Pre-IB II World History - DRAFT
Renaissance "Baseball Card" Research
Using the Databases and eBooks from Home? View the Digital Resources Logins and Passwords page. You'll need to sign in with your @apps to view. Remember, databases will create correct citations for you that you can copy/paste into Noodletools. Woo-hoo!!!
ABC-Clio World History Database - A history database featuring shorter, hyperlinked encyclopedia articles, written by ABC-Clio staff. In addition to these articles, you'll find media and primary sources.
World History in Context Database - A comprehensive database that gathers published information from reference books, magazines and news publications, academic journals and includes primary sources.
Print Books:
Use the library catalog to locate print (and Digital) books on your research topic., but we've pulled A FEW EXCELLENT AND RELEVANT PRINT BOOKS FOR THIS RESEARCH! You can make copies or take photos of the pages in books so you can take them with you to write your notes. **Use the ISBN "Quick Add" in Noodletools to help you cite your print books!
Digital Reference Books - Search our GVRL collection of Reference (Encyclopedia-ish) books for shorter entries on events and biographies. These books provide your citations for you as well! One of particular interest is Arts and Humanities Through the Eras: The Renaissance.
Below are just a few ideas of the types of sources you can find online. Steer clear of blogs (weebly and others) and prezis! Go Scholarly! Look for webpages from libraries, museums, and universities. For example, adding site:edu to your search terms will provide only university sites in your results list. Go to the homepage of the site (delete the gray part of the URL) to see who is publishing it and thus responsible for its accuracy. More like the ones below and less like this. Example of a variety of weak sources on Botticelli (click on Botticelli).
The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini: Media from the Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Leonardo Da Vinci from the History Channnel
Sandro Botticelli from the National Gallery of the U.K.
Citations and Noodletools
Two main understandings for citing your sources: WHAT is it and HOW did YOU access it?
**Databases will export the correct MLA9 citation RIGHT INTO YOUR NOODLETOOLS! "Wait, what? That's awesome!" Remember to write in your source on your notes page to keep your notes and sources together. Refer to your assignment directions for pre-search focus areas.
There is a new 2021 main interface to Noodletools. Here is a one-minute quick video overview from NT, including how to submit your project to a drop box.
** New for 2022! Screencast: How to Share your NT with the Library
More Sharing Directions: Share your WCs with the Library within the Noodletools App. Click in the blank column below "Sharing" when viewing your list of projects. Click Share with a Teacher's Inbox and then the "+Share." Start typing in your teacher's name, select the correct inbox and click "Done." Once you share your works cited, the Library will always see your "live" version. They'll make comments on them and you'll have a few days to fix anything before grading.
**Example: How to format your internal citations - Here!!