NoodleTools

Fall 2015 Updates

Your instructional partner

Thinking space

Question, brainstorm

hypothesize, pre-search, plan

Organizing space

Gather evidence, collect data,

comprehend, analyze, evaluate, record &

cite, organize

Composing space

Synthesize, create, draft, revise, peer-review, conference,

edit, publish

Self-assessment space

Review,, reflect, apply

Logical, efficient workflows

Ongoing reflection and self-assessment

Re-envisioned teacher student communication

Enhanced notes & outlining

Google integration (SSO, citations, notes, outline, paper)

2015 Redesign

A focus on teaching & learning

Device-responsive design

What’s new…

A short tour of some of the impactful changes.

Student’s view

Student’s Projects screen

Student’s Projects screen (archived projects shown)

Teacher’s view

Using Project Inboxes to view students’ shared projects

Teacher’s Projects screen: List of project inboxes

Teacher’s Projects screen: Projects shared with selected inbox

Teacher’s view of Dashboard

Teacher’s view of Dashboard (with inbox navigator open)

Student’s view

Project components from a student’s perspective.

Student’s view of project Dashboard

Student’s Dashboard (sharing with a project inbox)

Student’s Sources screen (previously “Bibliography”)

Student’s Notecards screen

Student’s Notecards screen

Student’s Notecards screen

Student’s Notecards screen (outline expanded)

Editing a notecard

Creating a new notecard

Student’s Notecards screen (Tabletop view)

Student’s Notecards screen (Detail view)

Student’s Notecards screen (Detail view)

Teacher’s view

Commenting on student work.

Teacher’s view of notecards using Detail view

Teacher adding feedback from Notecards Detail view

Student’s view

Viewing and responding to teacher feedback.

Student’s account, showing unread feedback

Student’s project with 3 unread comments, open comments panel

Student’s view of the teacher’s notecard comment

Student’s view of comment in context (notecard displayed)

Student replying to teacher’s question

Threaded comments

Increased adoption by content-area teachers

Template Project: Formative Assessment http://noodle.to/votingrightsact

• Label the sources primary or secondary

• Justify your decision in the annotation field.

Endangered Animal: Scaffolded Outline and Notecards

http://noodle.to/endangered

An MLA Starter project with a pre-created outline and notecard sub-questions. The project is scaffolded to help student investigate an animal’s life cycle, habitat and the reasons it’s endangered in order to think of practical ways (local action) to help the animal.

NoodleTools: Software + services

What’s next? Rollout

Staged rollout (you will be notified), no change in pricing.

Google SSO

Available now, we’ll be sending out information via the blog and mailing list shortly. Similar LDAP integration for user management in final development and testing.

Archived webinars

This webinar will be archived: http://noodle.to/webinars

If you’ve never used NoodleTools before, see existing tutorials at:

http://noodle.to/tutorials

New Tutorials

Tutorials available as rollout begins and new website goes online.