WHI - MLA Workshop: Home

Responsible research means:

• Keeping track of your sources using notecards & citing your sources in correct MLA format (bibliography)

Creating a project in Noodletools:

• Log in to your FCPS gmail
• Go to the Google Apps 9 square waffle (upper right hand side)
• Select: Noodletools
• ** Let your teacher know if you do not automatically land on your Noodletools Project page
• Select: "New Project" (upper left hand side)
• Give your project a title (ex. Reign of Terror)
• Keep the default citation style (MLA)
• Change the citation level to Junior
• Select: Submit

Sharing your project with your teacher's inbox:

• On the Dashboard page - Sharing and Collaboration box (2nd box down)
  • Select: Share with a project inbox
  • Your teacher will provide the name of the project inbox 
  • If needed, make sure you select the correct period (either 1st or 3rd)
  • Select: Done

Create a citation in Noodletools:

• In Noodletools select: Sources (banner in the center top of the page)
• Select: Create new citation
• First, Noodletools asks you: where does information comes from?
  • 
• Second, Noodletools asks you: What type of information is it?
  • 
• If the source you are using provides a citation (i.e. databases)
  • Select: Quick cite: copy and paste
  • DO NOT build the citation by hand when it is already provided
• Paste the citation in the large box
  • Check for an inaccuracies
    • Use the MLA Guide on the upper right hand side of the screen for guidance
  • Save
• If the source does not provide a citation (i.e. most websites)
  • Build the citation using the prompts provided by Noodletools
  • Provide AS MUCH information as you possibly can.
  • A URL is not a citation

Create a notecard in Noodletools:

• In Noodletools select: Notecard (banner in the center top of the page)
• Select: New
• Give the notecard a title that makes sense to you
• Select: source (where the notecard information originates)
• Choose which box to put your notes in
  • Copy & paste direct quotes
  • Paraphrase
  • Original thoughts
• Save & close
• ** When you have more that 1 notecard you can make piles
  • Hint: this is when the title of your notecards will be important - and you can combine notecards from different sources that are about the same topic

Exporting bibliography and/or notecards to Google Docs

Bibliography step 1: 

Bibliography step 2:

• Use the drop down menu to select - Print/Export to Google Docs

Notecards step 1: 

Notecards step 2:

• Use the drop down menu to select: Export to Google Docs