Wow! I had never heard of these tools before. Students have it so easy these days! If any students used these, and really followed them, they'd get "A"s everytime. I tried the calculator for a 6 week project and a 2-day project and it handled both. I looked in the teacher's area and noticed how it helped explain how the resources work. I felt like I could be out of a job soon! I liked how it explained how to search the databases and I think that is one thing in particular that could be printed out and left to aid students or other patrons.
I could see myself recommending this to students, especially the many History Day project students. It list many resources, like style manuals, that we own in the library and can help legitimize the resources we carry and have access to.
As far as my own projects, if I need to write a report, this tool has timelines that could help keep me on track and to keep the process moving. The prompts seem to be generic enough to apply to almost any topic.
If I were giving a presentation on geocaching, I could use this to create an outline of the presentation and flesh it out. I could adapt the timeline to my project. Perhaps I could try this for developing the geocaching class for the library!
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