Group items tagged

Allows you to create your own custom search within google that only searches resources that you have vetted.

ipl2: Information You Can Trust features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask an ipl2 Librarian online reference service.

Helping students find the best websites for study and research

Good site from Australia for searching resources. Geared towards K-12

Google's project to scan and make books available online

Google's search engine for finding Scholarly articles online.

Meta search engine mentioned in Lesson 4

Meta search engine mentioned in Lesson 4

This is the kids' version of ask.com, a search engine that I find helpful for directing me to clear, basic resources

I like that you can refine your search and also that the interface is very similar to Google, so kids will be comfortable with it. You can also limit your search to certain sites such as educational, dictionaries, or government. There is also a pop up word feature to help you take notes as you research.

Formerly known as Clusty.com, this site is helpful when identifying subtopics.

Another way to collect internet resources, with information about proper citation style

One of my colleagues at BFS showed me this site, another way of organizing web resources. I like the function that helps kids cite resources correctly!

Hey Rachel, how do you feel Zotero compares to Noodle Tools? I'd be interested to hear your opinion. Also, I recently discovered another tool in this category (http://www.wizfolio.com/) which looks interesting, but I haven't had a chance to explore it yet.

Search tool for students

I have used this site for several years. It creates an advanced search in Google. You can designate a search for .edu, .gov sites or encyclopedias (good for pre-searching, etc.).

I am a big fan of the Open Directory and this is a great listing of sites for kids around food production and farming. It may be a great place to get started.

Hi Steve, I noticed that you tagged this and some other resources "BWGOrganic Search Tools" instead of "BGWOrganicSearch" and/or "BGWSearchTools". While this may seem like a minor distinction, the purpose of asking students to use these specific tags is so that anybody in the course can easily find all the resources related to either organic foods or general search tools by simply clicking on a common tag for each subject. You can fix the tags by clicking edit for each bookmark. Thanks

Done and done:)

Clearly compares the benefits of organic grown foods and the conventionally grown foods. Short and easy to read for kids.

I like how this website has kid-friendly search engines listed!!

Hi Heather, great job finding, sharing and commenting on resources on Diigo! I would like to offer a couple of suggestions. You will notice that above that the site that you bookmarked here is www.kidinfo.com. While it's true that this is the main site where you found the article "Organic Foods Are They Safer?, by bookmarking only the front page of the site kidinfo.com instead of the specific page with the article that you want it makes it so that anybody clicking on the link above will still need to navigate the site in order to find this specific article instead of being able to click on the link and going directly to the page. Unfortunately Diigo does not provide a way to edit the address (URL) of sites you have already bookmarked, so if you wanted to make this change you would have to delete the bookmark by clicking on More and then "Delete this Item" above and after you would need to find the article again and re-save it to Diigo. A second suggestion is to add several other tags beyond the required "BGWOrganicSearch" or "BGWSearchTools". For example, the above reference article may discuss specific themes related to organic foods, for example safety or pesticides. By adding the tags "Safety" or "Pesticides" it helps to build a library of tags within Diigo that can be used to quickly differentiate articles based on sub-topics. To add additional tags to bookmarks that are already on Diigo you can click on the More above and then Edit. Again thanks for your great contributions to the course. Please let me know if you have any questions on the suggestions above.