Hi Valerie, 

Happy New Year! And thank you in advance for compiling the information everyone is sharing. 

I just want to add my two cents. My feelings and experiences are similar to Sara from Stratford. While I have been fortunate enough to offer both Noodletools and Easybib to our students, I require that students use Noodletools when they're working on a project that I will provide feedback and assess as it allows me to check in on students' progress and provide feedback easily once they share with the dropbox I create for their class. Also, although I have not utilized it yet, for the past couple of years Noodletools has added the ability to integrate with Google docs. 

As for Easybib, I was already on the fence as to what to do for next year as students still only utilize the autocite features. If the price doubles or triples that will solve my dilemma.

Nella


On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Valerie DiLorenzo <vdilorenzo.rumsey@gmail.com> wrote:
So much excellent, thoughtful feedback (not all of which has gone to whole listserv). I'll compile results and share with all via a Google Doc sometime later today. If you have responded and do NOT want your name included in the compilation, please let me know ASAP. (I'll send the Google doc so that anyone with the link can edit, so you can simply edit as you wish later too.) Should have created a G doc to begin with for people to simply add to!

Thanks all,
~Val

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Valerie DiLorenzo <vdilorenzo.rumsey@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy 2016 to All,

Anyone who subscribes to EasyBib School Edition (paid version of EasyBib, not the free one) is aware of the fact that this platform will no longer be available after June 2016. The company "Imagine Easy" has changed to a platform called Scholar. 

I have some reservations about simply switching to the Imagine Easy Scholar platform. One big concern is that the Scholar extension (through Google) often creates citations wrong (with major mistakes). It's only as good as the metadata used to create it. After a citation is created, students can then edit it to fix the mistakes. 

Though Imagine Easy Scholar works well with the Google platform (this is a plus), in my opinion, Scholar doesn't do as good of a job "teaching" how to evaluate sources or showing how citations are created/built as the EasyBib School Edition platform did. Which brings me to another major concern: even with a discount (44%) for being an EasyBib SE subscriber, the price for Imagine Easy Scholar is three times as much as EasyBib SE.

My question, therefore, is what is everyone else using out there as a research platform to help your students become productive and ethical researchers? In your answer, please include the grade levels you teach.

I've been using EasyBib School Edition with grades 3 - 9 for about 4 years. Before that, we were using NoodleTools with grades 5 - 9. (We made our switch before NoodleTools overhauled their platform.) We made the switch because, at the time, NoodleTools was not working well for our population.

Thank you,
~Valerie

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Valerie DiLorenzo
Library Media Specialist
Rumsey Hall School
201 Romford Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794





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Library Media Specialist
Rumsey Hall School
201 Romford Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794



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