Common Craft Explains Primary and Secondary Sources

Understanding the differences between primary and secondary sources can be a challenge to some middle school and high school students. Under...

How to Use Google Slides to Organize Research

Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating ...

Scrible Releases a New Chrome Extension to Help Students Organize Their Research

Scrible  is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Recently, Scrible released a...

SummarizeThis Quickly Summarizes Long Passages of Text

SummarizeThis is a free tool that summarizes the main point(s) of long articles that you find on the web. To use SummarizeThis you just cop...

Search for Data Tables Within Google Documents and Slides

Earlier today on Google+ Google announced the addition of data tables to the research menu in Google Documents. You can search for data tab...

A Short Guide to Using Google Books for Research

Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students...

Are Your Students Standing On The Shoulders of Giants?

If you visit Google Scholar right now you will see the tagline, "stand on the shoulders of giants." This is something that I menti...

Readcube Offers Research Organization Tutorials

Readcube is a desktop tool (available for Mac and Windows) that aims to help students and teachers search and organize their research more ...

ReadCube - A Desktop Tool for Organizing Research

ReadCube is a desktop application for Windows and Mac that aims to help you organize your research literature better. I initially tried it ...

Discover Books to Match the Websites You Read

Book Discovery is a browser extension that helps you find books that are related to the content of the websites you read. With Book Discove...

Seven Tools for Organizing Web Research

Today at 3:15 pm (EST) and again at 7:15 pm (EST) MLTI trainer Jim Wells and I are hosting a webinar about the online research process . Jim...

Free Webinar - Structuring a Research Project

Tomorrow, February 11, at 3:15 pm and again at 7:15 pm (EST) I will co-hosting a webinar with MLTI trainer Jim Wells. The title of the webi...

Three Places to Find Country Profiles

Comparing countries is a common assignment given to elementary, middle, and high school social studies students. Obviously, the required dep...

Where Does Thanksgiving Grow?

Where Does Thanksgiving Grow? is a neat data set produced by Linda Zellmer at Western Illinois State University. The data sets contain info...