How thick?
• How many sides does the nickel have?

Cochrane – The Dream Catcher Express
http://www.northlander.ca/newdreamcatcher/dchome.htm
• What does the Dream Catcher Express make it possible to view?
• What are some things you can do in Temagami?
• What are three features of the Dream Catcher Express?

North Bay – The Dionne Quintuplet Museum
http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/quints/digitize/dionne.htm
• What were the names of the five quintuplets?
• What was their combined weight at birth?
• The museum is housed in the original ______________ homestead.

Bracebridge – Santa’s Village & Sportsland
http://www.santasvillage.ca/
• What sort of animals would you find at Santa’s Village?
• What year was Santa’s Village established?
• Santa’s Village is located ________ between the equator and the north pole, on the ______th parallel.
• What other places share the 45th parallel?

St. Thomas – Jumbo the Elephant
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/st_thomas.html
• What was Jumbo built to commemorate?
• How much does he weigh?
• What is he made of?
• Where did Jumbo die?
• What are the statues legs made of?
• How much money was raised towards building Jumbo?

London – The Museum of Ontario Archeology

http://www.uwo.ca/museum/

• Name three exhibits at the museum.
• How are longhouses constructed?
• Be sure to check out the virtual museum section! There are some neat things in there.

London – Storybook Gardens
http://www.storybook.london.ca/
• What sorts of animals call the Enchanted Forest home?
• What can I find just outside the Storybook Garden’s Castle?

Cambridge – African Lion Safari

http://www.lionsafari.com/
• How is the African Lion Safari’s approach to exhibiting the animals different than that of normal zoos?
• When did they first open? How many animals did they have?
• Rhinoceros are some of the most _______________ species in the world. • What are the two largest species of rhino?
• On the attractions page, there is a Quick Fact, randomly selected. Type me the quick fact that appeared on your page.

Toronto – Royal Ontario Museum
http://www.rom.on.ca/
• Name some of the exhibits at the ROM.
• Tell me one cool fact about the ROM.

Toronto – Bata Shoe Museum
http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/
• Check out the virtual exhibit “On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada” at http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Ground/english/intro.html.
• What are some of the animals that inspired the design of snow shoes?
• What is a footed trouser? Who wore them?
• How were moccasins decorated?

Tyrconnell – Backus Page House
http://www.backuspagehouse.ca/
• Who built the Backus Page House?
• Name some things in the house that are still original.
• How many thousands of bricks is the house made of? What were the bricks made from?

Port Stanley – Festival Theatre
http://www.psft.on.ca/ (Click on About Us)
• How many seats are in the theatre?
• Name two plays that will be performed at the theatre.

Stratford – Stratford Festival
http://www.stratford-festival.on.ca/
• How many people does the Festival Theatre seat?
• No seat is further than ____ feet from the stage.
• Name three rooms that are contained backstage.

Toronto – The CN Tower
http://www.cntower.ca/
• The CN Tower is the world’s tallest building at __________ metres.
• How many people visit the CN tower each year?
• What year was the CN tower built in?
• How high is the glass floor?
• How high is Sky Pod, the world’s tallest observation deck?

Toronto – The Rogers Centre (Skydome)
http://www.rogerscentre.com/
• What record did the Rogers Centre set in 1992?
• How big is the diameter of the Rogers Centre?
• How much seating is there for baseball? Concerts? What is the seating at full capacity?

Ottawa – The Parliament Buildings
http://www.parliamenthill.gc.ca/

• What are some of the online projects underway at the Parliament Buildings?

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Thanks for taking this virtual tour of Ontario with me!

Modified and with gratitude to:Jennifer Loos, CAP Dutton Library 2006.

http://capstats.ocl.net/wiki/index.php?title=Typing_Tour_of_Ontario_Scavenger_Hunt

Create a PowerPoint presentation to use for this purpose.  (Use TIG graphics or resources as required.)

Think what you might need to say to convince them to join!

Use these questions to guide you: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?

You will be evaluated as before on ‘effective presentations’ PLUS your ‘time management’ skills.  In other words, GET IT DONE and BE READY!

NOTE:  You must do this work independently.

“In this challenge, you will learn how to judge the authority and credibility of information posted on the Internet.”

Authority

• What does it mean to say someone is an author?
• What does it mean to say someone is an authority on a topic?
• Are all authors authorities on their topic? Why, or why not?
• Under what conditions would an author be an authority?

Practise assessing credibility

Let’s examine these sites and generate some criteria for determining whether a website is credible.

• Martin Luther King – http://www.martinlutherking.ca/
• Martin Luther King – http://martinlutherking.org/

• http://www.genochoice.com
• http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

Credible Authorities

Using the Credible Authorities overhead – discuss as a class how credible each source is for the research topic listed.

Website Pairs

1. Choose one of these pair of sites.
2. Complete the Comparing Credibility chart.

• Website #1 Dream Technologies – Clones R Us  http://www.d-b.net/dti/
• Website #2 News on Human Cloning  http://hawaii.edu/ur/News_Releases/NR_July98/cloning.html

• Website #1 Human Growth Hormone: Does it slow aging? http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/growth-hormone/ha00030
• Website #2 Facts about Growth Hormone  http://cosmicdome.com/hc3.asp

As a reporter for the Toronto Star Online, write an blog post predicting what society would be like if people had no decent code of ethics (no sense of right or wrong)  and totally relied on laws to govern their behaviour.

Please refer to the book Pages 267 – 292 for details on specific legal and ethical issues.  Also, ask individual students for their expertise on specific ethical or legal issues.

Criteria:

• Strong Headline
• Strong thesis statement
• Supporting arguments and evidence
• Concluding Paragraph

Expectations Addressed:

• demonstrate an understanding of legal, social, and ethical issues relating to information and communication technology
• —-describe legal issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., freedom of information, piracy, copyright)
• —-analyse ethical issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., spam, plagiarism, unauthorized downloading, inappropriate or dangerous sites or usage, power to promote hatred and discriminatory attitudes)

TASK:

Each of you has chosen an issue based on the reading and discussion of the last few days (see previous post).  Your job is to do further research according to the research model which involves first developing a ‘driving question’ to guide your inquiry.

We distinguished between ‘inquiry’ and ‘research’.  Inquiry is the question – research is the process of  ‘seeking information’ to answer that question.

Create a Presentation

• Brainstorm what you know
• Generate the ‘driving question’
• Generate the sub-questions
• Do the research and note-taking
• Write your script
• Create your electronic presentation by all the guidelines we have set out.
• Use CC licensed graphics
• Rehearse

Assessment: Formative

Expectations Addressed:

• demonstrate an understanding of legal, social, and ethical issues relating to information and communication technology
• —-describe legal issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., freedom of information, piracy, copyright)
• —-analyse ethical issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., spam, plagiarism, unauthorized downloading, inappropriate or dangerous sites or usage, power to promote hatred and discriminatory attitudes)
• analyse privacy and security issues relating to information and communication technology
• —-describe privacy or security issues related to  information and communication technology

• use presentation software to create and deliver effective presentations
• —-identify guidelines for designing an effective electronic presentation
• —-create electronic presentations for specific purposes and audiences
• —-use software features (e.g., slide transitions, slide layouts, design templates, animation, sound) to enhance presentations
• —-use effective presentation skills when delivering an electronic presentation (e.g., plan for room dynamics; verbally emphasize important points and support them with screen images)

Presentation Assessment PowerPoint Scoring Rubric

LEVEL 1

• (K) demonstrates limited knowledge of content
• (T/I) uses planning skills with limited effectiveness
• (C) PowerPoint has far too many words/is cluttered
• (C)PowerPoint has very weak/ineffective/non-CC images
• (C)expresses and organizes ideas with limited effectiveness
• (A) Applies knowledge and skills in familiar and/or new contexts with limited effectiveness

LEVEL 2

• (K) demonstrates some knowledge of content
• (T/I) uses planning skills with some effectiveness
• (C)PowerPoint has too many words/is cluttered
• (C)PowerPoint has weak/ineffective/non-CC images
• (C)expresses and organizes ideas with some effectiveness
• (A) Applies knowledge and skills in familiar and/or new contexts with someeffectiveness

LEVEL 3

• (K) demonstrates considerable knowledge of content
• (T/I) uses planning skills with considerable effectiveness
• (C)PowerPoint has few words/is reasonably clean
• (C)PowerPoint has strong/effective/CC images
• (C)expresses and organizes ideas with considerable effectiveness
• (A) Applies knowledge and skills in familiar and/or new contexts with considerable effectiveness

LEVEL 4

• (K) demonstrates thorough knowledge of content
• (T/I) uses planning skills with a high degree of effectiveness
• (C)PowerPoint has few, strong words/is extremely clean
• (C)PowerPoint has very strong/effective/CC images
• (C)expresses and organizes ideas with a high degree of effectiveness
• (A) Applies knowledge and skills in familiar and/or new contexts with a high degree of effectiveness

• ethics
• ethical implications of posting, accessing, and transmitting data in an electronic age
• some of the legal issues relating to information technology

Read, and discuss, as a class Pages 267 – 294.

Expectations Addressed:

• demonstrate an understanding of legal, social, and ethical issues relating to information and communication technology

-describe legal issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., freedom of information, piracy, copyright)

-analyse ethical issues related to information and communication technology (e.g., spam, plagiarism, unauthorized downloading, inappropriate or dangerous sites or usage, power to promote hatred and discriminatory attitudes)

• analyse privacy and security issues relating to information and communication technology

- describe privacy or security issues related to  information and communication technology

TASK 2. Put a Creative Commons license on your blog.  You will need to copy and paste the code. Refer to this link to help: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

STEPS:

• Copy the code after you have been on the link above.
• Add a new Text Widget to your Sidebar and call it Creative Commons License
• Paste the code.
• Check to see if it works by looking at your site.
• Help everybody else to succeed!!

TASK 3. Make sure your blog is current, correct, and without error.  It is your public face!

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Overall Expectation:

• apply effective techniques when conducting electronic research

Specific Expectations:

• use the features (e.g., Boolean logic, advanced search, image search) of a variety of search engines to locate information;
• evaluate websites for usefulness, accuracy, validity, bias, appropriateness, and currency;
• use an accepted citation format (e.g., MLA,APA) to acknowledge electronic sources (e.g., websites, online magazine articles, personal e-mail messages).

I will be demonstrating and discussing this licensing option with you. Why? Copyright is an important issue.

YouTube Lessons

• Creative Commons – Get Creative
• A Shared Culture
• Sharing Creative Works – A Primer
• Professor Lawrence Lessig Explains Creative Commons

Lesson on the Creative Commons Licenses

Description of the Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses

Download the Creative Commons buttons, logos or icons.
http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

Have CC help you determine the license.
http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Articles

• Teaching Students about Creative Commons
• Creative Commons: A New Tool for Schools

TASK 1:

• Create a blog post called Creative Commons and answer these questions:

1. How does Creative Commons licensing benefit the ‘creator and publisher’.
2. How does Creative Commons licensing benefit the ‘consumer’, the reader.
3. Find three pictures with different Creative Commons licenses:

• post the picture with its license symbols
• explain what the creator allows you to do – and not do – with the images

Overall Expectation:

• apply effective techniques when conducting electronic research

Specific Expectations:

• use the features (e.g., Boolean logic, advanced search, image search) of a variety of search engines to locate information;
• evaluate websites for usefulness, accuracy, validity, bias, appropriateness, and currency;
• use an accepted citation format (e.g., MLA,APA) to acknowledge electronic sources (e.g., websites, online magazine articles, personal e-mail messages).