1. Mrs. Kercher 7th Grade Gifted
C-SPAN STUDENT CAM
Mrs. Kercher
7th Grade Gifted

2. TOPIC - 2014 This Year’s Challenge: A Message to the U.S. Congress
What’s the most important issue the U.S. Congress should consider in 2014?
Click here to view topic areas and C-SPAN footage

3. Guidelines
Your video should be at least 5 – 7 minutes long excluding end credits
You must include a narration of the key ideas
You must use at least one clip from C-SPAN
Photographs, videos, and interviews filmed by you should be included
Music can be included
Cite your sources

4. TOPIC SELECTION
Record information on your group sheet. Each person in the group completes one.
Group members
Topic research will focus on for the documentary
Begin researching ideas and keep track of notes and sources using Noodle Tools and the information sheet.

5. RESEARCH
Find all the information you can – facts and opinions – you can on the issue.
Be sure to keep track of the information on Noodle Tools
Reflect on questions on group sheet
Create sources (a minimum of 5) for note cards
Record facts in paraphrase area and my ideas on note cards (15 – 20 cards total)
Create an annotated works cited for your sources including detailed descriptions of the source.

6. Noodle Tools Create the Works Cited
Write an annotation for each source.
When selecting sources and writing the annotations you want to focus on:
ACCURACY
RELIABILITY
CURRENCY

7. Sample Works Cited Entry
Nneka, Helen. "Creating a Digital Footprint as a Optimizing the Personal Branding of Libraies in the Digital Society." EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science. n.d. Web. 30 Oct < %40sessionmgr11&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#d b=lxh&AN= >.
Popek, Emily. Understanding the World of User-Generated Conttent. New York: Daily Star, Print.
"Your Permanent Record." Rosen-Digital Literacy. Rosen Publishing Group, n.d. Web. 11 Oct <

8. Sample Works Cited Entry
Arnol, Stephen E. "Internet user at risk." Internet user at risk 9.1 (2001): EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science. Web. 31 Oct < 8931d8bcee15%40sessionmgr15&hid=11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d% 3d#db=f5h&AN= >. In this artical it explains digital footprint and privacy.There is no privacy on the internet.This soures has information on my topic.I understand the information. This soures does have the information I need. This information is reliabal. This sourse will help me with my assignment Also this sourse dose not have pictures charts or graphs.

9. Sample Works Cited Entry
"Asthma and Air Pollution." Natural Resources Defense Council. Natural Resources Defense Council, 8 June Web. 3 Oct Asthma and Air Pollution is about all the air pollutants that trigger asthma. Asthma kills over5,000 people each year in the United States, and it is also responsible for 2,000,000 million emergency-room visits a year. One cause of Asthmas is ground level ozone. It can be triggered by many cars like in New York City. Ground level ozone is one of many causes of asthma, but no you can see that we have an impact on many American's deaths. If there where only bicycles and no cars we could save around 5,000 peoples lives each year. Overall, this article focuses on asthma and air pollution caused by us.

10. Noodle Tools
Create the notecards for main ideas related to the story board of your documentary.
Be sure to include: title, quotations, paraphrasing, my ideas, source, URL information

11. Everything stays linked
Source
Notes
Feedback
Everything stays linked

12. Go to the tabletop to see all your notecards

13. Check the bird’s eye view for out-of-sight notecards

14. A notecard is an organizer for ideas
Copy and paste here
Capture the author’s words and images
Get quotes and attribution right
Mark up the quote

15. Paraphrase or summarize
Paraphrase here
Explain it to yourself
In words you understand
Look back at the quote – got it all?

16. Original thinking here
“My Ideas” is for questions, brainstorming…
Original thinking here
What do you wonder?
How does this fit with what you know?
What can you follow up on?

17. You’ll get quotes and attribution right!

18. Then start to mark it up

21. Close reading boosts your comprehension
Help
Close reading boosts your comprehension

22. Explain it to yourself
Help

23. If you have trouble identifying a main idea:
Reread the quote to get the “gist.”
Is there more than one main idea? If so, just split your quote into two notecards.

24. Help

25. Use “My Ideas” in a flexible way

26. If your note isn’t linked to a source, find it in this list of all your sources

27. If you can, add a tag now…

28. …when you know more it will be easier!

29. Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop

30. Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs to be done and what’s important.

31. Works Cited Format Use MLA format
Refer to Purdue OWL MLA Citations for assistance for selecting proper format
Avoid using n.p. in citations – before printing off final copy those need to be deleted