(Copy and paste this ISG into your word processing file to make handouts for students) 
@Star schools curriculum outline of Authorware Program developed by Janet Wilcox, San Juan High School, 1995/1996.  Revised Summer 2000 

Student name_________________________ (alias SJ007) 
 

     Record the date you complete each of the following computer sections 
 You will be tested on this information.  Make sure you learn it and can do it. 

I.  Introduction to research                                                                  Notes 
______A.  Class structure 
______B.   Detective/Research skills needed 
______C.   Critical thinking skills used in research 
  1.  Bloom's taxonomy 
  2.  Brief description of possible projects 

II. Prewriting activities: 
 A.  Brainstorming possible topics 
______ 1.  History Fair 
______ 2.  Blue Mountain Shadows 
______ 3. Other publications 

 B.  Narrowing down a topic 
______ 1.  Funneling your topic 
______ 2.  Selecting your topic 

III.  Phase 3--Researching, finding sources 
 A.  Research strategies 
  1.  Making a preliminary plan 
______  a.  Preliminary outline
______  b.  Idea tree 
______  c.  Brainstorm associations 
    1  examples 
    2  quiz to check understanding 
______ 2.  Using Boolean logic 
   a.   examples of using logic 
   b.   quiz to check understand 
 B.  Using general resources 
______  1.  Abridged dictionary 
______  2.  Unabridged dictionary 
______  3.  Encyclopedias 
______  4.  Almanac 
______  5.  Atlas 
______  6.  Quiz over section 
 C.  Additional sources to use 
______ 1.  Specialized encyclopedias 
______ 2.  Thesaurus 
______ 3.  Biographical reference books 
______ 4.  Books of quotations 
______ 5.  Facts on file 
______ 6.  Quiz to check understanding 

 D.  Dewey decimal system 
______ 1.  Memory framework 
______ 2.  Attach Dewey system 
______ 3.  Quiz to check understanding 

 E.  Card Catalog 
          ______    1.  Subject cards 
          ______    2.  Topic cards 
          ______    3.  Author cards 
          ______    4.  Quiz on understanding 
          ______    5.  Cross referencing 
          ______    6.  Quiz on cross referencing 

______F.  Review quiz on writing bibliography cards 
______ 1.  Placement of author 
______ 2.  Placement of title, etc. 
______ 3.  Nine questions to make sure all items are understood. 

 G.  Special collections 
______ 1.  San Juan Collection 
______ 2.  Native American collection 
______ 3.  Readers Guide to Periodical Literature 
______ 4.  Vertical file 

________H.  Knowing how to write note cards and bibliography cards 

________ I.  Technology helps available 
   1.  Winnebago and online catalogs 
   2.  Internet 
   3.  E-mail 
   4.  Sirs 
   5.  CD ROMS 
Part III B Additional resources to investigate 
  J.  Community resources to use in research 
________ 1.  Schools 
     a.  Public schools 
     b.  Colleges 
________  2.  Business 
________  3.  Newspapers 
              a.  Bound volumes 
              b.  Microfilm 
________         4.  Community libraries 
                 Personal libraries 
________  5.  Museums 
   a.  Edge of the Cedars 
   b.  Dinosaur museum 
   c.  Salt Lake museums 
   d.  Monticello museum 
_________ 6.  Government resources 
   a.  Town records 
   b.  County records 
   c.  Government agencies 

          K.  Human resources, oral interviews 
_______ 1.  Formal recorded oral interviews 
_______ 2.  Phone interviews 
_______ 3.  Letters 
_______ 4.  TV/radio interviews 

IV. Phase 4--Using information 
 A.  Evaluating information 
_________ 1.  Criteria for evaluating material 
_________ 2.  Fact vs. opinion 
_________ 3.  Propaganda & bias 
_____  B.  Copyright and plagiarism 
______C.  Note taking 
______D.  Primary vs. secondary sources 

V.  Phase 5 Synthesizing and sharing information 
______A.  Revising preliminary plan 
______B.  Writing and revising drafts 
______C.  Crediting sources 
  MLA/ Chicago/Turabian 
 D.  Ways to show information 
_________ 1.  Historical paper 
_________ 2.  Science paper 
_________ 3.  Project board 
_________ 4.  Media presentations 
   a.  Slide show 
   b.  Video show 
   c.  Computer based presentation 
__________ 5.  Performance 
VI.  Evaluation 
_______ A.  Weekly self evaluations 
_______ B.  Project criteria evaluation 
_______ C.  Authentic assessment and peer evaluation

(List the number of each question &  the thinking skill that best matches) 
Determine which of the six critical thinking skills you are using from Bloom’s Taxonomy when you . . . 

1.  After looking at the description of 20 sources listed in the Card Catalog of the LMC, you weigh the information given and select the ones which seem to fit your topic best. 

2.  You use the dictionary to look up words from your reading that you don’t understand. 

3.  You create a slide show using the information from your note cards 

4.  You revise your first draft, eliminating weak sections, and add new information to the new version.  You constantly ask yourself, what will make this better? 

5. You summarize information you have read from a chapter onto  note card. 

6.  After learning how to do an interview,  you prepare questions and conduct an interview. 

7.  After finding contradictory statements related to the same information, you review the information and determine which author is most credible. 

8.  You rate yourself weekly on the job you have been doing as a researcher, and determine what you need to do to improve, and what things you have been successful in doing. 

9.  Based upon what information you have, you write and organize a preliminary outline, determining the main points and subdivisions you plan to develop. 

10.  You review all the possible places to find information in the I-Search program Parts 3A and 3B, and then go and look for information in those sources. 

11.  You create a map showing all the places your person, or idea migrated to. 

12.  You compare your topic to a similar place, person, or idea that existed in history. 

13.  You tell someone else what you have learned through your research. 
 

Part 4 
 
 

Evaluation information
(criteria, fact vs. opinion, propaganda & bias 
Copyright and plagiarism) 
Includes interactive quiz. 
Note taking
(quotes, summary, paraphrase, bullets) 
Citation of sources. Includes interactive quiz.

1.  How can a weekly evaluation be helpful to you and to the teacher? 
 

2.  What kind of things should you write in the weekly evaluation journal? (5 pts) 
 

3.  List Bloom’s Taxonomy: (Six levels of Critical thinking) and give at least one example of what kind of activities you will be doing on each level during the research unit. (12 pts) 

4.  What are the four types of research projects you can do? (4 pts) 

5.  List 4 detective skills you will need to have to be a good researcher and evaluate yourself as to how well you qualify for each skill.  (8 pts)

1.   What is the History Fair Theme this year? (4 pts) 
 

2.  What is authentic evaluation and give an example?  (2 pts) 
 

3.  What publications might you have your research published in? (2 pts) 

4. What does it mean to “funnel your topic? (2 pts) Why is this important? 
 

5.  Funnel (narrow down) the following topic at least two times or more: Archaeology in Utah.  (3 pts) 
 

Origin of I-search Authorware Program

      After 10 years of teaching the same basic research unit to 11th grade students, I felt like a robot having to repeat the same information year after year.  When our faculty was introduced to the Authorware Program in 1993, I saw immediately that it would be a wonderful tool to take the History Fair Research unit to a new level of instruction and performance.  Unfortunately, it is an extremely time consuming program to master, with a high learning curve. (I'm not sure I even made it around the complete curve!) 
      A couple of years later, our community college, CEU/San Juan Campus, awarded STAR schools grants for competitive proposals which would use technology for instruction.  I wrote a proposal which was funded and I spent the summer of 1995 learning the program and plugging in existing content material I had developed.  Val Hoggard and Kathy Hurst were my mentors and helped me through the first initial stages of frustration. 
      It was probably the most creative and stimulating summer I've ever spent.   I loved every minute of it and by the next fall, I was able to test a Beta version with my 11th grade English students.  They helped find dozens (hundreds!) of errors, and problems, and I spent the following summer fine-tuning it and adding additional content.  My students very much enjoyed the computerized method of learning material, and not having to listen to lectures in order to progress through the unit. 
Another bonus, is that students who missed class could easily make up the work by logging in on their own time.  The research unit, became my most productive and successful unit, due in part to this program.
       Because it was designed with San Juan High School in mind, it is customized to that audience and locations in San Juan County.  But all content can easily be adapted to other locations.  Janet Keeler Wilcox
 SJHS English and journalism teacher 1983-1999 
Masters Program Educational Technology 1999-2001, USU 

1.  What is verbatim split page strategy and 
how do you do it?  (4 pts.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2.  When would you use it? 
 
 

3.  When do you add annotations to your 
bibliography (source cards) ? 
 

4.  What should be included in the annotation? 
(3 pts) 
 
 
 
 

5.  List 5 things you should remember to do 
when conducting an interview: 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6.  List 3 things you shouldn’t do: 
 
 
 
 

8.  Why might you want to include some closed questions? 
 
 
 
 
 

9.  Name three county newspapers: 
 
 
 
 

10: Name three out-of-county newspapers that may have information you can use: 
 
 
 

11.  Name 5 state, county, or government agencies, that may have information you can use in research and tell what each is 
responsible for 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

When finished, begin part 4 in the I-search program.  Complete it this week.  Remember: 40 note card check, and interview questions due this week.