The library will be closed to students during break and lunch on Thursday and Friday due to setting up and breaking down for the Friday event. I will contact primary teachers individually who have lessons and checkout scheduled on these days to make arrangements.
Tech Tip 6 – The Researcher Tool in Word
Todays Tech tip is a super handy tool for students to use when they are writing their research essays. Microsoft Word has a built-in tool to assist with finding sources and reference material to support the content of their essays called “Researcher”.
Open or create and document in Word, then click the References Tab then click Researcher.
This will open a pane to the right of the document you are working on. You can then type the topic you want to find supporting references for. This will search the internet for journals and websites that have related content.
You can then read the content of these articles right there in the pane beside word without needing to open a web browser. Once you find a good supporting website or journal, there is even a link at the bottom of the source that enables you to automatically add that source as a citation.
For a short video that shows you more about how to use this tool you can check out the following video from Microsoft. https://youtu.be/3BWEyN3G56c
That’s it for today’s Tech Tip. See you again next Tuesday.
Tech Coach Ken