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Citation and Research Transformed w/ Easybib

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All students and staff now have access to the upgraded school edition of EasyBib.  This program is not a cure all for all of our citing needs, but it may well be a good tool to initiate more conversation around research and citation skills.  Currently, we are exploring the program, but feel free to help students sign in right away.  The new edition allows students to cite in a variety of citation styles free of charge.  -Kevin

This tool can help you transform what Kasman and Boyer (2015) refer to as the “iterative, social, collaborative—and messy” process of inquiry in their article in this months issue of Educational Leadership titled Research Untethered.

Kevin is curating more information that will help you and your students use Easybib on the US Library Moodle site (under the US Other category), but for now here is some basic access information.

There are five main ways to access this tool, all with your normal ZIS username and password: (a) as a Google App, (b) a Google Add on, (c) extension, (d) through mobile device apps, or (e) directly through the easybib.com website.

Please access any one of these first ON CAMPUS to ensure you receive the Pro version. 

 

(a) Google App
To access this resource sign into your google drive online (no additional sign in necessary for students or faculty) and select the grid icon in the upper right hand corner to view your apps

easybibeasybib access from drive  Easybib icon in drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Add-on w/in Google Docs 
Easybib can also be accessed from within a document by clicking Add-ons too:)

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(c) Extension  
Get the Easybib extension 

get easy bib extension
Add easybib extension
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(d) Mobile app 
Through mobile devices (iTunes app or Android app) which has added features such as scanning bar codes of books

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(e) Easybib.com

Why and How— Short Video Assignments

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HOW

Giving students the choice to use video as a means to display their learning allows them to tap into multiple aspects of creativity and collaboration, but if not confined this choice can become a big time suck.  Consider the following to keep video projects under control:

 

WHY

Keeping the above in mind, here are some examples of how use of short video assignments tap into transformational learning.

Search Tips Continued

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Hopefully by now you have the first three tips that I shared last week down.

  1. Ctrl f  (in most application and generally speaking most websites this combination will present a search box)
  2. Window key and start typing (this will search anything present in Windows 8 including all installed software)
  3. / (in Google Drive online clicking / will automatically place your cursor in the search box)

4.  Search text within PDF’s and Images (Use # 3 above (/) and start typing to search for text within the first 100 pages of any PDF or text document w/i Google drive (or the first 10 pages of any image PDF))
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5. Chrome Search History (Search w/i your Chrome history for quick access to past online work.)  For example I know I need to access something related to Grade 10 that I worked on yesterday.  I would follow these steps:
– Open Chrome and click on History at the top
-Click Show Full History to view all search history by device or to search within

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–search within history

 

 

 

Search Quick Tip #1

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As Daniel Goldman (2014) says, we are asking our homo sapien brains to process fifteen times more information today than we did in 1986.  Until spring break I will be populating a list of quick search tips for all sorts of applications so you can get at what you need faster.

  1. Ctrl f  (in most application and generally speaking most websites this combination will present a search box)
  2. Window key and start typing (this will search anything present in Windows 8 including all installed software)
  3. / (in Google Drive online clicking / will automatically place your cursor in the search box)

 

 

Handout Copies of Google Files Easily

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Did you know that you can simply hand out copies of Google files with one link? Here is how:

 

  1. Create a Google file (doc/sheet/slides/draw)
  2. Click the blue share button and make it visible by anyone with the link
    sharable link
  3. Modify the url (link) by deleting the portion after the backslash (/) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_6hVtaII_2-CYppf56WAVBOnx4N5vwK306n5ovYM-9U/edit?usp=sharing
  4. Replace the deleted text with the word copy
    https://docs.google.com/a/zis.ch/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiqrAI5UxSJNdEpaa3FtaFNXOGdUWmQ2RDl5di1mWWc/copy 
  5. Pass out the link and those receiving it will get this prompt to make their own copy
  6. make a new copy

Save Word Files As…….

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The new version of Word makes it a little tricky to find the save file as options. You will need to do this for comments (as .txt), and it’s also useful to save a Word file as a PDF.  Here is a screenshot that walks you through it:
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Tech Tools for Student Creation

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As students are given more and more choice over how to display their learning, we need to think as an Upper School faculty about the avenues they are choosing.

Here is a simple map from Wesley Fryer that outlines some of the possible ways students create digital works.

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Add a comment to grown the list of tools, and examples in each section.

 

Tap Into the Broader Spoken Word Community

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Resources to tap deeper into spoken word

 

 

 

Add to the Spoken Word Community w/ Video or Get Fast formative feedback

As you likely already know watching and listening to yourself on video can be a powerful self reflective tool.  Having students use video to capture their spoken word performances is a great formative way for them to rework and refine their craft.  In SEVEN clicks one can have captured their performance in webcam style here is how:

 

Click 1: Window Key

Click 2 & 3: Type the letters Mo

Click 4: select Movie Maker (first result when searching for mo:)

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Click 5: Webcam

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Click 6: Record

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Click 7: Stop (clicking and start growing as a Poet:)