NoodleTools for Students - how to take notes
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NoodleTools is a digital organizer that helps students stay organized while researching and writing papers. It allows students to build a bibliography, take notes on notecards while copying and paraphrasing quotes, analyze ideas by tagging notes, create outlines by dragging notes into piles, and receive feedback directly on notecards. All of a student's work is organized into projects and remains linked and accessible from any device. The tool is designed to help students think critically about their topics in a flexible way while keeping their research organized.
![What is NoodleTools?
Gather, organize, think, create
Begin a working bibliography
Copy-and-paste relevant quotes onto notecards
Paraphrase the authors words
Analyze, question and add your own ideas
Tag and pile your notes what emerges?
Create an outline, add piles reorder and
experiment!
Create [essay, speech, product] with a
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![Noodle timestart thinking!
Questions?
For more teaching ideas:
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NoodleTools for Students - how to take notes
- 1. NoodleTools Helps you stay organized Taking notes
- 2. What is NoodleTools? Gather, organize, think, create Begin a working bibliography Copy-and-paste relevant quotes onto notecards Paraphrase the authors words Analyze, question and add your own ideas Tag and pile your notes what emerges? Create an outline, add piles reorder and experiment! Create [essay, speech, product] with a bibliography
- 3. Your work is organized into projects. Open an existing project or start a new one
- 4. Manage your project from the Dashboard
- 5. Find big picture info here: Research question Assignments Group members
- 6. All your work is here including a record of what youve done!
- 7. You can add reminders to yourself
- 8. Read feedback then revise in an organized way
- 9. See feedback right on your notecard
- 10. Source Notes Feedback Everything stays linked
- 11. Go to the tabletop to see all your notecards
- 12. Check the birds eye view for out-of-sight notecards
- 13. A notecard is an organizer for ideas Copy and paste here Capture the authors words and images Get quotes and attribution right Mark up the quote
- 14. Paraphrase or summarize Paraphrase here Explain it to yourself In words you understand Look back at the quote got it all?
- 15. My Ideas is for questions, brainstorming Original thinking here What do you wonder? How does this fit with what you know? What can you follow up on?
- 16. Youll get quotes and attribution right!
- 17. Then start to mark it up
- 20. Help Close reading boosts your comprehension
- 21. Explain it to yourself Help
- 22. If you have trouble identifying a main idea: 1.Reread the quote to get the gist. 2.Is there more than one main idea? If so, just split your quote into two notecards.
- 23. Help
- 24. Use My Ideas in a flexible way
- 25. If your note isnt linked to a source, find it in this list of all your sources
- 26. If you can, add a tag now
- 27. when you know more it will be easier!
- 28. Your new notecards are waiting on the tabletop
- 29. Add colors and cues to remind yourself what needs to be done and whats important.
- 30. Search tags to highlight related ideas
- 31. Create a new pile from your highlighted notecards
- 32. Piles are possible subtopics for an outline
- 33. Build your outline 看稼-岳鞄艶-韓鉛霞
- 34. or create it before you take notes.
- 35. Drag notes and piles into your outline
- 36. Watch your outline grow as you add notecards
- 37. Organize flexibly and playfully What notes have similar titles or topics? Pile them together Add them to your outline Experiment with the order, be curious! What if I make new combinations of notes? Search by one or more tags to find common ideas among notes What other ways can I order my outline? Do new grouping suggest new ways to analyze what I know? New ideas? New questions?
- 38. Review, reflect, reorder, revise When you think youre done, take another look! Can I add more tags now that I know more? Label details, themes, concepts Other ways to order my ideas? Reorder by searching on 2-3 tags at once Any loose ends? Are there types of sources I missed? Use button to see the type and range of sources you used
- 39. Dont forget to follow your ideas!
- 40. Its easy to add more sources if you need to!
- 41. You can create a portfolio over time and your work can never get lost!
- 42. Use your noodle! Stay organized, feel successful Access your work from home and school Safeguard against accidental plagiarism Spend your time thinking and creating (not on commas) Get curious, feel creativehave fun!
- 43. Noodle timestart thinking! Questions? For more teaching ideas: support [at] noodletools [dot] com
Editor's Notes
- Note: There are tutorials on notecards, tagging and other features of the Tabletop here: http://www.noodletools.com/helpdesk/index.php?action=downloads#category-3
- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=Overview2.html
- Your question, teacher assignments, student collaborators
- Your question, teacher assignments, student collaborators
- Your question, teacher assignments, student collaborators
- Your question, teacher assignments, student collaborators
- Your question, teacher assignments, student collaborators
- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=CreatingANotecard.html
- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=NavigatingTheTabletop.html
- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=WhyUseAnOutline.html
- http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/usersguide/index.html?n=Overview2.html