http://www.noodletools.com/blog The NoodleTools Weblog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:28:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Debbie spoke in two AASL/ISS sponsored sessions at the ALA Annual Conference last week, one on visual information literacy and another about ethics in a Web 2.0 environment. Thanks for attending, and to those of you who came by to say hi! Visual Literacy Ain't Just Watching Ads: Decoders, fluent readers ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/88 NoodleTools' Online Opportunities for Young Writers Web page was just selected as one of Writer's Digest's 10th annual 101 Best Sites for Writers in 2008. Used by teachers of English, history, and science as well as elementary school teachers in collaboration with the school librarian, this site describes authentic opportunities ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/86 The new (3rd) edition of the MLA Style Manual is now available. We're really happy to see that they've simplified the citation of Web-based content (in particular removing the distinction between different "types" of databases that has confused students and teachers alike). We had several discussions with the MLA editorial ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/84 As we are every summer, we're hard at work on some exciting new projects and NoodleBib features for next Fall (look for upcoming announcements on this blog). Meanwhile, we continue to listen to your suggestions for how to improve the existing tools. Although they aren't always announced, we usually do ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/83 Two minor (but potentially very helpful) changes to report: For students who are registering a new personal folder under a school/district subscription, Personal IDs are no longer required to be unique to the entire NoodleTools community. They need only be unique to that subscriber (the school/district). This should make it a ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/82 It has come to our attention that a Mozilla bug is causing a problem with dropdown menus for Mac users running Leopard OSX and FireFox version 2.0.0.9. In NoodleBib, this effects the dropdown menu that you use to select a citation type -- clicking the dropdown arrow does not open ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/78 Just for fun, we thought it might be interesting to see the geographical distribution of the current NoodleTools subscribers in the United States. Each pin in this map represents one NoodleTools account (where an "account" could be a single school/university, a district, or even an entire regional consortium in some ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/74 Debbie will be giving the keynote at this year's Maryland Assoc. of School Librarians Conference, held on October 18th and 19th in Ocean City, MD. http://www.mdedmedia.org/MASLConferenceFlyer2007Color.pdf Debbie will also be presenting in a conference session: Beyond Cut and Paste (Session 2, conference room 5/6). In addition, Anita Anderson, media specialist at Thomas ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/71 While we've done a great job keeping the NoodleTools servers humming along even as Web traffic has increased exponentially over the past several years, sometimes something unexpected comes along that requires us to take the site offline. While infrequent, we know that this type of unexpected downtime can be frustrating ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/72 We've updated the user's guide with new screenshots and information about the new features (described in the previous blog post). You can view the new version here: http://www.noodletools.com/tools/noodlebib_users_guide.pdf The knowledge base will be updated next, hopefully before Monday. By the way, the features that we had hoped to squeeze in before the ... http://www.noodletools.com/blog/archives/70