1. NoodleBib
Helps you use your “noodle”!
Taking Notes

2. What is NoodleBib?
Create, store, organize
• Create a bibliography
• Take notes online
• Organize your notes
– Develop your own ideas
– Think about what’s important
• Create [essay, speech, product…]

3. Citations + notes =
Work you’ll be proud of!
• Create an accurate, relevant Works Cited
– Correct style, punctuation, formatting
– Prompts you to check for quality, balance
• Take good notes, keep them organized
– Sources stay linked to notes
– Easy to quote and reference
– Summarize, evaluate, question
– Organize ideas thoughtfully before writing

4. List view

5. Source
Notes
Your notes and sources
stay linked

6. Three-part notes
1. Cut-and-paste Capture author’s words, images
– Get quotes and attribution right
– Mark-up the quote to understand the author’s
idea
2. Paraphrase or summarize Explain it to yourself
– Tag concepts and facts
– Add reminders and tasks
3. My ideas Prompts for original thinking
– Analyze how it fits your research
– Ask questions, evaluate ideas
– List “to do” plan

7. Cut-and-paste first
Author’s image
Author’s words

8. You’ll get quotes and attribution right!

9. Reread and color-code information
Highlight main ideas
Green for statistics
Red for problems

10. Annotating helps you understand

11. Explain it to yourself*
*Using words that you understand

12. What do you think?
I wonder…?
“To do” next

13. Add the main idea last

14. Add tags now…or later
It’s easier to add tags when you know more.

15. You can always go back to the source
Sometimes rereading
clears up questions

16. Use your tabletop to organize notes
Your notes are
waiting here

17. Drag notes
Sort notes however you like!

18. Make piles
Group notes that you feel belong together

19. Add reminders,
colors and tags
Label your notes with visual cues

20. Build your outline on-the-fly…

21. …or build it before you take notes

22. Drag notes and piles
into your outline

23. Get help along the way
Get feedback, make changes
• Print out Works Cited, notes
• E-mail Works Cited, notes
• Fill in [class name] to share your
list with Mrs. Engel-Unruh to get
tips and comments

24. Enough information?
When you think you’re done, review your work
• Can I add more tags now that I know more?
– Label details, themes, concepts
• Other ways to order my ideas?
– Reorder by searching on 2-3 tags at once
• Any loose ends?
• Are there types of sources I missed?
– Use
button to see the type and range of
sources you used

25. Organizing information
Create subtopics and outline
• What notes have similar titles or topics?
– Pile them together
– Add them to your outline
Play with the order, be curious!
• What if I make new combinations of notes?
– Search by one or more tags to find common
ideas among notes
• What other ways can I order my outline?
• Do new grouping suggest new ways to analyze
what I know? New ideas? New questions?

26. Don’t forget to follow your ideas!

27. Easy to add more sources
if you need to!

28. What students say…
• “I love your site! Thank you so much. My senior
paper would be taking me about 10 times as
long!”
• “You guys are amazing!! I shared the site with
my whole English class. Your bibliography
program is incredible! It made making my
bibliography faster, easier, and even fun!”
• “I overheard a young man whining to another
student about a research assignment. The
second student said, ‘Oh get over it, just use
NoodleTools.’” (reported by librarian)

29. Use your “noodle”!
Stay organized, feel successful
• Access your work from home and school
• Safeguard against accidental plagiarism
• Spend your time thinking and creating
(not on commas)
• Get curious, feel creative…have fun!

30. “Noodle” time…start thinking!
Questions?
Contact Mrs. Engel-Unruh if you have
questions
engelmel@chambersburg.k12.pa.us