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

[Fiorelli, Dawn]

I exchanged several emails with Easybib last year when I learned they were sunsetting Easybib School Edition.  I’ve been a loyal, happy subscription user for years and I depend on it as a teaching tool for my 7th and 8th graders.  I’ve begged them to consider keeping a school edition as an option for users who did not want Scholar.  I wonder if hearing from so many of you who will not be upgrading to Scholar would help them reconsider their business choices.

Dawn Fiorelli
Library Media Specialist
Polson Middle School
Madison, CT

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

This is great! We use EasyBib but will most likely not renew for next year. We trialed Scholar but I thought it was too much work on the teacher end to set up assignments, and those tools would never get used. I like hearing how NoodleTools make students think more about creating their citations. I just could never get students to go back and complete those empty boxes. I was thinking of not going with a specific tool but after hearing others discuss the usefulness of these tools in preparing for college- will reconsider.

Thanks!
Kathy McNeiece
Head Librarian
Hamden Hall Country Day School

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Sue Lantelme <SLantelme at ledyard.net<mailto:SLantelme at ledyard.net>> wrote:

I couldn't agree more with all the  Noodletools comments. We just switched after a couple of years with Easybib. The new interface which will come to us in Fall 2016 has taken care of many small annoying pieces. They even asked about making the change mid year (over the holiday break) and enough users were using the tool mid year they moved the change to end of school year, causing less disruption. If you're considering the purchase & can wait till Fall 2016, I'd recommend waiting.

I think the biggest plus is the School Librarian,  Deb Abilock​ & her son created the tool, enough said!

Happy New Year!



Sue Lantelme

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


Interesting reasoning.

I hope LMSs continue to respond, and add what they like and dislike about Noodletools.

Jackie Church
Spring Glen School
Hamden, CT
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Subject: Re: [CASL-L] research/citation tools--what is your school using?

We have been Noodle Tools subscribers for many years. We looked at Easy Bib and rejected it because it did too much work for the students.  Students could easily create an entire works cited list without ever actually opening or reading any sources.

I don't like the way Noodle Tools works on an iPad but I find it reliable in every other way. (it works on an iPad, it is just more finicky and less consistent)

I still stand by Noodle Tools as the best citation tool out there for teaching students to create their own citations.

-  Jennifer Rocca
Brookfield High School
Librarian

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