UPDATED (Dec 3): The downtime time has been moved to 9PM PST, 11PM CST tonight.

We will be doing another server maintenance duty this Saturday, December 3rd at 8PM PST, 10PM CST. We expect the downtime to last approximately 20 minutes. Please plan accordingly. Thank you!

12/3/11 9:20PM PST Update: Server maintenance is complete!

Join a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar as Tasha Bergson-Michelson brings Debbie Abilock and Jole Seroff, and Steve Hargadon together for a conversation on “search literacy” in education: what sources should students be using, how do we help them evaluate what they find, and what is the school’s role in teaching search literacy and skills? Come with your ideas and questions. Details at http://www.stevehargadon.com/2011/11/live-interview-thursday-panel-on-search.html

New online tutorials are available in our Tutorials area.

• Google Docs integration – For students: How to set up Google Docs for your paper.
• Guide for administrators: Google Apps for Education setup - How to use your school’s Google accounts in NoodleTools.
• Guide for administrators: User authentication – Explains how three different user authentication options work in NoodleTools.
• Sharing projects with your teacher – For students: How to share a project with a teacher.

All above tutorials are narrated and close captioned.

We are working on a new series of online tutorials for teachers on how to create a drop box, view shared projects, viewing students’ citataions, notecards, and outline; and providing feedback on students’ citations and notecards. Stay tuned!

We are doing server maintenance on Saturday, November 5th at 9 pm PST. It will require downtime of 10-15 minutes. If you are logged in at the time, you will be automatically logged out. Please plan accordingly. Thank you!

11/5/11 9:40 PM PST Update: Server maintenance is complete!

Here’s another note from a librarian who is using a web service to promote NoodleTools to K-12 students. Margaret Mary Ryan, a librarian at Saint Ephrem School in Bensalem, PA, wrote: 

I enjoy hearing how other teachers are using Noodle Tools…Over the summer I attended a workshop on Symbaloo and I have “Webmix” or group of web sites that I want the students to use for a particular project. It displays them as a group of tiles, almost like a Scrabble board. One tile provides a link to the google doc where I give them their instructions for the project. This webmix can be accessed from any computer once the student is given a link to it. I always include a NoodleTools tile so that the students have easy access to their accounts. This has proved to be working well for my sixth through eighth grade students. All that they need to complete a project is in one place and they can get to it easily.

Note: Symbaloo has a NoodleTools tile. Use their search function to locate the tile.