C-SPAN STUDENT CAM
Mrs. Kercher
7th Grade Gifted
TOPIC - 2015
• This Year’s Challenge: Road to the White House
• What’s the issue you most want candidates to discuss during the 2016
presidential campaign?
• Click here to view topic areas and C-SPAN footage
Guidelines
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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
TOPIC SELECTION
• Record information on your group sheet. Each person in the group
completes one.
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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.
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
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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.
Noodle Tools
• Create the Works Cited
• Write an annotation for each source.
• When selecting sources and writing the annotations you want
to focus on:
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ACCURACY
RELIABILITY
CURRENCY
Sample Works Cited Entry
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Nneka, Helen. "Creating a Digital Footprint as a Optimizing the Personal Branding of
Libraies in the Digital Society." EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science.
www.ebscohost.com, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2013.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=1853c6a0-619b-4047-8752380535000822%40sessionmgr11&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#d
b=lxh&AN=85104631>.
Popek, Emily. Understanding the World of User-Generated Conttent. New York: Daily Star,
2011. Print.
"Your Permanent Record." Rosen-Digital Literacy. Rosen Publishing Group, n.d. Web. 11 Oct.
2013. <http://digitalliteracy.rosendigital.com/article/442?search=digital%20footprint>.
Sample Works Cited Entry
Arnol, Stephen E. "Internet user at risk." Internet user at risk 9.1 (2001): 1-54.
EbscoHost Web-Library and Information Science. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&sid=b8abed80-a03a-4e9f-ae018931d8bcee15%40sessionmgr15&hid=11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%
3d#db=f5h&AN=3997428>.
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.
Sample Works Cited Entry
"Asthma and Air Pollution." Natural Resources Defense Council. Natural Resources
Defense Council, 8 June 2005. Web. 3 Oct. 2013.
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.
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
Source
Notes
Feedback
Everything stays linked
Go to the tabletop to see all your notecards
Check the bird’s eye view for out-of-sight notecards
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
Paraphrase or summarize
Paraphrase here
• Explain it to yourself
• In words you understand
• Look back at the quote – got it all?
“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?
You’ll get quotes and attribution right!
Then start to mark it up
Help
Close reading boosts your comprehension
Explain it to yourself
Help
If you have trouble identifying a main idea:
1. Reread the quote to get the “gist.”
2. Is there more than one main idea? If so, just
split your quote into two notecards.
Help
Use “My Ideas” in a flexible way
If your note isn’t
linked to a source,
find it in this list of
all your sources
If you can, add a tag now…
…when you know more it will be easier!
Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop
Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs
to be done and what’s important.
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