Introduction to Noodletools Creating a research project using Noodletools

Learning Target Practice opening a project in Noodletools by setting up a Noodletool account to create a project, citation, and works cited page.

First… Some of you are familiar with the website, others are not. It is important we go through this together as sometimes things have changed within the program, sometimes your teacher has different expectations. Please do not rush ahead and complete things as you will find yourself trying to backtrack and redo information.

Noodletools.com This is an online research tool that helps teach the research process and assists with organizing and tracking progress on research projects. Note: It is online, so you will need to be connected to wi-fi when using it.

What can you use it for? Note-taking Outlining (Yay!) Creating citations Document archiving/annotation Collaborative research Sharing your writing

Register (If you already have an account, log in.) Create a personal ID Choose an account linked to a school/library Register Personal ID: Your mypanthers username Password: Your mypanthers password It will ask you for four last digits of your telephone number, I do recommend you do this as many students forget how to log in and there is NO WAY for me or anyone else at this school to get your account back up if you forget your information. The first time you do this, you must do it from school in order to have it connect to the school. Select Westwood Middle School from the list when prompted.

My Projects In this section, you will see projects that you are working on that you create.

Projects shared with me These are projects you may be collaborating with other students. You will not see anything in there unless you have a joint project.

Create a new project

Select MLA and JUNIOR

Type in “Theme Essay” for description

Dashboard This is where your project will be saved. You will open to the dashboard whenever you work on it.

Fill in the question and your thesis statement

Sharing your project You will need to find our class and add it to the assignment drop box. H1 Honors Language Arts 8 Add your first name and last initial. Check Share my Google Docs paper. It will prompt you to log into your mypanthers account. (through gmail) Go ahead and do this.

Works Cited For this essay, we just want a Works Cited page. Go to your dashboard and find components. Click Works Cited

Create a citation

Select citation type We want a citation of our book The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Select book. It will bring you to a section you can look over to learn more information. You may take some time to look over that now. Select continue when you are ready to move on.

Create the citation – you will need your book!

Before you start… You need to find out as much information as possible. Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization MATTER! This is a tool, but it will NOT fix what you enter.

Start with contributors Select author. Enter the author’s name. This novella includes a translator. Select add a contributor and add the translator. Continue to fill in the information for our book. Notice as you add the title of the book that it gives you tips on capitalization, etc. Pay attention to these tips!

Annotation Select the “What is annotation?” For this assignment, read the descriptive annotation and provide the information in the annotation box. For your research project, you will need to include critical annotations.

Descriptive Annotation includes:

Submit Check that you have all necessary fields filled out and that you have carefully proofread for capitalization and spelling errors.

Last, share. You can do this two ways. First, you can simply yourself the document and add it to your Google Drive document. Second, you can save as a pdf to add to your document. It will come up as a Works Cited page and you will be able to directly add it to your essay.

To submit, please share as a Googledoc. Go into your Google Drive and create a new document. Share with me by adding me as able to edit. Title the document: H1 Lastname Firstname Theme Essay

Submitting your essay to me. At the top of your page in the upper left hand corner, write the following: Your first and last name Theme Essay Mrs. Running February 18, 2014

Under your heading… Add your outline. Starting with the heading and your thesis.

Start a new page. Even if your outline only went on to the first few lines, start a new page. At the top make sure to type your heading again. Then your essay.

Last…Works Cited page Add your works cited page created from Noodletools.

Reminders… The entire paper: outline, essay, works cited should be double-spaced and in black Times New Roman 12 point font. This is how an formal academic paper will be formatted.