Rock and Roll HIstory

I am going to put some clips here for you to watch.  We have talked about Ed Sullivan and here is a clip about him.  When I was your age everyone watched the Ed Sullivan show every Sunday evening.  Here is a clip of him introducing some of the rock and roll stars who are referred to in our musical.  And here is Paul McCartney of the Beatles watching himself in his first appearance on the show!  I remember that night so well.  My mom couldn't stop laughing!  And here is Elvis singing Blue Suede Shoes.  And especially for Balkaran here are The Supremes singing Stop in the Name of Love.  And maybe you feel like a little California Dreaming with The Beach Boys.  Here they are with comics Jack Benny and Bob Hope singing California Girls.  And here is a bit of Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta.  I am updating this post with a clip of Little Richard singing Tutti Frutti.  And here is a clip of Elvis doing Tutti Frutti!  Not sure how Ringo Starr, the Beetles drummer, got in the video clip!

Joan Bauer

Here is a picture of Joan Bauer at the conference that I attended in San Antonio.   I videoed an interview with her that somehow didn't work but she was really touched by how much you like her book, Almost Home, and was impressed that you raised $700 in our homeless project inspired partly by her book!  She says Shush is based on her own dog by the way and is looking forward to hearing from you and seeing your work!



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San Antonio

Just thought I would send a few pictures from San Antonio! I am very excited because I am going to,hear Rick Riordan speak tomorrow! maybe I will be able to get an autographed book!


This the River Walk that goes all around town!



- There are gorgeous flowers



A store I visited in a neat area



San Antonio was once part of Mexico and the Spanish were the early settlers and you can see this in the architectural style


it's fiesta time and this one of the many mariachi bands you may hear!

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Division Four famous Canadians research

Today we are lending our blog to Ms. Jerom's Division Four who are doing research on famous Canadians.
First of all when you are doing research a great place to go is the Trudeau Library webcat
When you are doing research using the data bases here are the passwords that you need

The login for the databases is: 39td

The password is: library

A great source in the library is a real encyclopedia, The Canadian Encyclopedia, and you can also get this online  Always check if there are books in the library on your famous Canadian as well.  Here are some websites I found that may be helpful.
This website is very helpful and has good advice for doing your research.
This is a helpful link designed for kids, Famous Canadians.
Here is another link that has lots of information, just hit more to find more famous Canadians.
In some cases there may be websites dedicated to your famous Canadian or they may have their own websites, try googling to find out.
Once you have your information, you need to know how to properly cite your references.  It is best to write or type the website and then take your notes so you know where those notes came from!  Then you don't have to go looking after!

  Here is a good guide to doing a bibliography.  

Now how to you present what you have learned?  Here is a guide to a multimedia project

Multimedia Presentation Ideas

• Written information
• Music
• Skits
• Collages
• Cartoons
• Models
• Overheads, slides
• Videos
• Poetry
• Art
• Short stories/Journals
• Computer graphics or web pages

(see Links page on library resources page for web links)

-web cartoons, web poster, blogs…

• Maps
• Graphs
• Tables of statistics

Multimedia means using more than one form of presentation.  For example, in an oral report, you might also show pictures to help your audience understand your main points.

Think about the best way to present each type of information.    Make sure what you show is big enough for people to see!  

Write out all the steps in your presentation. For example, if you are going to show a picture, decide whether you will show the picture first and then talk about it or first talk about the picture and then show it.

Practice, practice, practice!

One of the most fun way to present your information is with a prezi .  Here is the link to make a prezi!   You need an e-mail to register for prezi.
If you don't have an e-mail you may want to use power point, that is part of WORD on your computer instead.  You can make an online poster with glogster.  Another fun program is bitstrips. You could do an interview with your famous Canadian for instance.  For some other great ideas go to Ms. Wong at Laurier School.

There are also ways to present using the ipad that we will look at as well.  Can you guess who the famous Canadian artist was who did the painting?

Reel to Real Festival

I am having problems with the moodle website today so I am just going to give you some links to the Reel to Real festival here.  This is the general link.  We will be attending Sounds like Music and here are the films we will be seeing.  We will also be doing a workshop on digital film making led by a professional film maker.  It should be a very fun day as we are able to visit the Roundhouse Community Centre and explore a bit of the area around Yaletown.

Great time at the festival yesterday!  What was your favorite movie?  I am just going to add a few pictures!

Here is Flick teaching a few techniques!

Can Brandon really make Ellie disappear?














The film crews are planning their shots

Brandon B. alone and abandoned!














At the end of the day here is Division One and Ms. Jambor.  We neeeded a little exercise so we left Division Two at the Roundhouse.