1. NoodleBib Helps you use your “noodle”!
Taking notes

2. What is NoodleBib? Create, store, organize Create a bibliography
Take notes online
Organize your notes
Develop your own ideas
Think about what’s important
Create [essay, speech, product…]

3. Citations + notes = Work you’ll be proud of!
Create an accurate, relevant [source list, bibliography]
Correct style, punctuation, formatting
Prompts you to check for quality, balance
Take good notes, keep them organized
Sources stay linked to notes
Easy to quote and reference
Summarize, evaluate, question
Organize ideas thoughtfully before writing

4. Your work is organized into projects.
Open a project you’ve started…or start a new one

5. Manage a project from your dashboard

6. Keep track of your goal and the assignments

7. Get feedback from your instructor and revise in an organized way

8. List view shows notes

9. Your notes and sources stay linked

10. Three-part notes Cut-and-paste Capture author’s words, images
Get quotes and attribution right
Mark-up the quote to understand the author’s idea
Paraphrase or summarize Explain it to yourself
Tag concepts and facts
Add reminders and tasks
My ideas Prompts for original thinking
Analyze how it fits your research
Ask questions, evaluate ideas
List “to do” plan

11. Cut-and-paste first
Author’s image
Author’s words

12. You’ll get quotes and attribution right!

13. Reread and color-code information
Highlight main ideas
Green for statistics
Red for problems

14. Annotating helps you understand

15. Explain it to yourself*
*Using words that you understand

16. What do you think?
I wonder…?
“To do” next

17. Add the main idea last

18. *It’s easier to add tags when you know more
Add tags now…or later*
*It’s easier to add tags when you know more

19. You can always go back to the source
Sometimes rereading clears up questions

20. Use your tabletop to organize notes
Your new notes
Use your tabletop to organize notes

21. Sort notes however you like!
Drag notes
Sort notes however you like!

22. Group notes that you feel belong together
Make piles
Group notes that you feel belong together

23. Take as many notes as you need to!
A bird’s eye view
Your tabletop is larger than the screen
Take as many notes as you need to!

24. Label your notes with visual cues
Add reminders, colors and tags
Label your notes with visual cues

25. Build your outline on-the-fly…

26. …or create it before you take notes
…or create it before you take notes

27. Drag notes and piles into your outline

28. Get feedback, make changes
Get help along the way
Get feedback, make changes
Print out [source list, notes]
[source list, notes]
Fill in [assignment drop box] to share your list with [Teacher’s name] to get tips and comments

29. Enough information? Can I add more tags now that I know more?
When you think you’re done, review your work
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

30. Organizing information
Create subtopics and outline
What notes have similar titles or topics?
Pile them together
Add them to your outline
Play 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?

31. Don’t forget to follow your ideas!

32. Easy to add more sources if you need to!

33. …and your work can never get lost!
…and your work can never get lost!

34. What students say…
“I love your site! Thank you so much. My senior paper would be taking me about 10 times as long!”
“You guys are amazing!! I shared the site with my whole English class. Your bibliography program is incredible! It made making my bibliography faster, easier, and even fun!”
“I overheard a young man whining to another student about a research assignment. The second student said, ‘Oh get over it, just use NoodleTools.’” (reported by librarian)

35. 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 creative…have fun!

36. “Noodle” time…start thinking!
Questions?
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