[CASL-L] research/citation tools--what is your school using?--I'll compile the results

[Dawn Zillich]

Hi everyone,



I’m desperately seeking some advice from my peers on this. Inspired by
everyone’s comments and seeing students at my school sometimes struggle
with citation, I talked to a department chairperson at my school thinking
they would be interested but instead I was met with almost hostility. The
only tool acceptable to this teacher is Purdue Owl. I understand the
teacher has had problems with students misusing Easybib and not filling in
missing information (which can be done often with a quick referral back to
the source), but I never thought suggesting an additional source would
cause such an uproar. How do I convince teachers to at least consider
alternate citation tools when the chairperson is so against other options?
Anyone else have this problem and how did you resolve the issue?



Thanks,



Dawn M. Zillich, librarian

St. Paul Catholic High School



“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next

year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, *Four Quartets*







*From:* CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces+dzillich=spchs.com at mylist.net] *On
Behalf Of *Valerie DiLorenzo
*Sent:* Wednesday, January 06, 2016 10:18 AM
*To:* casl-l at mylist.net
*Subject:* Re: [CASL-L] research/citation tools--what is your school
using?--I'll compile the results



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 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



-- 

Valerie DiLorenzo

Library Media Specialist

Rumsey Hall School

201 Romford Road

Washington Depot, CT 06794



http://thelibrarynotes.wordpress.com/

860-868-0535 x122





-- 

Valerie DiLorenzo

Library Media Specialist

Rumsey Hall School

201 Romford Road

Washington Depot, CT 06794



http://thelibrarynotes.wordpress.com/

860-868-0535 x122
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