1. U SE S CREENCASTS, V ISUAL H ANDOUTS AND E ASY B IB TO Q UIETLY T EACH R ESEARCH S KILLS YOUR S TUDENTS WILL M AKE N OISE A BOUT Emily Szyman, M.A.T. & Victoria Jones, Ph.D. Wydown Middle School School District of Clayton, MO Presentation available at tinyurl.com/wydowninfoc

2. O VERVIEW Pre-Teaching for research success What are visual handouts? What are screencasts? How do you create a screencast?

3. O VERVIEW ( CONTINUED ) What is EasyBib? How do you create a project? How do you add sources? How do you take notes? Other options

4. L ESSONS BEFORE THE L ESSONS Thick and Thin Questions Selecting a credible source SMELL test from PBS.org 4 Rs (Relevant, Reliable, Readable & Recent) Plagiarism Paraphrasing vs. Summarizing

5. V ISUAL H ANDOUTS What are visual handouts? How do you create visual handouts?

7. S CREENCASTING What is it? What tools can be used to screencast? Jing (online) Screencast-o-matic (online) Quick Time

9. E ASY B IB What is EasyBib? What are the specific features we use with K-12 students?

10. E ASY B IB P ROJECTS Create Add Credible Bibliographic Sources Share with Teacher & Librarian

12. W EBSITE E VALUATION

13. W EBSITE E VALUATION ( CONTINUED )

14. T AKING N OTES

15. O THER E ASY B IB F EATURES Research Tab Outlining Essay Check

16. O THER O PTIONS Google template & classroomclassroom Noodletools Notestar Traditional notecards

17. T HANK YOU ! D RAWING FOR F REE S CHOOL S UBSCRIPTION Contact information: emilyszyman@claytonschools.net victoriajones@claytonschools.net Presentation & more information available at: tinyurl.com/wydowninfoc