{"id":1065,"date":"2014-05-13T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2014-05-12T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:32:17","slug":"1minutehowto-use-easybib-to-create-a-googledoc-bibliography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/1minutehowto-use-easybib-to-create-a-googledoc-bibliography\/","title":{"rendered":"#1minutehowto: Use EasyBib to create a GoogleDoc bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u55x71C1MM8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Why We Like This<\/h2>\n<p>This is Amy Gibson&#8217;s fabulous (and brief!) tutorial video about the <a href=\"http:\/\/easybib.com\" target=\"_blank\">EasyBib<\/a> Google Docs Add-On, which lets you easily create a works-cited page for any Google Doc. Now, I could&#8217;ve simply linked you all to her video and added a bunch of exclamation marks, but I wanted to point out a couple things I really like about this particular tutorial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tellagami.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tellagami<\/a> narrator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to tell you a secret: I have a teeny little attention span. I get easily distracted by Twitter, Pinterest, my dogs, stray gusts of wind, etc. And it&#8217;s way more engaging\u00a0to watch\u00a0a gesturing cartoon character narrate a screencast than a disembodied voice. Also, with a background that&#8217;s relatively fixed and um, un-dynamic, shall we say, the Tellagami provides a visual focus that makes everything more fun to look at.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Addressing the human element in evaluating a credible internet source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EasyBib is indeed an easy way to locate, capture and format your online works cited, but Gibson mentions the all-important\u00a0Check Your Source factor. Do not trust the internet.\u00a0Check out what you&#8217;re citing, <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/treeoctopus\/\" target=\"_blank\">in case octopi don&#8217;t actually live in trees<\/a>, and there&#8217;s not really <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/treeoctopus\/\" target=\"_blank\">an island sanctuary ruled by dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Skitch<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/notability.com\" target=\"_blank\">Notability<\/a>-style video mark-up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Too many times when I&#8217;m watching tutorial videos do I find myself squinting at a GIANT desktop with an itty-bitty activity area. Or worse yet, the narrator will simply say &#8220;over there to the right&#8221; and I&#8217;ll squint in vain for where I&#8217;m supposed to follow along. I am old, people. Old and half-blind. Do me and all your other viewers a favor and use Skitch or Notability to add large, brightly colored arrows to your screencasts.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a terrific tutorial, but also a great example of how to create an engaging tutorial video. (And can you say &#8220;app-smash&#8221;? I can, and do. Often. <a title=\"Think outside the app: 3 outstanding examples of app-smashing\" href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/think-outside-the-app-3-outstanding-app-smashing-assignments\/\" target=\"_blank\">App-smash<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see some folks try this with their students. Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why We Like This This is Amy Gibson&#8217;s fabulous (and brief!) tutorial video about the EasyBib Google Docs Add-On, which lets you easily create a works-cited page for any Google Doc. Now, I could&#8217;ve simply linked you all to her video and added a bunch of exclamation marks, but I wanted to point out a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/1minutehowto-use-easybib-to-create-a-googledoc-bibliography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#1minutehowto: Use EasyBib to create a GoogleDoc bibliography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,104,70,125],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-we-like","tag-easybib","tag-google-docs","tag-skitch","tag-tellagami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}