http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:54:23 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:54:23 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80637 NoodleTools, Inc. was co-founded in 1999 by mother and son team Debbie and Damon Abilock. NoodleTools' flagship product, NoodleBib, has emerged as the leading bibliography software on the Internet, transforming bibliographic instruction methodologies in thousands of subscribing schools and libraries. The NoodleTools team offers expert help and unparalleled customer support to the students and professionals who depend on NoodleBib and other award-winning tools in the NoodleTools research suite.NoodleBib is a fully-integrated note-taking and documentation program which is anchored in the best practices of academic research and inquiry learning. Known as the most comprehensive and accurate MLA- and APA-style bibliography composer on the Web, NoodleBib now includes a note-taking component which enables you to extract, organize and synthesize information that you find during the research process. NoodleBib is a flexible teaching tool which supports both individual learning preferences and a variety of teaching styles.For an overview of NoodleBib, visit the video tours:http://www.noodletools.com/bibtour/Other free content: NoodleBib Express and NoodleBib MLA Starter: Free versions of NoodleBib. NoodleTools Knowledge Base: Expert advice and examples of how to cite sources. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need: Search strategies based on an analysis of your topic. NoodleQuest: Develop the optimum Web-based search strategy, based on your research topic (an interactive version of "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need"). NoodleTeach: 21st Century Literacies (Tools for Reading the World) and Curriculum Collaboration Toolkit (Tools for Shared Teaching and Learning).For a more detailed description of the research tools available on the site, please see: http://www.noodletools.com/tools.html http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=683188 'Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore with a few simple steps. And before you know it, you’re a published author.Apple-designed templates• Give your book a great beginning with templates that include a choice of page designs with matching fonts, colors, and textures• Easily customize your book with text and images, create new layouts, and even save a custom template• Use the Book Navigator to organize your book and add a cover and table of contentsBeautiful text and layouts• Use a variety of text styles in each template to give your book a rich yet consistent look• Add text, shapes, charts, tables, and media anywhere on the page• Import a chapter written in Pages or Microsoft Word and apply a great-looking layout from your current template• Add any word to the glossary with a single click and easily include photos, images, charts, tables, and shapes next to any definition• Automatically create a portrait view of your book, which allows readers to focus on the textMulti-Touch widgets• Choose from a variety of widgets that add Multi-Touch interactivity to your book• Add a photo gallery, chapter review, movie, Keynote presentation, interactive image with callouts, 3D object, or custom HTML anywhere in your book• Widgets include placeholders for titles and captions and are automatically numbered so you can reference them in your main text• Add accessibility descriptions to any widget so that it can be used by sight-impaired readers easily with VoiceOver'This is a free app http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=389202 Resources for all levels of teaching related to Appalachian folklore and literature: articles, bibliographies, study guides, lesson plans, links, reviews, Appalachian picture gallery, writing and art by students, some reprinted literary works and folktales, some material on ballads and other folk music. Focus is on literature for children and young adults but some literature for adults is included in relation to teaching at all levels and literature about childhood. Folklore sections (not limited to children's books) include extensive annotated multicultural bibliographies with parallel tales from other places listed, articles, study guides, and folklore texts, mainly from James Taylor Adams Collection of southwestern VA. Rex Stephenson's adaptation of "Mutsmag" is an online storybook illustrated with drawings by primary grade children. Material on Appalachian dialects and Cherokee language included. Submissions by students and adults are welcome. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=369820 ״This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76360 Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button... you will get an individual entry for a "Works Cited" page, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90064 An online Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus, this web site features a search function for looking up the definition of words and phrases. Help is easily available including Anatomy of an Entry which explains how to read a search result. It also includes word practice and games, words of the week, a newsletter, and more. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86039 WritingFix is an interactive writing assistance site that provides help to authors and students needing to get started writing fiction or editing and forming a research type paper. Their main attraction is the interactive Instant Plot Creator which allows you to choose a setting, character, and conflict to give you an idea to start writing from. They also have an interactive Random Prompt Generator which spits out ideas from other writers which may be good topics or ideas to start from when writing a story or paper. These little tools are very unique and something Ive never seen before. Along with these fun tools the site also features general writing help organized cleanly. I feel that the interactivity makes it a fine Merlot candidate alone but the extra writing resources make it even more valuable for any student. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77305 This is the seminal article describing C. E. Shannon's mathematical model of Communication, originally printed in the Bell Systems Technical Journal in 1948. This is the original source for the standard Source-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model of communication frequently used in the analysis of speech and media communication. Speech students will be surprised by the amount of math in this landmark work in their field. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=422422 A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=298140 This is a guide to some activities to help you get started when writing reflectively.