NoodleBib Helps you use your

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NoodleBib Helps you use your noodle!

• Taking notesMCHS LibrariesAug 2009

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What is NoodleBib?

• Create, store, organize
• Create a bibliography
• Take notes online
• Organize your notes
• Develop your own ideas
• Think about whats important
• Create essays

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Citations notes

• Work youll be proud of!
• Create an accurate, relevant bibliography
• Correct style, punctuation, formatting
• Prompts you to check for quality, balance
• Take good notes, keep them organized
• Sources stay linked to notes
• Easy to quote and reference
• Summarize, evaluate, question
• Organize ideas thoughtfully before writing

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List view
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Source
Notes
Your notes and sources stay linked
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Three-part notes

• Cut-and-paste Capture authors words, images
• Get quotes and attribution right
• Mark-up the quote to understand the authors idea
• Paraphrase or summarize Explain it to yourself
• Tag concepts and facts
• Add reminders and tasks
• My ideas Prompts for original thinking
• Analyze how it fits your research
• Ask questions, evaluate ideas
• List to do plan

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Cut-and-paste first
Authors image
Authors words
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Youll get quotes and attribution right!
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Reread and color-code information
Highlight main ideas
Green for statistics
Red for problems
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Annotating helps you understand
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Explain it to yourself
Using words that you understand
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What do you think?
I wonder?
To do next
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Add the main idea last
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Add tags nowor later
Its easier to add tags when you know more.
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You can always go back to the source
Sometimes rereading clears up questions
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Use your tabletop to organize notes
Your notes are waiting here
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Drag notes
Sort notes however you like!
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Make piles
Group notes that you feel belong together
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Add reminders, colors and tags
Label your notes with visual cues
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Build your outline on-the-fly
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or build it before you take notes
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Drag notes and piles into your outline
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Get help along the way

• Get feedback, make changes
• Print out bibliography and notes
• E-mail bibliography and notes
• Fill in class name to share your list with your
  teacher and get tips and comments

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Enough information?

• When you think your done, overview
• Can I add more tags now that I know more?
• Label details, themes, concepts
• Other ways to order my ideas?
• Reorder by searching on 2-3 tags at once
• Any loose ends?
• Are there types of sources I missed?
• Use button to see the type and range of
  sources you used

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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?

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Dont forget to follow your ideas!
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Easy to add more sources if you need to!
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What students say

• I love your site! Thank you so much. My senior
  paper would be taking me about 10 times as long!
• You guys are amazing!! I shared the site with
  my whole English class. Your bibliography program
  is incredible! It made making my bibliography
  faster, easier, and even fun!
• I overheard a young man whining to another
  student about a research assignment. The second
  student said, Oh get over it, just use
  NoodleTools. (reported by librarian)

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Use your noodle!

• Stay organized, feel successful
• Access your work from home and school
• Safeguard against accidental plagiarism
• Spend your time thinking and creating (not on
  commas)
• Get curious, feel creativehave fun!

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Noodle timestart thinking!

• Questions?