Lee Hall & Leslie Cash Technology Resource Teachers Shelby County Schools

1. Welcome Lee Hall & Leslie Cash Technology Resource Teachers Shelby County Schools

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

4. Keep track of websites using social bookmarking sites • Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/

5. Note taking Tools • Evernote: https://www.evernote.com/ • OneNote: Microsoft Office product (also available in Windows Live)

6. 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

7. 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/

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

9. Online Databases • Alabama Virtual Library: http://www.avl.lib.al.us/ • University Collections – password provided by your school – Best place to do your research

10. 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

11. Questions?