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6CB Exhibition Research Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known ~ Dr. Carl Sagan


 This will be your very own space to collect all the important research you will come across as your group builds a deeper understanding of your chosen action. Included in this wiki is an area where you can participate in online group discussions about the information you are building or questions that may arise throughout the process. 


 Let's begin with a short video to introduce wikis as way to organize all the information your group will be gathering. Take a few moments to watch [|Wikis in Plain English].



Action Group Wiki Page Expectations:
One of your roles as a student in this Exhibition is to carry out an open-ended inquiry into a real-life issue or problem by gathering the necessary material to gain a deeper understanding into it and in the process, demonstrate academic honesty when referring to your sources of information.

This wiki has been developed to assist you with this expectation.

You will see that each Action Group has its own page in this wiki to collect, post and edit all important and relevant research collected.

Listed below are the expectations for research and discussion posts. Please read them carefully and refer to them as often as needed.

** Expectations: **
1. It is important to use the discussion board feature to discuss the information posted critically to collaboratively come to a more thorough understanding of the group action. To accomplish this, students are reminded to follow the same expectations set out for creating and participating in the class Ning discussion board when using the wiki discussion board. Eg: avoid repetition, can agree with a post but offer more reflection when doing so etc. (Refer to Assessment Rubric page for more reminders)

2. Students are required to make three informative research posts, including sources, as well as two reflective responses to discussions per week. They can be done at school or at home.

RSS Feeds
 You can access many online news sources to get up to the minute information using the RSS feeds from a variety of child friendly publications. These publications offer articles on humanitarian, conservation and environmental issues. Taking time each day to check these feeds may provide you with current subject specific research.

These feeds are a starting point. You are encouraged to seek out others that suit your needs. Look for the rss feed symbol above on selected websites. Click on the symbol to discover your own feed.


 * Mark...I tried everything I could to embed several feeds into this wiki but to no avail as you can see. I have asked some IT friends to help and they had trouble. I haven't given up though but ran out of time. I'll be in touch for some advice soon. thanks.**


 * rss url="feed://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/cbbc_news/homepage/rss.xml" link="true" number="6"rss url="feed://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/earth_climate/environmental_issues.xml" link="true" number="6" rss url="feed://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/earth_climate/environmental_issues.xml" link="true" number="10"rss url="feed://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/teacher.xml" link="true" number="6"**

rss url="http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/cbbc_news/homepage/rss.xml" link="true" number="10"

**Tag Cloud**

 * When you are conducting research through websites, it is possible to give the website a tag (ie: childsoldiers) and it will bookmark that site for possible future use.

Delicious is an online bookmarking service with the ability to store your web bookmarks as well as allow you to share and discover new ones. Before you begin any online research, I would like you to login to the wiki Delicious account. If you do this every time you conduct online research, all of the useful websites you find can be saved to be used by you, your group and the rest of the class.

Simply visit the Delicious website at: **http://delicious.com/ password: makeadifference1**
 * Enter:** username: year6exhibition

Now you can start adding to the tag cloud below as you "tag" important and informative websites you want to use for your research.

You can also click on a tag in the cloud and Delicious will bring you to all the saved websites in that category.

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Now, it's time to get started!