1. All Aboard for Research Rachel Shankles

3. Rachel Shankles shankles@cablelynx.com LIBRARIANS ARE STILL THE BEST OPTION FOR RESEARCH.

4. Techniquesthat Work Give each student a large manila envelope to hold their materials OR require a 3 ring binder for research Have them print out database articles completely- no cut & paste jobs or they will lose the citation at the end; then hole punch and put in binder or staple and put in envelope Print out webpages Copy pages from books including title page and verso page- Limit to 10 pages per day per book Student must have all materials printed and with them to take back to class to highlight and write note cards and begin outline, etc. The teacher needs a class set of highlighters & the envelopes, notecards

5. Rubric for Finding the Best Info Books in your collection  These days librarians have to insist teachers put print books on their rubric Databases in Traveler  Newspapers that are up to date  Magazines that are up to date Databases you purchase to match your curriculum  Opposing Viewpoints, CLC, Culturegrams, etc., from Gale or Proquest Specific Internet sites (You teach the students to evaluate the credibility)  Restrict to sites found within databases as links, or a list you hand out, or restrict to.edu and.gov unless approved by tchr

6. Good Starting Point: Share a Graphic Organizer with the Teacher  Graphic Organizers for Writing http://wvde.state.wv.us/strategybank/GraphicO rganizersforWriting.html  Many ipad apps like MindMeister, Total Recall- Mind Map, SimpleMind+, Inspiraton Maps Lite, Grafio

8. Using Books Since all classes may be using the same texts, don’t check out books; rather, put them on a cart so that all may have access. Make copies of the pages for students(@cost) and include the title and verso. ISBN number will be important in citing the book on easybib.com

9. Working Bib or Works Cited Page  EASYBIB.com is free and has tabs for books, websites, etc.  The students only need to use EASYBIB for websites and books bc Gale and EBSCO use most recent MLA and put citations on their pages  Teach them to find the source citation on Gale databases and to find the ‘cite article’ on right menu in EBSCO articles – copy and paste it to blank Word document

10. For Book Citations For books look for the ISBN number and type it into EASYBIB.com on the book tab. It will pop up a list of books with that title and you select the correct one. Then tell it to create citation and it does all the work. Copy and paste the completed citation from EASYbib.com into the word doc and save this doc and minimize it

11. Database Citations & EASYBIB  Find the ‘Source Citation’ at the end of the Gale database articles. Copy the entire citation through the period beginning after the words Source Citation.  Paste this under your book citations on the word document you have minimized or saved  You will alphabetize later

12. Websites (not including Databases) and EASYBIB Go to the beginning webpage for your document Copy the address URL –the complete address—from the address bar Paste this long address into EASYBIB.com It will pop up with some red blanks where it needs further info to cite that webpage; these need to be filled in by going back to the webpage and searching for info like who Produced the page (what organization or college or author) or what is the copyright of the page (go to the very bottom and try to find a date on your website); you may only find the year and no month but that is fine. Enter that info Now select ‘create citation’ It should NOT have any “nd” in it which means no data. Copy the citation and paste it onto your word doc.

13. Hanging Indent and Alphabetizing MS Word makes it easy

14. In Word under Paragraph=Hanging indent

15. Alphabetizing: Highlight your page and click the A to Z icon

16. Acceptable Internet Use Applies When students are on computers with access to the Internet, they MUST be supervised. The teacher and the librarian should be circulating and making sure students stay on task and do not begin searching Google as their only source without the knowledge to search correctly. Librarians should collaborate with expectations before the classes arrive and share information so the students have a good research experience.

17. Rachel Shankles 501-276-4949 shankles@cablelynx.com shankles@cablelynx.com http://aaimlibrarywiki.wikispaces.com