Benefits of Noodletools
Project Management
Students:
Teachers:
Students:
- Create an unlimited number of projects
- Share work with a teacher
- Merge, copy and rename projects
- Archive projects to maintain a portfolio of your work
- Collaborate on projects with other researchers
Teachers:
- Monitor each students' progress and send feedback from within NoodleTools
- Projects Shared with Me allows one-click access to shared projects, grouped by assignment
- Archive completed projects in drop box to show as exemplars to current students
Dashboard
- Scan the history, sharing status, and content of a project
- Write a research question and thesis statement
- View information about the assignment drop boxes and teachers with whom the project is shared
- View teacher-selected links for the project (a calendar, an assignment sheet, a pathfinder, blog, wiki, etc.)
- Review the current citation and notecard counts
- Create a to-do list to track and manage tasks, assignments and milestones
- Scroll through a unified view of all feedback, including the teacher's general observations as well as targeted comments about your notes or sources
- Click view comment/notecard in context to quickly navigate to the relevant citation or notecard
Sources
- Accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian formatting
- Comprehensive coverage of the latest editions of the MLA Handbook, APA Publication Manual, and Turabian's A Manual for Writers
- Export as a Web page (HTML) or directly to Word
- Automatic alphabetization of entries
- Custom sort orders (media type, publication date, or primary/secondary source classification)
- Share source list with a teacher
Notecards
- Capture digital information (e.g., quotes, images, diagrams, tables) accurately
- Benefit from scaffolded help to identify and enter source information correctly, create plagiarism-free notes and create a standard outline
- Annotate notes (highlighting, color, etc.)
- Label concepts or facts using tags, and add colors and visual cues
- Search by keyword, tag, or source to view and organize notes in multiple ways
- Reorder and pile notecards with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface
- Mouse-over notecards and piles for a quick summary view of their content
- Create an outline and link notecards from the tabletop to outline subtopics
- Share notecards and outline with a teacher
In-Line Notecards
- View notecards directly below each citation
- Link notecards to sources to avoid accidental plagiarism
- Identify gaps in note-taking and assess the value of sources
List Analysis
- Statistics and graphs provide simple, visual analysis of the composition of a source list
- Assists teachers with evaluation
- Encourages student self-assessment:
- "Have I gathered enough information and met the requirements?"
- "Is this the right balance of print and online sources for my research?"
- "Did I make full use of the resources available to me?"
- "Is currency important because I am reporting on a time-sensitive issue or evolving topic?"
Google Docs
(Could still be used offsite since it is still filtered on campus)
- Click a paper in Google Docs by clicking the Paper button
- One-click access from NoodleTools, once the document is tied to your project
- Share your Google Docs paper with a teacher
- Teachers can comment, ask questions or edit the student's paper using Google Doc's annotation tools
- Access for Google Apps for Education users