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1. Noodletools
Presented by K
Covintree

2. Create a works cited
Kate Covintree
US Librarian, Wheeler School
Revised from www.noodletools.com/support site

3. Noodletools helps YOU
Organize, create, store, write
• Save personal copies of sources
• Begin a working bibliography
• Copy-and-paste relevant quotes onto notecards
• Paraphrase the author’s words
• Analyze, question and add your own ideas
• Tag and pile your notes – what emerges?
• Create an outline, add piles – reorder and experiment!
• Create a finished product with a printed works cited/
bibliography

4. Getting started
Creating a Project
and
Using Dashboard Features

5. Choose a style
…but if you mess up, you can
change styles later!
Name your project

6. Keep your focus

7. Watch your work grow

8. Keep
everything
together

9. Plan to stay organized

10. Citing a Resource
Features and Steps
for Creating a Bibliographic
Citation

11. Bibliography Screen

12. Choose the best match
From the drop-down menu

13. Copy-and-paste to avoid
spelling errors

14. Correct errors
on the fly!

15. Watch the citation
“build” as you type
Part
Whole

16. Search WorldCat’s library
catalog for your book
Identify your book

17. Review and edit the elements
(We’ve done some checking already!)

18. Save to your list

19. Certain sources (e.g.,
popular reference works)
are only cited in notes in
Chicago style.
If you need to include a
source because you’ve
annotated it, you can!

20. Choose “Edit” to revise what
you’ve already done

21. Additional Features
Parenthetical Citation Help
Printing Tips and More!

22. See how to make your
in-text reference for
MLA and APA

23. …or the full and and
Or a footnote shortened
shortened footnote for
footnote for Chicago style
Chicago style

24. If you’re confused
Created by K Covintree,
Jan ‘09

25. Get help when
you need it!

26. Keep a portfolio of your work

27. When you’re ready to print
Choose one of these options
No need to cut and paste
into another document.
Created by K Covintree,
Jan ‘09

28. Format and export your
bibliography to a word
processor (or Google docs)

29. Sharing your work
Making your work visible to your
teacher for comments and review

30. Share with
your teacher!!

31. Access links to additional
resources: Libguides,
Assignment, Notes, etc.

32. Use feedback from your
teachers to improve your work

33. Read comments on
your notes

34. See comments on your
sources too!

35. Time to get working
• Click the "Create a Personal ID“ button to register
as a new user
• If you are prompted, at the “New User
Registration” screen, enter the school username
and password (ask Ms. Covintree)
• Create your personal ID and password
• When you use NoodleTools after that, login only
with your personal ID and password

36. NoodleTools
Start your research!
Questions?
For more teaching ideas:
support [at] noodletools [dot] com