Lines Teachers Share Their Best Research Citation Tips

Back in December 2019, Barrington 220 teachers were asked to share their best (#220ShareYourBest) ways to help your students cite text or image sources. Allow me to reference that Lines Elementary School teachers have been cited for providing two excellent ideas!

Teacher Librarian and one of our district’s resident experts on the topic of citing sources, Amy Rolain, suggests partnering with one of our Teacher Librarians:

“Collaborate with your building's Teacher Librarian to introduce or review Noodletools, a powerful research platform that supports students and staff with MLA, APA, and Chicago citations, notecards, and outlining.”

Lines Grade 3 teacher (and District Technology Committee member) Sarah Dowdy shares a useful tip about finding images appropriate to use:

“In third grade we have talked about making sure we use images that we have  permission to use. The students perform an Image Search in Google and tap/click on the word Tools (at the top of the page). A horizontal menu of options is displayed including: Size, Color, Usage rights, Type, and Time. Tap/click on Usage rights to find a drop-down menu. Click on one of the Labeled for reuse options to narrow the search. You will only see images with permission to be reused in this quick and easy tip to follow copyright guidelines.

Amy and Sarah will each receive highly sought-after #bsd220tech prize for sharing their ideas with you.

The topic for the January 2020 #220ShareYourBest is:

Share your best productivity tip using G Suite (Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, or another Google app or service).

bit.ly/220shareyourbest