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Zentation - Karl Siegert
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5 to 12
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Do you have a PowerPoint presentation AND YouTube video to combine for your next presentation? Zentation helps you combine these two tools into one dynamic presentation with both the...more
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Do you have a PowerPoint presentation AND YouTube video to combine for your next presentation? Zentation helps you combine these two tools into one dynamic presentation with both the slides AND the video showing side by side. This presentation method can share the "live" presenter (from a video) and his/her slides together on the screen. Watch the demo to see what the results look like. After creating your account, choose New Presentation to begin. Provide a name and description. Click the Start under the Public column. (Premium Private provides additional paid options.) Copy/paste in the link to your prerecorded YouTube or Google video. Upload your PowerPoint from your computer or link to a SlideShare presentation and choose "Upload PPT." Once all uploads finish, use the sync option in your account to add descriptions and modify slide display time as needed to sync with the video. Use the share button to share your finished project via URL, embed into your blog, send through email, or create a link with thumbnail images. If your district blocks YouTube, you may not be able to use this tool at school.
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tag(s): slides (40)
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Use your existing presentations along with video of you narrating them (or other video) and upload them to Zentation. Zentation is perfect for use in your BYOD or 1:1 classroom. It does use Flash, so iOS devices will not display the results. Use during your presentations to increase student interest and interaction. Share with students for use to combine their own slides and video to create a more dynamic presentation. To find Creative Commons images for student projects (with credit, of course), try Vecteezy, reviewed here. Use Zentation as an excellent resource for creating and sharing review materials on your website. It would also be a great way to "flip" your classroom. Use the video area to include examples of a scientific process (found on YouTube) or even video of students themselves explaining student-created review or presentation slides in a format you can easily share and archive on a class web page or wiki. Anything you can put on video can go in the left video box! If you have students who are too shy to present in person, this would be a great way for them to record and combine slides with video of themselves. Teacher-librarians could record students doing booktalks alongside slides of images from the book or illustrations the students draw themselves.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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ZEP - ZEP Co., Ltd
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9 to 12
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ZEP is a virtual space where members can move, speak, and interact with other community members and objects. ZEP allows subscribers to create virtual chatrooms that resemble real-life...more
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ZEP is a virtual space where members can move, speak, and interact with other community members and objects. ZEP allows subscribers to create virtual chatrooms that resemble real-life offices, classrooms, social gatherings, and businesses. Teachers can create virtual rooms, called spaces, using provided templates or create a room from scratch by starting with an empty map. Rooms can accommodate up to 20 people at a time. Members must be at least 14 years old to have an account, and it requires parental permission for minors. Zep does allow your space to be password protected, among other security settings, to create a safer online environment for your students.
tag(s): digital escapes (29), game based learning (323), quizzes (84)
In the Classroom
Zep is a fun interactive space with many possibilities for classroom use! Choose from several games for content review or brain breaks. Quiz Show is a survival game where players survive by correctly answering quiz questions from the room host (the teacher). Escape Room is a game where you solve puzzles, discover clues, and complete tasks to escape from the game's setting in a limited time. The OX Quiz is a game where you correctly answer questions as they appear to survive. Choose the correct side and last to the end! Teachers can enhance their digital classrooms by adding announcements and links, collaboration spaces, and personalizing their space. Another great way to utilize the digital space is to make locations that may be physically inaccessible available digitally.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ZeroGPT - ZeroGPT
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6 to 12
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The ZeroGPT Plus website offers a free, web-based AI content detection tool that requires no sign-up. Educators, writers, and students can paste text into the tool to receive an instant...more
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The ZeroGPT Plus website offers a free, web-based AI content detection tool that requires no sign-up. Educators, writers, and students can paste text into the tool to receive an instant analysis indicating whether the content is likely human-written, AI-generated, or a mix of both. The tool highlights specific sentences with color-coded indicators and provides an overall percentage score to help users identify areas for revision to improve authenticity. ZeroGPT Plus supports detection in more than 20 languages and includes features such as paraphrasing, grammar checking, and an "AI Humanizer" to help improve AI-sounding text.
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tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), editing (98)
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Give students two short paragraphs, one human-written and one AI-generated, without telling them which is which. Students vote or discuss which one they believe was written by a person. Then, paste both into ZeroGPT Plus to test their predictions and spark a discussion on writing style, tone, and what makes writing "feel" human. After identifying a passage flagged as AI-generated, have students work in pairs to revise it so it sounds more human. They can adjust sentence length, add figurative language, personal anecdotes, or rhetorical questions. After editing, students retest the revised version in ZeroGPT to see if their changes improved the human-likeness score. Have students write a paragraph, then use an AI tool (like ChatGPT, reviewed here or another) to rewrite it. They can analyze both versions using ZeroGPT Plus and compare the scores and stylistic differences.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ZeroGPT - ZeroGPT
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4 to 12
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ZeroGPT offers a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including a plagiarism checker, chat, summarizer, spell checker, citation generator, and more. Select a tool from the left...more
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ZeroGPT offers a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including a plagiarism checker, chat, summarizer, spell checker, citation generator, and more. Select a tool from the left side of the chat box, then type in text, upload a document, or paste text to begin. Registration isn't required but allows you to save and access your history. Free plans include up to 15,000 characters in AI detection, 1,500 in the AI Summarizer, 300 words in the paraphraser, and 1,000 prompts in ZeroChat-4.
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tag(s): artificial intelligence (358), citations (32), editing (98), plagiarism (33), summarizing (30), writing (304)
In the Classroom
Use ZeroGPT for several purposes, including checking student work for AI-written content with the AI detector tool. However, caution should be exercised, as not all information provided by AI tools is accurate. The AI checker gives you a percentage likelihood that the content is either written by AI or a human. This site should be used as part of a qualified educator's overall evaluation of work and not as a sole means of evaluation. If students use AI to create writing projects, images, or media, teach them to use the citation generator to provide credit for using AI in their work.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ziggity Zoom - Ziggity Zoom LLC
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K to 3
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Ziggity Zoom provides games, activities, and craft ideas for young children. The top of the Home Page includes the categories: Seasonal, Eat, Arts and Crafts, Play and Learning. Featured...more
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Ziggity Zoom provides games, activities, and craft ideas for young children. The top of the Home Page includes the categories: Seasonal, Eat, Arts and Crafts, Play and Learning. Featured resources include Fall Nature Crafts, Fun & Games Sticks, Octopus Tag Outdoor Family Game, and Old Fashioned Backyard Fun.
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tag(s): crafts (109), digital storytelling (182), interactive stories (23), preK (352), puzzles (178)
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Use Ziggity Zoom as a resource for parents to do activities at home with their children. Students can complete activities from the Learning section including word searches, letter sound matches, and how many words can you make. Finally, students can create the crafts that are highlighted on the site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zight - Zight
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K to 12
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Zight, formerly known as CloudApp, is a visual communication tool for creating and sharing screen recordings, screenshots, annotated images, and GIFs. Download Zight for your device...more
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Zight, formerly known as CloudApp, is a visual communication tool for creating and sharing screen recordings, screenshots, annotated images, and GIFs. Download Zight for your device or use its Chrome extension to capture your screen, webcam, and microphone. Use annotation tools to highlight important information, and create GIFs or edit recordings with the available trimming and editing tools. When you're finished, Zight automatically creates a shareable link you can copy and send to others. Zight integrates with tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zendesk, Jira, and others. The free Share plan supports one user, up to 25 items, and screen recordings up to 5 minutes each. Paid plans include additional recording, editing, AI, collaboration, and storage features.
tag(s): digital storytelling (182)
In the Classroom
Download and use Zight in many ways in all classrooms. Make screen recordings to share how-to information on navigating websites. Use the annotation tools to highlight important information and the location of website tools. Have students use Zight to share their screens when facing difficulty using sites. Create collections of videos for students to access, including instructions for logging in to various websites, searching effectively, or sharing information digitally. This feature is especially handy when you need to share video instructions for any purpose.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ZipCaptions - GitHub
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K to 12
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ZipCaptions is a tool that generates accurate captions and subtitles for videos, making multimedia content more accessible for students. Teachers can use ZipCaptions to enhance comprehension,...more
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ZipCaptions is a tool that generates accurate captions and subtitles for videos, making multimedia content more accessible for students. Teachers can use ZipCaptions to enhance comprehension, support multilingual learners, and provide accessibility for students with hearing impairments. The tool can also aid in literacy development by allowing students to follow along with spoken content. Teachers can use this tool to caption instructional videos, student presentations, or even storytelling projects. This resource is especially useful for flipped classrooms, video-based assignments, or enhancing engagement with digital content.
tag(s): Accessibility (13), hearing impaired (8)
In the Classroom
Have students watch an educational video with ZipCaptions enabled and take notes on key points, unfamiliar vocabulary, and main ideas. In pairs, they can discuss how captions helped them better understand the content. Students can create a short educational video using Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here on a topic such as explaining a concept in science, history, or literature. Have the teacher play a video with ZipCaptions, and students can complete a scavenger hunt worksheet looking for items such as a word with a prefix or suffix, identifying a simile or metaphor, or listing three key facts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ziplet - ziplet
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K to 12
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ziplet is a free student response system that works on all devices. Use ziplet to send questions to students instantly or schedule them in advance. After registration, follow the steps...more
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ziplet is a free student response system that works on all devices. Use ziplet to send questions to students instantly or schedule them in advance. After registration, follow the steps to create a group, invite students, and ask questions. Choose from different options for student responses, including multiple-choice, short answer, emoji reactions, or a scaled score from 1-7. Invite students into your group using the provided code. Students use their Google account to login and access questions. Upon receiving responses, Loop provides options for responding to students. Free accounts allow two teachers to use the application with three groups and 50 students per group.
tag(s): assessment (142), game based learning (323), gamified learning (78), polls and surveys (44), quizzes (84)
In the Classroom
Use ziplet to engage students throughout your lessons and to provide feedback on student understanding. ziplet is also perfect for use as an exit ticket response or use as an informal formative assessment. Use ziplet to create pretests that allow students to "opt-out" of material they already know or use it to create review activities that students participate in as teams.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zoho Online Surveys - Zoho Corporation
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3 to 12
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Creating online surveys just became easier and quicker using Zoho. Simply use the survey editor to add questions, edit, and modify your survey. Choose from 15 different question types...more
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Creating online surveys just became easier and quicker using Zoho. Simply use the survey editor to add questions, edit, and modify your survey. Choose from 15 different question types such as multiple choice or more advanced options such as a matrix. Use logic within responses to skip or present questions based on user response. Use social media to share surveys and feedback via links Facebook and others. Add a QR code on print material if desired to access surveys.
tag(s): polls and surveys (44)
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Copy/paste the link to the poll or use the embed code to place in a wiki, blog, or a site. Be sure that students use the poll appropriately and know that personal information is not acceptable in poll responses. Use polls anywhere to record quick responses to questions. Have students create a poll about their interests and allow time to analyze responses and report findings. Use this site to vote for correct answers in math class, project ideas for science or social studies, social issues in current events, and practically any other subject area. Students should be encouraged to incorporate polls during class presentations. In an elementary math class, collect quick data to show use of graphs. Share the graphs on your projector or interactive whiteboard in "real time." Provide options for students to gain confidence in generating and analyzing statistics they have created. Include a quick parent poll, on a class website, to keep the lines of communication open. An iPad app is available for easy use in mobile settings.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Zoho Show - ZOHO Corporation
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K to 12
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Zoho Show is an online presentation and document creator tool. This program is somewhat simpler than PowerPoint, but runs on a similar format. Use this tool as you would PowerPoint...more
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Zoho Show is an online presentation and document creator tool. This program is somewhat simpler than PowerPoint, but runs on a similar format. Use this tool as you would PowerPoint with your students. It is very advantageous if you have assigned a project and students do not have access to PowerPoint at home. This can be accessed anywhere with no cost to the student, the parent, or you. Sharing and collaborating is also simple. Upload, edit, and save your documents easily.
tag(s): multimedia (71), slides (40)
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To use this site, you will need to create an account. You will need to navigate using onscreen instructions. There is a video tour of the features if you would like to view it, but it is just as fun and easy to play with the tool. Slide themes are limited, but the tools are simple and it is easy to publish to a URL that can be shared with everyone.Use this tool to create presentations when students will need more than class time to finish. Have students make individual presentations. Instead of presenting on projector, have them share to the class wiki or within their zoho group to promote discussion and peer review. Assign a round-robin peer review so everyone gets some feedback.
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Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Zoom - Eric Yuan
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K to 12
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Collaborate with up to 100 participants from anywhere and at any time with Zoom's free online video conferencing options. Features include screen sharing, scheduled or instant meeting...more
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Collaborate with up to 100 participants from anywhere and at any time with Zoom's free online video conferencing options. Features include screen sharing, scheduled or instant meeting times, and private or group chat. Up to 40 minutes of group meeting time and unlimited 1:1 meeting time are included with the free meeting plans. Sign up using your email or social network account to begin hosting a meeting. The step-by-step instructions make it easy to start video conferencing at your convenience.
tag(s): chat (41), communication (126), DAT device agnostic tool (134), parent conferences (21)
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Use Zoom to set up virtual parent/teacher conferences with participants located anywhere in the world. This is especially useful when multiple teachers are involved or when parents may not reside in the exact location. Share your screen as needed to provide information on assessments and student work. Connect whole classrooms across the country for book clubs. Collaborate with experts, such as authors and scientists, in classrooms with children. Create connected learning experiences with other students, especially those in older grades. Connect world language classes to classes in different countries. Teachers can hold "office hours" for homework help and to ask questions. Create a collaborative space for homework help before or after school or on snow days. Students can meet whenever help is needed, or teachers can create a session that can be accessed on any device easily by those who need it. Consider using a tool such as Remind, reviewed here, to alert parents and students when your sessions are open. Use Zoom for group work - no more excuses about not being able to meet for cooperative learning projects! Buildings can collaborate and share professional development with others in their own district and beyond!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zoom In! - Education Development Center
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5 to 12
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Zoom In! is a set of digital tools that support social studies teachers in aligning teaching with the Common Core Literacy Standards. In each lesson, students solve a historical problem...more
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Zoom In! is a set of digital tools that support social studies teachers in aligning teaching with the Common Core Literacy Standards. In each lesson, students solve a historical problem by analyzing and collecting evidence, organizing research, and creating a rough draft communicating the solution. Create your teacher account to begin. Browse through 10 lessons with topics as diverse as propaganda and Paul Revere, Labor on the World War II Homefront, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, and music in the Vietnam War. Create a class within each lesson to receive a class code for student access.
tag(s): american revolution (99), civil war (148), constitution (108), immigrants (50), immigration (86), lincoln (65), slavery (82), vietnam (41), westward expansion (42), world war 2 (169)
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Take advantage of these free lesson plans for use in teaching social studies aligned to Common Core Standards. Even if you cannot use whole lessons, browse through to find resources to add to your current lessons. Create classes and assign different lessons to different groups of students based on ability and interest. After completing a unit, have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools, reviewed here.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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Zotero - Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
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8 to 12
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Use this "easy-to-use" tool to help collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research sources. Under the Documentation tab, find many quicks start and other guides to help you understand...more
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Use this "easy-to-use" tool to help collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research sources. Under the Documentation tab, find many quicks start and other guides to help you understand all Zotero can do. Downloadable versions run as a stand-alone or as a Chrome Connector. Once installed, the tool saves information several ways: through a click at the bottom of the web browser, by a click on favorite/bookmark bar, or manually. Files already on computers can be included with files saved from the internet. Items can be grouped and sorted according to individual needs. Information saved through Zotero can be accessed on any computer that has the computer/browser extension downloaded. The site includes a helpful quick start video guide explaining features included with the program.
tag(s): citations (32), curation (27), evaluating sources (58), note taking (36), primary sources (177), Research (92)
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Depending on school computer settings, you may need to have tech support install the program for you. Use Zotero to collect and organize classroom resources. Share with older students as a resource for gathering and citing information. Demonstrate how to use the site on an interactive whiteboard or with a projector, including showing the quick-start video. One of the advanced features of the site is the creation of groups. Share this with students who may be capable of using the feature to collaborate with others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ZoteroBib - Corporation for Digital Scholarship
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6 to 12
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Do you need help with creating bibliographies? ZoteroBib is here to help. Add any URL, book, title, or another identifier to begin. Choose from over 9,300 different style options to...more
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Do you need help with creating bibliographies? ZoteroBib is here to help. Add any URL, book, title, or another identifier to begin. Choose from over 9,300 different style options to create a citation. ZoteroBib also includes an option for manual entry of information. When complete, copy the citation to your device's clipboard or generate a link to view online.
tag(s): citations (32), expository writing (25), persuasive writing (46), plagiarism (33), Research (92), study aid (175)
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Include this tool on all classroom computers and as a link on your class website for student use. This bibliography tool help students properly format their Works Cited pages. Use this tool to help keep your students (or even yourself) organized! Make sure you teach plagiarism lessons about paraphrasing and proper citation of sources, so students use this tool properly! As teachers, we need to be aware that such a tool exists, since savvy students may compile a "paper" without a logical thought pattern simply by clicking to include suggestions from ZoteroBib or other citation creation tools. The best strategy for such a tool is to show students how to use it well. Take the drudgery out of writing formal papers by emphasizing thinking over mechanics. Whether teaching beginning research or seniors in high school, introduce them to ZoteroBib. For younger students, seeing all the formatting and citing done correctly, from the beginning, makes sense whether it is the body of the writing or the bibliography. With either age group, give lessons about each part of a paper or letter. Demonstrate on an interactive whiteboard and think out loud as a group to pull together ideas, sources, quotes, and more to support an argument and build a paper. You can use it, too, when you write for your graduate program. Since you can choose from MLA, APA, or Chicago Style, you do not have to worry about memorizing punctuation and double checking the format.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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