Lee Hall & Leslie CashTechnology Resource Teachers

Shelby County Schools

WELCOME

Like it or not, if you’re going to college, you’re going to do it.

Keep track of websites using social bookmarking sites

• Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/

Note taking Tools

• Evernote: https://www.evernote.com/ • OneNote: Microsoft Office product (also

available in Windows Live)

Citing your sources

• Word 2007 and up• Son of Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/• Asks you step by step to add the needed information• Copy & Paste• Easy Bib http://www.easybib.com/

• Makes citation for you and adds it to a Bibliography• Can save as Word doc, Google doc, email, or copy/paste• Automatically adds access date to web citations, so make these

as you research

Find what you want on the Internet

• NOT Wikipedia as a source, but maybe as a place to start– Most plagiarized site– Followed by: answers.yahoo.com, answers.com,

slideshare.net, and oppapers.com• Google Advanced Search: http://www. google.com/ – Choose date to get recent research– Check usage rights

• Google Scholar Search: http://scholar.google.com/

Research 101: http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/index.html

Online Databases

• Alabama Virtual Library: http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

• University Collections – password provided by your school – Best place to do your research

Tools to help with the actual paper

• Save often – Windows Live lets you save to the cloud and retrieve from any computer with Internet

• May want to buy small printer for room – cheaper than lab costs of printing

• PaperRater: http://www.paperrater.com/– Free– Checks Grammar & Spelling– Offers writing suggestions to help improve paper– Plagiarism detection lets you know if your paper contains

plagiarized text

QUESTIONS?