This week’s tidbit are tips for organizing student research using Google Docs.
There are many different ways to organize research, but because the Google Research tool is just so awesome, using Google Docs is just a no brainer. The document below is a modification of this document via Mark Fijor (view his presentation Google Docs and the Common Core).
You’ll notice in column 2 students insert the link to their reference as well as cite their reference. What this does is it organizes their research and their citations all in one place. Students can refer to the footnote when creating their Works Cited page for their products.
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Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers shared the video below on how to substitute the note card method of organizing research with Google Slides. While Google Scholar is available for citations, I prefer Google Documents over Slides because of the cite feature. This is not to take away from the method. I still think it’s fabulous!
How do you use Google to organize your student research?
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