Research

What tech tools can you use in the classroom to help make research projects less taxing for you and your students? Try these:

Twurdy is a site using a Google search engine. What makes Twurdy unique is that it
 *  filters articles and returns less extraneous information than a straight Google or Yahoo search
 *  automatically ranks articles and sorts them into reading levels

Mashpedia works something like Wikipedia. But, what makes it different is that, in addition to retrieving an encyclopedia style article, it also retrieves other related articles from the Internet. What's more, searches pull up books, news, pictures, logs, videos and so on--all related to the item the user is researching.

 Turnitin Turnitin is one of those plagiarism prevention (perhaps better plagiarism deterring) services often used at the secondary and tertiary school levels. The service works on a proprietary algorithm that checks papers against works that are available for sale on the Internet.

Evernote

Zotero is a free service that allows users to collect, organize, cite, and share research sources--and all the information resides in "the cloud". It obviates rings of index cards onto which students of the past wrote and sorted their sources for research projects.

Noodle Tools