Many students suffer through making citations on projects every year. In response to the growing demand for a program to help ease the stress of projects, NDP purchased a subscription to Noodle Tools. Noodle Tools is a website that helps students cite information accurately, make digital flashcards and keep track of how much time is left before a project is due. The user friendly and easy to understand design of Noodle Tools helps students to pick up the program quickly. Results from a survey taken on the uses and efficiency Noodle Tools revealed that over eighty-five percent of students have used and liked Noodle Tools. The results also stated that over eighty percent of the student body uses Noodle Tools multiple times a year for flashcards as well as projects. Noodle Tools is set up with an easy to use interface that guides the student through the process of making citations with ease. Noodle Tools also has a program that allows students to make flash cards and study them online. In addition, Noodle Tools will save a student’s project indefinitely, which makes referencing past year’s assignments easy. When surveyed, students reported that they find Noodle Tools to be both user-friendly and helpful to them in their daily school lives. Many middle school students use Noodle Tools multiple times a year and report that it is simple to learn, and easy to use. Mrs. Potter, the learning specialist, highly recommends the use of Noodle Tools as an asset to students. Mrs. Lorenz also promotes Noodle tools: “I absolutely love Noodle Tools; I wish they had it when I was working on my Master’s Thesis because my work would have been more organized…. The program guides them [sixth graders] through the research process and helps them turn in quality research papers and projects.” Noodle Tools can be helpful to any student who wishes to cite information or study online!
Noodle Tools- a Great Asset to Students
Anna Bowman, Features Editor
October 26, 2011
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ndpguest • Nov 17, 2011 at 7:31 pm
What I like best about Noodle is that it is a thinking person’s resource. While we may laugh when we ask Noodle for book citation format and the program responds with the equivalent of “Are you sure you mean a book?”, the program asks the kinds of questions that force us to think and focus, and so produce a much more accurate bibliography entry. As a teacher, I also love it because I can evaluate sources, quotes, and paraphrases without collecting physical cards. The biggest endorsement I hear is that NDP graduates have chosen to purchase individual subscriptions ($15/yr) for college work. “Noodle is saving my LIFE!” is a statement I hear regularly from recent grads. The more you explore it, the more valuable it will become! Mrs. Reichelt