Great Canadians

Grade 4 you will be choosing a Famous Canadian. Think of "Why or What" makes them famous.
Here are some links that you might want to visit for research:

Famous Canadians:

http://www.canadians.ca/

http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/greatcanadians/

Send me a comment when you have chosen your person.  Make sure to include what makes them great.
Include your name on your comment.

Plagiarism

Your lesson for today is on plagiarism and cheating. There is a video that you will watch and post comments to. The video is found in your junior folder, cross curriculum, MonD Player. In key word, type in 'Cheating". Click on the video called "Caught Cheating with Charles Gibson". You will watch the section on plagiarism and academic honesty. Then anwer and comment to the following. I will not post comments until the class is finished. If you finish early, you may have "free time" on Destiny.




Have fun and be HONEST!!!


Mrs. Brennan

Answer the following in a comment:

1. What is plagiarism?


2. Is it OK to use others work in your research if you give them credit?

3. Do you think it is OK to cheat?


You will be doing a some research on a famous Canadian of your choice.  When you have responded to the above questions and have some time left, visit the following links below to get an idea of a famous Canadian.

http://www.canadians.ca/


http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/greatcanadians/
 

About Comments on Posting

Just a few tips when commenting on posts.  Make sure your name is on your comment somewhere so you can get credit for posting something.  
The last post asked you to discuss a Canadian athlete.  About half of the class failed to tell me the sport that they are competing in.  
We will try it again in two weeks.
See you soon!!!!

Omypians

Research the following:



name of a Canadian Olympic athlete

sport

age

residence (Province that they live in)

how long competing



Send me a post with your information.


Use the following links: http://www.vancouver2010.com/


http://www.ctvolympics.ca/

 Mrs. Brennan

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2010!!

We will be using the blogs again to do our lessons in the library.  I will be teaching you how to use the program Audacity to make podcasts.  Podcasts are digital audiofiles.  You will be posting your answers/research as a podcast for the whole class to listen to.  
After my brief lesson on podcasts... you will visit the Olympic site and send me a post telling me where the torch is today and how many days left until the Olympics begins in Vancouver.

Happy Researching.
Mrs. Brennan