create a citation race
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Help students develop the habit of making properly formatted citations for images from the web.TRANSCRIPT
Make-a-citation raceHonoria Starbuck Ph.D. for classes at the Art Institute of Austin
1. Drivers ask class for an idea for an image to find.2. Search and find image3. Evaluate source as reliable
such as a museum, artist blog , or artist collection; not a poster store4. Find the biggest and best version5. Copy image to use in your textbook6. Copy the URL where you find the image7. Paste URL into easybib.com8. Click Cite This9. Assess if the easybib.com information is complete. Compare
information on the image page to the empty textboxes on Easybib.com10. Fill in all the empty text boxes for which there is information on the
image page.11. When you have as complete a form as possible click Create Citation12. Copy the MLA formatted citation into your sources list at the end of
your chapter under the title Works Cited.
Works Cited
Van Gogh, Vincent. The Starry Night. 1889. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. MOMA the Collection. Museum of Modern Art, 2010. Web. 7 Apr. 2012. <http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79802>.
Tip:If you register for easybib.com it will keep track of all your citations and you may find it very convenient to use a resource for more than one class assignment.
• Teams of 2 students each to drive the computer• Timer
Test Run: Van Gogh’s starry night
• Image search for “Starry Night”• Search for Van Gogh Starry Night• More reliable search include the word “museum” • Most reliable search use our AIA databases• Try Google Art Project then locate source click DETAILS• Found reliable source: The Museum of Modern Art
You may use blogs, deviantart, museums, Google Art Project, our library databases, Youtube, etc.
The Museum of Modern Art owns the painting and has a lot of information about this painting and other Van Gogh paintings within a few clicks.
Google Art Project
Museum of Modern Art
Links To
Find the Image
Use this URL to paste into easybib.com
Plug information from Museum of Modern Art website into Easybib.com and click “Create Citation”
Create Citation
Copy Citation
2010
Paste citation in alphabetical order under the title “Works Cited” in your textbook.
Cite the Image