10/1/10 Lab Day

Visit this link for the PBS Video.

Photographers:
Visit this link and enter into the caption-writing contest. Maybe your caption be the next one featured on the Scholastic website!

Features:
Here is a fun idea for a feature article. Create a riddle in which you give a description of a person, place, or thing. The next month, we will reveal the answer to the riddle. Here is an example: Click here.

9/24/10 Lab Day

Wildcat Swag website!

Comics link

Technology link

Noodle Tools Sign-Up

Today, we're going to work on our bibliographies using the information you found yesterday in the media center.

Link 1: First, watch this Jing video to learn how to sign up for NoodleTools. A new page will open. Be sure to close it when you finish watching the video.

Your personal ID will be: mckeelfirstnamelastname
Password: Last 6 numbers of your ID number.

Initials: First initial of your first and last name. For example, Gina Terry would be GT.
Phone: Last 4 digits of your home phone or cell number.

Be sure that you write your Noodle Tools login information in your agenda while you are signing up.

Link 2: Now, click here to create your login for Noodle Tools.

9/17/19 Lab Day

Ten tips for good writing:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/tentips.html

Preparing for interviews:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/interviewing.html

Getting ready to cover an event:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/covering-news.html

Photography links:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/taking-pictures.html

http://www.jurgwittwer.com/course.htm

http://www.jprof.com/photojn/rulesforstudentphotojns.pdf

Fiction writing:

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/journal-prompts.html

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/#

http://www.creative-writing-solutions.com/creative-writing-prompts.html

Features ideas:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/featurewriting.html

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/cr_begin/sample_fashion.html

http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/424-Feature-writing

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson987/QualititesFeatureStory.pdf

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson987/SampleLeadsforFeatureStories.pdf

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson987/Prewritingquestions_interesting.pdf

http://www.capmembers.com/media/cms/Feature_writing_tips_90338328C01BE.pdf

Brainstorming Ideas:
Foreign exchange students

Part-time jobs

Teacher features

Unusual hobbies

Favorite movies

Favorite celebrities restaurants

Fast-food

Fashion trends

Top ten lists

Advice columns

Talk radio

Weird cravings

Crazy answering machine messages

Sports writers:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/sportswriting.html

http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/idea-file/16980/100-sports-features-ideas/

Arts and entertainment:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/artsentertainment.html

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/musicreporting.html

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/cr_begin/sample_bandreview.html

http://www.ehow.com/list_6702181_art-project-ideas-made-trash.html

http://lakelandcommunitytheatre.com/

http://www.polkmuseumofart.org/content/

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/80480/art_galleries_in_polk_county_florida.html

7^th grade events:

http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/

http://www.organicgardening.com/

http://www.organicgardeningguru.com/

Web development:

http://www.snn-rdr.ca/snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/onlinewriting.html

Technology writers:

http://www.technologyreview.com/

http://www.mdc.edu/ctd/nisod/19.pdf

Comics:

http://www.toondoo.com/

www.makebeliefscomix.com

Great Newspaper Sites!

Visit these sites to get some ideas for your articles!

Middle School News Papers Online:
The Lowell
The Lion's Roar

Other news:
The Ledger
Fox News
ABC News

Writing Process Quiz

Okay... let's see how you're doing with the five steps of the writing process! Take out your agenda and look up your information for your QuizStar login.


In QuizStar, you will click on the "1 Untaken Quizzes" on the first screen,
...and then choose to "take" the "Writing Process" quiz on the next screen.
Look below to my last post if you need a reminder of how to find today's quiz.
You have 15 minutes to take the quiz -- it's timed so don't dally!


Come back to my blog when you are finished and read below for today's web link...


Ready? CLICK HERE to take the quiz!


Alright, how did you do on the quiz? If you need extra review before you move on, grab a WriteSource textbook and reread pages 5-7.

Okay, so yesterday, we worked on brainstorming and outlining. Today, we're going to use those skills again. 

Click here when your finished with your quiz and begin looking through the jogtheweb.com presentation.

Media Center Madness

A library in East Asia.

How savvy are you about life in the media center at McKeel Academy? We're going to take a quiz on the website QuizStar to find out how well you listened to Mrs. Hearn's presentation yesterday!

First, click here to find out your login information for QuizStar. Be sure to write this down in your agenda.

Your password is your McKeel ID beginning with 5300.

When you go to QuizStar, you will click on "1 Untaken Quiz" (look below).

Then...

When you're finished, work on your penzu.com journal entry. Be sure to share it with me at ginamterry@gmail.com by tonight.

You may also work on Kid's College (login info on board).

If you're done with all that, check out one of the following cool sights:

The Story of Stuff

Storybird

Free Rice

Ready? Click here to go to QuizStar.