NoodleBib - A Teaching Tool

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NoodleBib - A Teaching Tool

• Your name/title/contact info

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What is NoodleTools?

• NoodleTools is a platform for student research
• Students get support along the entire research
  process
• The components stay organized, high-quality work
  is encouraged
• They get help and personal answers at the point
  of need
• Self-assessment and responsibility are promoted
• NoodleTools is a platform for teaching
• Teachers view all student work (notes, outline,
  bibliography, paper)
• All instructors can monitor and assess student
  progress
• Feedback (in context or general comments) can be
  given at various stages
• Evidence of achievement can be collaboratively
  assessed

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Each student has a control panel
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Goals are clear
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Assignments, calendar, and pathfinders are easy
to find
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All work is visible
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Planning skills are encouraged
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A unified view of all feedback enables systematic
revision
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Feedback appears in-context on a note or citation
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List view
Sources are always linked to notes
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Choosing a source
Students think about the kind of source they are
going to cite - key preparation for their
critical annotation later
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Copy-and-paste to avoid spelling errors
Fill in the form
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Get help on each field
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More help pops up
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Dynamic help
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The software can catch common errors
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but the student must decide which changes to make
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Correctly formatted, correctly alphabetizedwith
the student doing the thinking!
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Student evaluates a source listbased on an
information need
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Noodlebib scaffolds thinking

• Software automates punctuation
• Student dissects the source field-by-field
• Software highlights possible errors
• Student make decisions about corrections
• Software displays data about sources
• Student evaluates quantity, variety and currency

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A teaching tool

• NoodleTools stands out because instead of
  simply presenting an ambiguous form that a user
  may not correctly complete, it attempts to teach
  at almost every step. If a user chooses to cite a
  journal article, the software will provide a
  definition of a journal. This not only checks the
  user's choice, but reminds the user of the
  essence of the publication type selectedand
  continues to engage the user by asking if the
  journal was online or in print, from a Web site,
  or a database and will even coach the students on
  those "picky details" such as capitalization. The
  user not only gets an accurate citation, but has
  quite possibly learned something about sources
  and documentation. N. Tomaiuolo, Citations
  and Aberrations. Searcher Magazine, July/Aug.
  2007
• CHOICE Magazine, June 2006 - Rating "Highly
  recommended"

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Three-step notetaking process

• The student captures the authors words/images
• Acts as a check on plagiarism
• Links quotes and sources
• Say good-by to I cant remember where I got
  that or I need that quote about
• Uses colors and highlighting to mark up the
  authors words
• By interacting with notes, a student understands
  the content

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Cut-and-paste
Authors image
Authors words
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and annotate the text
Highlight main ideas
Green for statistics
Red for problems
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Reading comprehensionanalysis and synthesis

• Next the student paraphrases the authors words
• Easy for the student (and you) to compare to the
  marked-up quote
• Adds tags to identify and analyze information
• Word tags enable searching and grouping by
  important terms, names and key ideas
• Color tags encourage student-defined sorting
  (e.g. redproblems, greensolutions)
• Visual icons remind the student to
  follow-up(e.g., incomplete, important, need
  help)
• And you can identify where they need help!

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Explain it to yourself
Using words that you understand
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Its easier to add tags when you know more.
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Add the main idea last
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The software prompts for original thinking

• My Ideas is the students thinking space
• Encourages analysis and reflection
• How does this fit with what you know?
• Promotes questioning, reflection and meta
  thinking
• What questions do you have?
• What dont you understand?
• Why is this different than my other sources?
• Supports planning
• Whats next instead of all done
• Develops ideas for the to do list

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What do you think?
I wonder?
Reminder to add this to the To do list on the
Dashboard
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Drag and sort notes
Students use the tabletop to organize notes
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Make piles
Students group ideas that belong together
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Add reminders, colors and tags
By labeling notes with visual cues, students can
search, reorder or revise them later
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Organize and outline

• Students can process notes in multiple ways
• Order and reorder notes into piles
• Experiment with tentative subtopics
• Attach multiple tags to a notecard
• Label important details, themes, concepts
• Search notes - by one tag, by combinations
• Investigate new ways to order information
• Encourages flexible thinking
• Return to incompletes

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Students can build an outline on-the-fly
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or create it before taking notes
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With notes and piles in an outline, a students
work is organized for a paper (word processor,
Google Docs) or project
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NoodleBib is an online portfolio of student
learning over time
and work is never lost!
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Organized view of classes
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How student work is shared
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Your one-click access to student projects,
grouped by assignment
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with a quick overview of student activity
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NoodleBib supports your teaching

• Monitor all research components (notes, sources,
  outline, writing)
• Select instructional feedback from a comment
  bank, then tailor it to the students needs
• Observe how the student applies feedback to work,
  then provide further support, if needed
• Respond to notes tagged Need help
• Capture evidence to support evaluation
• Collaboratively assess student work

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A window on students thinking

• You can see if the student has
• selected quality, relevant sources
• included an appropriate range of sources
• identified key points in the authors quote
• grasped the authors meaning
• taken relevant notes
• used your feedback to improve
• exhibited flexible thinking using alternative
  ways to organize information
• asked thoughtful questions

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Why NoodleBib?

• NoodleBib promotes an ethical academic climate
• Teach (rather than police) ethical behavior
• Safeguard against accidental plagiarism
• Builds a consistent attribution process
  throughout the grades
• Allows departments to teach the style used in
  their discipline
• Continuous support encourages student buy-in

I have used it with 5th-8th graders and I find
that students are actually willing to consult
more than the minimum number of sources because
they know they will have help creating the proper
citations. This encourages curiosity and
intellectual engagement. Our English, History and
Science teachers love NoodleBib and they are
using it for their own research. - Constance
Vidor, Middle School Library Media Specialist
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You can focus on whats important!

• Evaluate the students reading comprehension by
  comparing the paraphrase to the original source
  quote
• Assess the students understanding of information
  by examining the tags and main idea chosen for a
  notecard
• Assess the relevance and quality of resources
  using NoodleBibs analysis software
• Examine the students ability to critically
  evaluate a source by reading the annotation
• Gauge the students engagement, curiosity and
  original thinking by reading My Ideas comments

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An extra instructor

• Students can get help at home
• To figure out tricky MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian
  citations
• To correctly identify sources (e.g., journal v.
  magazine, Web v. subscription database)
• Expert, personal answers in 24 hrs

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Your students (or you) can tap into expert help
beyond the handbook examples
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NoodleBib - A Teaching Tool

• Questions?

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