Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 31, Research and Citation, Part 1
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Technology Information: Research and Citation - Purdue OWL and Zotero
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- [00:00:00.000]Coming up on Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
- [00:00:02.298]research and citation apps.
- [00:00:03.950](techno music)
- [00:00:17.691]Hi, my name is Guy Trainin.
- [00:00:19.168]And I'm Zoe Falls.
- [00:00:20.186]And this is Mobile Learning in the Classroom,
- [00:00:21.970]and today we're talking about research and citations,
- [00:00:25.815]and this is an area where digital resources
- [00:00:29.404]can really help connect, collect,
- [00:00:31.997]and really preserve everything
- [00:00:34.961]that you read and use while you're doing research.
- [00:00:38.717]So let's start.
- [00:00:39.962]Okay, so one of my favorite things
- [00:00:42.236]when it finally came out
- [00:00:43.687]is the OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab,
- [00:00:46.545]and for me, it was a lot easier
- [00:00:49.078]than having to go to the store and buy the new book
- [00:00:52.072]every time MLA or APA changed their mind
- [00:00:54.937]about where to put a comma,
- [00:00:56.533]and with OWL, you can just pull it up online
- [00:01:00.449]through any web browser on your phone, on your tablet,
- [00:01:03.623]on your computer, and it you can go through
- [00:01:06.049]and it'll tell you everything you need to know
- [00:01:08.404]about how to format your references
- [00:01:10.215]that you're using for a paper,
- [00:01:12.212]and it'll give you examples,
- [00:01:14.545]and you can go through and it'll show you basic rules,
- [00:01:18.589]and then it'll give you examples as you go through.
- [00:01:20.894]My favorite is the sample paper that it gives you.
- [00:01:23.938]So you can go through
- [00:01:24.889]and you can see exactly how a paper is supposed to look,
- [00:01:28.869]and it'll give you little text boxes
- [00:01:30.468]with details about certain formatting things,
- [00:01:33.219]the running head, the title page,
- [00:01:35.458]how to make the numbering work,
- [00:01:38.504]what to do with images and how to add in tables and figures.
- [00:01:42.793]So basically everything you could wanna know
- [00:01:44.798]all in a handy dandy little website.
- [00:01:47.841]And--
- [00:01:48.674]And at the college level, obviously I just send the link,
- [00:01:54.569]but this also allows everybody to use the same guidelines,
- [00:01:58.423]at the especially high school level
- [00:02:00.616]when you're already writing more serious research
- [00:02:02.856]and you want to make that transition to college,
- [00:02:05.498]this is a great way, because the OWL is available for free,
- [00:02:08.860]anybody can go on that website and use it,
- [00:02:10.990]so you don't need to buy the book that we use to do
- [00:02:14.226]with APA or MLA, you can just do it
- [00:02:16.682]based on what's available online.
- [00:02:18.639]Exactly, and it'll show you other resources,
- [00:02:23.307]and what this is really nice for
- [00:02:25.797]is with technology expanding the way it has,
- [00:02:30.453]there are so many other ways of getting information
- [00:02:32.928]that aren't just from an article, or from a book,
- [00:02:37.093]and this'll show you different ways,
- [00:02:39.447]so a newspaper article, electronic books, Kindle books,
- [00:02:43.093]so things that are gonna be more relevant
- [00:02:44.747]to where these learners are at now
- [00:02:47.495]versus some of the more traditional old school version
- [00:02:50.084]of, you know, going to the encyclopedia
- [00:02:52.446]and pulling out the correct addition.
- [00:02:55.768]And the big changes with electronic resources
- [00:03:00.169]is the fact that they don't always stay there.
- [00:03:02.929]So blogs, even newspaper articles show up
- [00:03:06.718]and then are archived somewhere else,
- [00:03:08.950]so being able to track those.
- [00:03:10.673]It's about, especially when you talk about
- [00:03:13.888]reading in different ways
- [00:03:16.710]is page numbers don't make sense like they use to,
- [00:03:19.856]because if you change the font size,
- [00:03:21.749]then at least on my Kindle it changes the pagination.
- [00:03:24.711]So giving a page number is less useful than it used to be,
- [00:03:28.494]and the idea is that we can actually have
- [00:03:32.817]standard ways to refer to those,
- [00:03:34.747]so people can look them up if they're so interested.
- [00:03:40.893]All right, so the next one would be,
- [00:03:42.600]and that's what you use a lot,
- [00:03:44.516]and you talked to me about Zotero.
- [00:03:45.935]I've never used Zotero, so I'm excited about this one.
- [00:03:48.290]So Zotero is for me how I manage all of my references,
- [00:03:52.421]and this is an easy way that when I get that syllabus
- [00:03:56.483]at the beginning of the semester,
- [00:03:57.548]and there's the list of all of this stuff,
- [00:03:59.795]I just put 'em all into Zotero so that I have them
- [00:04:02.270]for reference later.
- [00:04:03.777]If I'm working on a specific paper,
- [00:04:05.702]I can create a folder
- [00:04:07.634]and I can store all of the sources
- [00:04:08.798]that I may or may not even end up using,
- [00:04:10.838]but at least they're there and I can find them.
- [00:04:13.356]Now my favorite part about Zotero
- [00:04:16.198]is up here in the corner of my web browser
- [00:04:20.655]is this little button.
- [00:04:23.046]And so if I'm in Google Books,
- [00:04:28.450]there we go,
- [00:04:29.608]oh, come on, books.google.com.
- [00:04:35.163]And I found a book that I,
- [00:04:38.581]I'm just gonna find any book.
- [00:04:40.790]And let's say this is a book
- [00:04:43.758]that I'm going to want to keep.
- [00:04:46.673]The icon changes and it tells me,
- [00:04:48.275]"Hey, this is a book."
- [00:04:49.761]If I click on the icon,
- [00:04:51.101]it'll automatically save it into my Zotero.
- [00:04:58.840]And then, I can just keep doing what I'm doing
- [00:05:01.084]knowing that it's there.
- [00:05:02.583]And when I'm ready to go and export it into my document,
- [00:05:07.440]I can pull up an individual and tell it,
- [00:05:14.192]"I just want to export this item,"
- [00:05:16.259]and I can do the full citation
- [00:05:18.362]or I can just do the end text citation.
- [00:05:20.680]You can select an entire folder,
- [00:05:22.069]so if you have a folder of ones
- [00:05:23.008]that you're gonna use in your paper,
- [00:05:24.824]you can copy it to your clipboard and then just past it in,
- [00:05:27.539]so you don't have to worry about too many plugins
- [00:05:30.517]bogging down whatever source you're using,
- [00:05:33.266]so if I'm in Google Docs instead of Word,
- [00:05:35.896]I don't have to worry about it, I can just Copy + Paste.
- [00:05:39.247]And does it do chapters
- [00:05:41.391]if there are individual chapters
- [00:05:42.965]written by somebody else or edited books?
- [00:05:45.778]Yes, and you can always go in
- [00:05:47.436]and edit the individual things,
- [00:05:50.071]so sometimes depending on how the data
- [00:05:52.486]is inputted into the web source you're getting it from,
- [00:05:57.176]you might have to go in and tweak it a little bit
- [00:05:59.239]before you pull it out,
- [00:06:00.858]but it will do things if you're on a specific chapter.
- [00:06:04.126]You can tell it, "I want just this chapter."
- [00:06:06.151]So if you're a Google Scholar
- [00:06:07.540]and you're looking at sources,
- [00:06:08.859]you can select the articles that you want from that page,
- [00:06:11.882]and it will dump all of them into Zotero for you.
- [00:06:14.695]So when I'm getting ready to do a lit review
- [00:06:16.395]or starting to look at a bigger research project,
- [00:06:18.835]and I'm just kind of curating all the sources,
- [00:06:21.814]I can pull the ones that look interesting,
- [00:06:23.520]keep track of what I have,
- [00:06:25.000]and then go back to them later.
- [00:06:26.650]So if I go in here and I go to My Groups,
- [00:06:31.552]I have different groups
- [00:06:32.808]for different projects that I'm working on.
- [00:06:36.162]And again, you can invite members,
- [00:06:38.955]and you can make the groups public or private.
- [00:06:42.215]So if you're working on something
- [00:06:43.293]that you need to keep pretty contained,
- [00:06:45.762]or if you're working on something that's just open research
- [00:06:49.873]and knowledge that you wanna share with the world,
- [00:06:51.263]you can make it so that it's an open group
- [00:06:53.345]and people can access.
- [00:06:55.361]So you've got two aspects.
- [00:06:56.744]One is, "Who gets to see it?"
- [00:06:58.064]and the other one, "Who gets to contribute?"
- [00:06:59.688]Correct.
- [00:07:00.521]So closed membership means
- [00:07:01.372]only those who are members can contribute,
- [00:07:04.777]and public, in this case, means other people can view it,
- [00:07:08.362]but they can't really add to it.
- [00:07:10.544]Correct, so they can see the sources that you've added,
- [00:07:13.270]and you can add people to it through their email address.
- [00:07:18.855]And then when you're in...
- [00:07:19.864]And so you don't necessarily
- [00:07:20.858]have to use the web browser all the time,
- [00:07:22.948]so there is also a desktop application,
- [00:07:26.544]and it's the same thing, so down in the Group Libraries
- [00:07:29.984]you can access all of that information there, too.
- [00:07:32.900]And it'll tell you who,
- [00:07:34.762]so if you have multiple people in a group,
- [00:07:36.430]it'll tell you who imported what source,
- [00:07:38.870]so if there's an issue with it or you have a question,
- [00:07:41.083]you know which member of your group
- [00:07:43.031]contributed that resource to the collective.
- [00:07:46.223]And so, does it cost anything?
- [00:07:48.480]No, it is free.
- [00:07:49.753]That's fantastic.
- [00:07:50.646]It is free, and it'll work on any platform.
- [00:07:55.463]It'll work in any browser.
- [00:07:57.582]So there's the website itself,
- [00:08:00.322]there's the application, and then there's the plugin,
- [00:08:02.871]and they work seamlessly together,
- [00:08:05.313]because you login, and then that login works on any device.
- [00:08:09.674]So if I'm logged in on my laptop,
- [00:08:11.431]I can pull it up on my desktop, as well.'
- [00:08:13.761]There isn't at this point a mobile app for Zotero,
- [00:08:20.070]so that is one thing to keep in mind.
- [00:08:22.954]But it will work inside Chrome, so Chromebooks would work,
- [00:08:25.847]and anything that runs Chrome
- [00:08:27.478]will probably be able to handle it.
- [00:08:29.174]Correct, the plugin doesn't work the same way,
- [00:08:34.504]or the last time I looked it wasn't working on a mobile app,
- [00:08:38.376]or a mobile device, but other than that,
- [00:08:40.889]you can still access all of it and add things to it.
- [00:08:43.987]All right, so today, we talked about quite a few options
- [00:08:47.116]to do research and citations, and we'll see you next time
- [00:08:50.377]on Mobile Learning in the Classroom.
- [00:08:52.214]Bye.
- [00:08:53.047](upbeat music)
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