Looking to help studnets organize for a research project?

 

NoteStar is a site on 4teachers.org that allows teachers and students to set up research projects and collect notes and information, organize that information, and prepare their bibliography page.

http://notestar.4teachers.org/

When the notestar button is added to the browser toolbar (I dragged it on the bookmark bar) it allows the user to click on that button while on a web being used for research.  Much of the information is automatically entered into the e-card.

While doing research on the Higgs Boson, I find great information on www.exploratorium.edu.  I click on the notestar button at the top of the page and a new window pops up.  I log into my notestar account and some information is automatically filled in.  I add any other pertinent bibliography information and my notes and save my card to my project.

NoteStar works awesome with the Library Databases (if you are not familiar with the databases take a visit to the library and learn--they are a FANTASTIC research source).

NoteStar is not only for online sources.  Students can use it to record notes form books, magazines, journals, newspapers, etc.  It keeps all of their research together in one place.

Thanks for the tutorial Paula!

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