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Need Help?
Email Ms. Oremland using your ahs510 account.

Setting Up Noodle Tools

 -Team captain will create new MLA Starter project and name it with team number and subject.

Example: B22 Three Strikes Law

-Team captain will share to dropbox called 2012 Teacher Debates Period#

Example: 2012 Smith Debates 1

-Team captain will share with all other members in the group - share with Noodle Tools usernames

-Calendar chair: Enter due dates in To Do List Area

 -Secretary: Enter debate Question in Dashboard area

Getting Started with Research

Use the following resources ONLY until told otherwise:

1. BOOKS!

2.International Debate Database WEBSITE     ****cite as a WEBSITE, not a database***

3. Our school database (ProQuest / SIRS)

SIRS Database

login ID: ahsresearch

pw: r _ _ _ _ _ _ h

click on the top button to login

4. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database (OVRC) from the public library. You will need a valid library card number.

-login to Albany Public Library's OVRC

-login to Berkeley's OVRC

sign in with card # 2191300*******

[NOW FIXED]  -click on the link for Contra Costa Library's Points of View Database

Sign in using our school e-card # and Ms. Oremland's last name: 21901019992845

Citing database articles in Noodle Tools

    1. first determine: does the article have the info I want?

    2. then determine: what kind of article is this? Newspaper? Magazine? Journal? from some kind of encyclopedia or reference source?

    3. in Noodle Tools:

        -select which kind of article it is

        -then select the Online option

        -then select the option "retrieved from an online database" OR

        ******** if it is a reference article you will have to select the option "other" and "yes"********

    -do NOT include the URL when citing a DATABASE article. Just leave that box blank. 

 

Reminders about creating digital  Note Cards on Noodle Tools (Berletti and Park)

 

-The only boxes to fill out are: Title, Quotation, Paraphrase, My Ideas

-Do not copy and paste more than 3-4 sentences of information. Lots of short note cards are better than one long note card.

-Make sure to pick an excellent Title for your note card. It should be about the main idea. 

GOOD examples: Death penalty costs

                           Death penalty imprisonment statistics

                           Death penalty advantage 

                           Quote from death penalty expert

BAD examples: Death penalty

                        info

                        facts

                        27%

                        quote

 -Under TAGS add a category for your card. You can add multiple tags to each card. This will help you sort your cards later.

 

What if I messed up on a citation?

1. re-enter the citation correctly

2. go to the notecards that were attached to the incorrect citation. Click Edit.
Under "source" change the source to the correct citation.

3. delete the incorrect citation

 

What if I accidentally deleted something on Noodle Tools?

 

NOTECARDS: You can undelete notecards by going to the Notecards screen and clicking on the Recycle Bin button above the Notecard Tabletop area. Note that if they were organized into notecard piles before they were deleted, you'll have to re-create those piles after you undelete the notecards.

 

CITATIONS: You can undelete a citation by clicking the Recycle Bin button in the Bibliography section.