Tech Edge, Mobile Learning In The Classroom - Episode 32, Research and Citation, Part 2

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Technology Information: Research and Citation - Citation Machine, Google Docs, Mendeley and Cite This For Me

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[00:00:00.153]Coming up on Mobile Learning In The Classroom,
[00:00:02.176]Research and Citation Apps.
[00:00:04.636](upbeat music)
[00:00:17.780]Hi, my name is Guy Trainin.
[00:00:18.911]And I'm Zoe Falls.
[00:00:19.920]And this Mobile Learning In The Classroom
[00:00:21.904]and today we're talking about Research and Citations
[00:00:25.649]and this is an area where digital resources
[00:00:29.131]can really help connect, collect
[00:00:31.745]and really preserve everything that you read and use
[00:00:37.348]while you're doing research.
[00:00:38.650]I want to share two things that I find useful.
[00:00:43.184]One is Citation Machine and Citation Machine
[00:00:45.608]has adds so that's one thing if you're working especially
[00:00:48.563]in a K12 environment,
[00:00:49.995]know that there are ads in this.
[00:00:51.566]You can pay and then get it for free,
[00:00:53.405]so that's great and you may want to do that.
[00:00:56.636]There is a school version that probably comes
[00:00:59.588]with a license and then you don't see the ads,
[00:01:04.105]but you just choose your style.
[00:01:06.414]So let me just do this
[00:01:08.313]a little bit bigger and I choose my style.
[00:01:10.388]I usually write in APA, so I'll choose.
[00:01:12.965]And now you can find a Book or a Magazine,
[00:01:16.298]Newspaper, Website, Journal, Film even
[00:01:18.973]or something else that you want to define
[00:01:21.102]and then you can search it, which is fantastic.
[00:01:23.522]So if we look for a book by title, for example,
[00:01:27.258]the manufactured crisis.
[00:01:32.145]One of my favorite books.
[00:01:34.402]So you do a search and now it gives you the options.
[00:01:37.880]Things that come up with that.
[00:01:39.945]And now you can select the ones you meant.
[00:01:42.875]In this case, this one and it gives you everything about it
[00:01:47.779]and now you can create a citation.
[00:01:50.243]So the easy thing is, if you don't want to make any changes,
[00:01:52.743]if I don't want to select this specific chapter or page,
[00:01:55.792]this is it, here it is.
[00:01:57.425]I can copy and paste it.
[00:01:59.967]So you click here, copy and paste
[00:02:02.455]and put it inside your document.
[00:02:04.266]It's that easy.
[00:02:05.607]And what I love about it is,
[00:02:07.350]and I think Zotero does the same thing to a degree,
[00:02:09.788]and that is you can do a search inside that.
[00:02:12.335]So you don't have to go somewhere else, do the search,
[00:02:15.023]bring it in.
[00:02:16.076]If you have a fraction of the name or the full name
[00:02:18.892]or the author, you can bring it in, here it is
[00:02:21.977]and it seems to work really, really fast.
[00:02:24.749]Again, it sits in your browser,
[00:02:26.743]which means any device can use it
[00:02:30.944]and I've tried it on my iPad,
[00:02:32.771]I've tried it on my computer, on Chromebook.
[00:02:36.017]It works on all of them, so it's a fantastic thing.
[00:02:38.186]The other thing that I like about it
[00:02:40.557]is that this version, you don't need to have a log in.
[00:02:44.072]So at least at K12 we worry about logging in
[00:02:46.676]and having too many and remembering passwords and all that,
[00:02:49.594]you don't need all that.
[00:02:50.781]You can create one if you want to start saving them
[00:02:53.518]and all that, but if you just want to do a search
[00:02:55.537]and copy and paste, that's a simple and easy one.
[00:02:59.297]The second one and I mention this mostly
[00:03:01.376]because a lot of schools are using Chrome
[00:03:04.270]and Google Drive and all that and that is
[00:03:07.110]that you can actually bring the research
[00:03:12.734]into your Google Doc just by going to Tools
[00:03:16.664]and clicking on Research,
[00:03:18.289]it turns that Research on
[00:03:20.124]and then you can search for something like,
[00:03:22.387]I don't know.
[00:03:23.862]And it automatically tries to find words in your text
[00:03:26.738]that you may be interested in
[00:03:29.820]and now you can do a few things and one is
[00:03:34.631]you can Insert Link and the other one is you can Cite,
[00:03:37.509]so a citation would add it at the end
[00:03:40.795]or at the bottom of a page and Inserting Link
[00:03:43.242]would obviously happen inside the text.
[00:03:45.180]So it's very quick and easy
[00:03:46.482]and if you've got students already working in Google Drive,
[00:03:49.463]already working in Docs,
[00:03:50.907]this is really easy and the beauty of it again
[00:03:53.932]is you don't need an extra log in,
[00:03:55.961]it does get saved and you're working inside your documents,
[00:03:59.770]so you're not running somewhere else,
[00:04:01.055]searching, copying and pasting and all that.
[00:04:03.255]So there's something very sleek
[00:04:04.455]about having it integrated.
[00:04:07.114]Obviously it's a Google search,
[00:04:08.461]although you can do search of other things
[00:04:10.263]including Google Scholar, which is really useful.
[00:04:13.252]I love Google Scholar.
[00:04:14.447]Yes and Images and other things.
[00:04:17.410]So if you want to search other things you can do that
[00:04:20.980]also under that Research tab.
[00:04:22.863]So when it does personal results,
[00:04:23.975]is it searching your Google Drive?
[00:04:25.541]Your documents, yes.
[00:04:26.933]Okay, so you can link to files
[00:04:28.110]you've already created.
[00:04:30.026]Yes, which is really interesting.
[00:04:32.421]But it can also, you see their web results
[00:04:34.586]that you can go to.
[00:04:35.791]You can insert that and then cite those.
[00:04:38.566]So you can cite things you already have
[00:04:40.451]and cite things that are out there, for example.
[00:04:44.281]You can see this one is a footnote
[00:04:46.266]or you're inserting the actual citation.
[00:04:48.776]So that's inside Google Drive
[00:04:50.857]and that's really, really useful.
[00:04:53.419]And you wanted to talk about two more.
[00:04:56.784]Yeah, so Mendeley is another app
[00:05:01.376]that's similar to Zotero.
[00:05:06.047]And Mendeley does actually have a mobile app
[00:05:08.293]that I like the best is it's PDF viewer
[00:05:13.013]and the way that you can look at the PDFs that you've stored
[00:05:15.807]in your citation and share those.
[00:05:19.862]It doesn't have some of the same features as Zotero
[00:05:22.379]such as the built in way to automatically save things
[00:05:26.213]by just clicking a button.
[00:05:28.322]So it's not gonna be quite as seamless
[00:05:30.531]and it takes a little bit more time to use,
[00:05:37.504]but again, it depends on what your focus
[00:05:39.683]for using it is.
[00:05:40.791]So if you really need something
[00:05:41.882]where all of your sources are there
[00:05:43.621]and you can edit the PDFs and highlight
[00:05:46.022]and change notes and things like that,
[00:05:48.089]Mendeley might be a better option
[00:05:50.627]and their mobile version, the viewer for the PDF
[00:05:53.951]is also really nice and very dynamic.
[00:05:57.215]So my Library Mendeley is much shorter or much smaller
[00:05:59.622]'cause I don't use it as much,
[00:06:01.695]but you can do the same thing.
[00:06:02.747]You can have a group.
[00:06:03.834]You can share sources.
[00:06:10.449]I have a friend that uses it
[00:06:11.866]so this is how we share information
[00:06:14.053]'cause she prefers Mendeley to Zotero
[00:06:17.677]and so, again, the same thing,
[00:06:21.351]you can share things with other people.
[00:06:23.274]You can edit the PDFs.
[00:06:24.660]It'll save it, so if you're trying to figure out
[00:06:28.727]how to formulate something
[00:06:30.245]and you wanna highlight a certain source,
[00:06:32.561]a certain sentence in a source to a colleague,
[00:06:35.077]Mendeley again might serve you a little better
[00:06:37.174]than Zotero, but it does the same thing.
[00:06:40.425]You can add a document, add a folder,
[00:06:43.368]manual entry.
[00:06:44.697]Okay, so similar,
[00:06:46.262]not as seamless in that when you're working on your own
[00:06:49.897]has the advantage of being able to cite specific sentences
[00:06:53.470]and work with PDFs a little bit more agilely.
[00:06:57.615]Exactly and I do know grad students that use both.
[00:07:01.530]Oh wow.
[00:07:03.390]And they will talk to each other.
[00:07:06.370]It's not a full sync,
[00:07:07.870]but Mendeley and Zotero will talk to each other.
[00:07:12.500]It's getting a little bit complicated for me.
[00:07:14.345]I really like one place where I go to
[00:07:17.460]and everything's there and if it's more than that
[00:07:19.510]it becomes, and I think for students
[00:07:21.789]who are learning how to do this,
[00:07:23.478]it'll be much more useful to have
[00:07:25.739]one place where they go and they enter everything
[00:07:28.116]and then if they have further needs,
[00:07:30.211]maybe go to a second one that compliments it.
[00:07:33.917]At the graduate student level,
[00:07:35.305]obviously that would work,
[00:07:37.242]but if you're in eleventh grade
[00:07:39.740]and doing a social studies paper.
[00:07:41.781]Right and I think Zotero is a much easier gateway
[00:07:46.316]citation manager, especially to get those skills
[00:07:48.212]while they are still in high school
[00:07:49.519]to make it a little easier when they get to college,
[00:07:52.946]play around with them, figure out which one they like.
[00:07:57.105]All right.
[00:07:58.622]And last.
[00:08:03.134]We're looking at Cite This For me.
[00:08:05.743]So Cite This For Me
[00:08:07.547]is very similar to Citation Machine in that
[00:08:11.755]you can type in something.
[00:08:15.564]So if I'm looking for educational technology,
[00:08:23.883]again, it'll pull up search results
[00:08:25.627]of educational technology.
[00:08:28.345]The app version, so if you have books,
[00:08:30.843]you can scan the barcode and it'll populate
[00:08:33.346]and that always makes me really happy
[00:08:35.816]because it saves me so much time
[00:08:37.930]of even having to remember what it is
[00:08:40.810]or where I found it or what the name of it was.
[00:08:44.166]I can just scan the book and have it in there
[00:08:46.433]and be good to go.
[00:08:49.210]Which is very elegant.
[00:08:51.227]The mobile app, you can do the same thing.
[00:08:52.839]So you can type in what you know of it
[00:08:55.041]and do a search and same thing that we've seen
[00:08:57.654]with all of the others.
[00:08:58.670]You can copy the citation.
[00:09:00.285]You can copy an in-text citation.
[00:09:02.418]And I think what I like best about the copy, paste,
[00:09:04.505]is you don't have to worry about if the plugin is working,
[00:09:07.040]if it's broken, if you have the right version
[00:09:09.818]of the right program, 'cause copy, paste
[00:09:12.059]pretty much works everywhere.
[00:09:13.948]So those are the features that I like about
[00:09:17.290]Cite This For Me.
[00:09:18.719]All right, so today we talked about
[00:09:20.512]quite a few options to do research and citations
[00:09:23.880]and we'll see you next time on
[00:09:25.111]Mobile Learning In The Classroom.
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