[CASL-L] research/citation tools--what is your school using?

[Melissa Thom]

Hello!

We started the year with easybib but switched to Noodletools when the
district supervisor found out how much it would cost to continue with
easybib next year.  This is my first year as an LMS and as I understand it,
the district had noodletools before they had switched to easybib.

Melissa

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Valerie DiLorenzo <
vdilorenzo.rumsey at 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
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