Resources

Resources for Choosing a Celebrity and Doing Research on That Celebrity

If you're still looking for a celebrity, try these sites.  Some of them are also great at providing information once you've selected your person. 

• Academy of Achievement 
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• http://www.aeispeakers.com/
• http://www.people.com/people/celebrities/0,,,00.html 
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• http://www.rd.com/interviews-celebrity-actors-musicians-athletes/
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• http://www.notablebiographies.com
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• Incredible People.com
• Biography.com
• http://famouspeople.com/famous_biographies.htm
• You can find lists of famous people from all fifty states by going to http://www.50states.com/bio/
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• Famous People with Disabilities http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
•  Here's one that lists celebrities by their birthdays and provides information on each one: http://www.findingdulcinea.com/topics.html?topic=/categories/people

 

More Resources for Doing Research on That Celebrity

Once you have selected your celebrity, you will need to begin finding websites. Here are a few resources you might use as you look for good sites. 

• Check for your celebrity on especially useful databases found through our state online library at   http://pioneer.uen.org
  Login Name: pioneer
  Password: search
• Once you are in Pioneer, go to Sirs Discoverer (a database especially for students), and search for your celebrity.

• Wikipedia   
•     Note that Wikipedia is just a starting point.  Because it can be edited by almost anyone, you need to be especially careful about content.
• Internet Movie DataBase
• People: Celebrity Central
• Access Hollywood
• Celebrity Wonder
• Google
  
  World Book Web
  http://worldbookonline.com

Search Engines and Databases

• Try iSeek.com   If you can't access it otherwise, you can get to it through myaccess.com, using your student login from our school. 
• A search engine for students:  http://www.sweetsearch.com/ 
• This has a different format.  You see several results in the form of pages and can move among them using arrows. http://www.redz.com/
• This one is even more unusual: http://search-cube.com/
• You can collect resources at  http://middlespot.com/search.php 
•  Put together search terms with this: http://www.boolify.org/
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> Please note that Google is not a website. It is a search engine to find websites. You can not use Google (or other search engines or databases) as a source for your projects.

Because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, make sure you carefully check any facts you find there.  Of course, your other sources may also be inaccurate.  That is one of the reasons we use several sources. 

Source Requirements: 

An individual student will need to find at least three sources.

Two students working together will use five or more sources.  

For each source, you will fill out a website evaluation.  
Make sure you have the complete URL for each source/site.  The easiest way to save URLs is to create a document (with Word) on your thumb drive, copy the URLs and save them to that document.   You could also email them to yourself.  

You will cite your sources (provide information about the sources) in your presentation. 
Go to the tab on this blog titled bibme for directions.  

Here are some sample citations.  I made these by entering the URLs for our own reading class blogs, and the URL for a site that gives information about a celebrity I'd like to learn more of. 

Dorsey, Claudia E. Caveman Reading. 09 Oct. 2010. Web. 09 Oct. 2010. <http://cavereading.blogspot.com/>.

Dorsey, Claudia E. A.F. Celebrity WebQuest. 09 Oct. 2010. Web. 09 Oct. 2010. <http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/>.

And here's one for a site with information about Elie Wiesel, who wrote the book Night about his experiences as a young Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp:

Price, Angel. "Elie Wiesel Bio." American Studies @ The University of Virginia. University of Virginia, 3 Oct. 1997. Web. 09 Oct. 2010. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/holo/eliebio.htm>.

Citations are easy to put together when you use easybib!

  Some popular search engines are:

     - Yahoo!
     www.yahoo.com

     - Dogpile
     www.dogpile.com

     It searches 14 other search engines as well.

     - Infoseek
     www.infoseek.com

     - Alta Vista
     altavista.com

     It also offers a selection of results in another language--German, French, and so on.

     Some search engines specially for children are:

     - Yahooligans
     www.yahooligans.com

     - Kids Nook
     www.kidsnook.com

     - Ask Jeeves for Kids
     www.ajkids.com

     - Surf The Net for Kids
     www.surfnetkids.com

grading for evaluations and presentationS2.doc

Originally created by Jim Romrell