03.24 - Sources and Notecards

Today's work will involve recording sources in your Future Exploration Sources document and on your notecard sheet within this document. If you do not already have access to copies of these documents follow the directions below to create copies of these documents:

Copying a Document on Google Drive (use with Future Explorations Document)

1 - Make sure you are logged in to Google Drive.

2 - Select: File -> Make a Copy...

3 - Rename the document by deleting “Copy of” and replacing it with your last and first    

   name, a dash, and then the original title of the article.

       ex. A document named “English Assignment” will copy as: “Copy of English Assignment”

                          change this to: “Last Name, First Name - English Assignment”

                                             e.g.: “Smith, Jane - English Assignment”

4 - Share the newly named document with my gmail email address (posted on the board)

Copying a Spreadsheet on Google Drive into another Document (use with Notecard document)

1 - Make sure you are logged in to Google Drive.

2 - At the bottom of the spreadsheet page there is a tab with the name of the sheet (in this case the sheet is named “Notecards”). Next to the name of the sheet is a small arrow pointing down. Click on this arrow.

Select: Copy to...

4 - A window will appear showing your Google Drive folders and files. Select the file you want to copy this sheet to (in this case it should be your Future Exploration Sources document).

5 - Click select

6 - Now when you open the other sheets document (in this case your Future Exploration Sources document) you should see the new tab (in this case the “notecards” tab) at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Using the “notecards” spreadsheet:

Use this notecard spreadsheet to record useful information from your research that you would want to cite or discuss in your Future Exploration research project. This information can be recorded using summary, paraphrase, or direct quotations.

You will need 40 notecards in all (that’s about 5 notecards for each of your sources since you will have a minimum of 8 sources).