Citation Generators
Oh, am I loving this!
I used the one that Ruth recommended some time ago, “Bib Me” and found it amazingly easy to use.
But the question still remains- when do we want students to use this? There are still certain skills and understandings about a bibliography creation (or Reference List as we call it in Saskatoon Public) that we would wish students to have. i think of the obvious ones:
- alphabetical order
- locating publisher, place of publication, copyright date
- practicing a prescribed format
- recognizing copyright demands
I believe that I would still teach the grade 3’s and 4’s to learn how to make a basic list with author and title. In the higher grades, when they have successfully shown that they are able to follow correct bibliographic format, I would be inclined to introduce them to an online Citation Generator.
But for me- yes, I’ll be using it. I’ve already practiced it enough.
Okay- how do I link my bib to this? I’ve tried a few things and they don’t work. I can save it to my own drive at work but this blogger does not support uploading it. Any ideas?
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“Gliffy.com – Create and share diagrams online..” Gliffy.com – Create and share diagrams online.. 26 Oct 2007 <http://www.gliffy.com>.
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“ImageChef – Customize Photos, Clip Art.” ImageChef – Customize Photos, Clip Art. 26 Oct 2007 <http://www.imagechef.com>.
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Leavitt, Martine. Keturah And Lord Death. Asheville: Front Street, 2006.
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“searchCrystal.” searchCrystal. 26 Oct 2007 <http://www.searchcrystal.com>.
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Copyright Matters!. Canada: Canadian Teachers Federation, 2005.
Copied and pasted it in- that works- couldn’t see where to save it any other way onto my drive.
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Well I can’t answer your question about getting your bib onto your blog. I saved mine as a word document which I thought I could copy and paste but no dice. Maybe someone else can tell us? I too used BibMe. I noticed that for citing the website you have to provide author, date etc. and all BibMe does is put in the URL and when it was retrieved. Or am I mistaken? I think I would still go through the steps manually with younger grades as well at this point but as more teachers introduce their students to working on the web I would encourage use of the citation tools. I think knowing why we have to cite works is more important that the details of how to do it. But I’m not saying I don’t want to see it done right! These citation tools will help students do it correctly. I do have one concern and that is that I had to register giving my e-mail address to have my bib saved. Would students in our system be allowed to do this? Is it a safety concern? Can anyone answer this question?
Hi Jane,
On Edublogs you click the upload button at the bottom of the page – then browser for the file on your hard drive. Then click the upload button. When the file has uploaded – click send to editor. You may want to have your cursor where you want the file to be in the post.
Diane…
As for Blogger I did some serious searching in a number of help forums and was quite surprised to find that you cannot upload a file. You can upload almost anything to Bogger – but .docs and pdfs – it seems strange. Most places suggest that you have to use a free file storage site and then link to the document. I hope someone can prove me wrong.
Hi,
Great to hear you’ve been finding BibMe useful! You may be interested to hear that we’re currently building a feature which will allow you to easily share a bibliography and link to it from another website (like this blog). That’s slated to be released around the middle of November.
Ben Tucker
BibMe.org