These tools can help teachers guide and monitor student research assignments
Symbaloo is a great way to organize online resources for your students. It create tiles for individual resources and organizes them in a very student-friendly manner. Each tile links to a resource that will be opened in a new tab. This is a great tool for introductory research projects.
LiveBinders are tools that organize information for teachers and students online. These can be pages of online resources or links to library catalog records. They can be organized in tabs, and pages within tabs, just like a physical binder. These are tools that you can build yourself, or can be created for you by the librarians. This is a tool that can be used to limit the search area for specific students and help guide student to specific resources.
Text 2 Mind Map is just as it sounds: students (or teachers) enter text, and this tool organizes the information into a mindmap/diagram. This is a tool that might help students organize their information and see it more visually.
Diigo is a great tool that allows students to add notes and highlights to online content and to save the notes and highlights as well as web pages to Diigo to keep all research together. It also allows students to highlight and annotate PDF documents. Students can keep track of all their research in one place. Teachers can have students join their class and thereby monitor students' research progress in an easy, paperless way. This is an essential tool for doing Web research projects!
EasyBib is a quick and easy tool that creates MLA citations for students based on information that students input. It allows students to paste a URL or input information about a book or article, and guides them through the process, then creates a correctly formatted citation for them. Another invaluable tool for student research assignments.