Noodle tools for_students combined

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Carondelet Library

What is NoodleTools?

Create, organize and store• Create a bibliography

• Take notes online

• Organize your notes

• Create an outline

• Add notecards under headings

• Create [essay, speech, product…]

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• Click the "Create a Personal ID“ button to register as a new user

• At the “New User Registration” screen, enter carondelet and our database password

• Create and remember your personal ID and password

• When you use NoodleTools after that, login only with your personal ID and password

Start by choosing MLA Advancedand then Name your project

Your dashboard helps you track and organize your work

Use feedback from your instructor to improve your work

Teacher’s comment is next to your citation

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Making the Works Cited List

Bibliography screen

Choose the best matchfrom the drop-down menu

What’s your source?

Copy-and-paste to avoid spelling errors

Fill in the form

Get help on each field

Help pops up!

Catch common errors…

…and make changes

Correctly formatted,correctly alphabetized

Click here to see how Parenthetical Reference should be formatted in your paper

Share your list with your teacher to get comments andimprove your work

Format, export, print… and you’re done!

Analyze your list

Keep a project portfolio

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Taking notes using Notecards

You can create notecards from the bibliography screen or from the dashboard

Three-part notes

1. Cut-and-paste Capture author’s words, images

– Get quotes and attribution right

– Mark-up the quote to understand the author’s idea

2. Paraphrase or summarize Explain it to yourself

– Tag concepts and facts

– Add reminders and tasks

3. My ideas Prompts for original thinking

– Analyze how it fits your research

– Ask questions, evaluate ideas

– List “to do” plan

1. Cut-and-paste first

Author’s image

Author’s words

Explain it to yourself*

*Using words that you understand

2.Paraphrase or summarize

What do you think?

I wonder…?“To do” next

3. My ideas

Add the main idea last

Source

Notes

Your notes and sources stay linked

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Notecard Table

Use your tabletop to organize notes

Your notes are

waiting here

Organizing information

Create subtopics and outline• What notes have similar titles or topics?

– Pile them together– Add them to your outline

Play with the order, be curious!• What if I make new combinations of notes?

– Search by one or more tags to find common ideas among notes

• What other ways can I order my outline?• Do new grouping suggest new ways to analyze

what I know? New ideas? New questions?

Sort notes however you like!

Drag notes

Build your outline on-the-fly…

Easy to add more sources if you need to!

NoodleBibStart your source list!

Questions?

Ask Mrs. Tracy or Ms. Koski