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leelah gitler

ORGANIC FARMING AUDIOSCRIPT - 0 views

www.learnenglish.org.uk/...organic-farming.pdf

BGWOrganicSearch natural food organic meat genetically modified foods GMF pesticides hormones pros and cons of organic worksheet

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    Read a dialogue between two people discussing the pros and cons of choosing organic food. Includes a worksheet for students to fill in different opinions on the pros and cons of eating organic foods.
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    Hi Leelah, nice job finding and posting resources on Diigo! One issue that I noticed is that you tagged this and some other resources "BWG organic search" instead of "BGWOrganicSearch" (Notice there are no spaces). 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 organic foods by simply clicking on a common tag. You can fix the tags by clicking edit for each bookmark. Also, I noticed that you bookmarked several articles about organic food, but I don't see that you bookmarked any general search engines for kids as requested in Assignment 7 - Part 2. Thanks
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    Another thing I noticed is that because you are using spaces in your tags some of the phrases that you want to tag, for example "pros and cons of organic" are getting split up into several smaller tags. The issue with this is that it creates tags that don't have much meaning, for example "of" or "and". The best way to group a phrase as a single tag is to put quotes around the entire tag, like "pros and cons of organic". Other ways are to put underscores between words, like pros_and_cons_or_organic. And a final way is to not use spaces and to vary the capitalization, like example ProsAndConsOfOrganic.
leelah gitler

Animated Movie About Organic Food - 2 views

www.brainpop.com/...preview.weml

BGWOrganicSearch health benefits of organic food why is organic food more expensive why is organic better for the environment

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    \n\nAre you eating as healthily as you can? In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby examine the ins and outs of organic food. Discover what makes organic food organic, and how it differs from non-organic food. You'll find out which government organization is in charge of regulating organic labels and about the laws controlling what can be labeled organic. Plus, you can learn about the benefits and drawbacks to organic farming, as well as what its supporters claim about the health benefits of organic food. So microwave yourself a nice bowl of organic, fair-trade popcorn and enjoy the movie!\n
  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    Great find. Brain Pop is a great site with plenty of useful information on a variety of topics for educators. And I'm not just saying that because I sit on the Brain Pop Advisory Board. http://www.brainpop.com/about/advisors/
  • Heather Lorenz on 18 Jul 10
     
    I LOVE BrainPop!! great post!!
Dov Campbell

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal L... - 8 views

www.diigo.com

web2.0 bookmarking diigo research collaboration tools

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  • Dov Campbell on 29 Jun 10
     
    Based on the videos you watched and/or articles you read, what are your thoughts on Diigo? Do you think this could be something useful for you and your students? Please comment by clicking the "Comment" link above.
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  • anonymous on 06 Jul 10
     
    I really like the idea of sharing quality resources with others. I can also imagine that viewing not only the discoveries, but the comments and questions of others, will support my students' critical thinking skills.
  • LaVerne White on 06 Jul 10
     
    Yes, I do. I am a novice here. Heretofore I have not gone beyond Google and Wiki.. I look forward to learning from the resources other educations will provide and adding resources from the sources that I have gathered from my research. This will help me and my students. I am ready to work.
  • Steve Goss on 06 Jul 10
     
    I am really intrigued but the annotation and sticky notes features offered by Diigo. The ability Diigo gives the user to not only save and suggest sites, but also add layers of additional information onto those sites seems extremely useful from a professional development angle. The question I have is if I store a site with annotations or stickies, does anyone else who follows my links get to see my added notes? Or is that personal only to my Diigo view?
  • Dov Campbell on 06 Jul 10
     
    Hi Steve, I like this feature too and that's a great question. Basically there are three levels of sharing with sticky notes, PRIVATE (default), PUBLIC, or GROUP. Here is Diigo's explanation: Private sticky notes are viewable by the author and any forwarded recipients. Public sticky notes can be seen on the page by all Diigo members with the Diigo toolbar or Diigolet installed, and its viewing mode set to "All". The highlights associated with public sticky notes also become PUBLIC, i.e., viewable to all Diigo members. Public highlights and sticky notes should be done with care. To minimize graffiti and spam, we have raised the bar for making public highlights and sticky notes. More info here: http://help.diigo.com/how-to-guide/sticky-note To demonstrate this I created a GROUP sticky note on the main Bank Street page...Can you see it?
  • Steve Goss on 06 Jul 10
     
    I could see the note and I added my own comment. I really like the concept of Diigo, so it will be interesting to use it for the assignment. If I had any frustration with Diigo, it's as a MAC user it is not Safari friendly. With that said, it works fine on MAC with Firefox.
  • Kerry Roeder on 08 Jul 10
     
    I really like the idea of being able to highlight and annotate things you find on the web or things you want students to look at. I briefly used delicious in graduate school, but mostly just to bookmark articles I wanted to go back to later. I really like the interactivity of diigo (since I didn't use it that much, I'm not sure how much delicious offers) and think it would definitely be useful in the classroom.
  • Dov Campbell on 08 Jul 10
     
    Kerry, I also used delicious before diigo and I agree that it worked great for bookmarking, but the social aspects were not nearly as developed as diigo. Incidentally, if you or any of the students already have a delicious account it's possible to import your bookmarks into diigo and also to have any new bookmarks you create in diigo also posted to delicious.
anonymous

Organic Food Miles Take Toll On Environment - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...070606113311.htm

organic food miles environment BGWOrganicSearch

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  • anonymous on 14 Jul 10
     
    The look of this site and the presence of advertising make me a little cautious about its content.  What do you think about the reliability of this site as a neutral source of scientific information?  
LaVerne White

Organic Foods Are They Safer? - 0 views

www.kidinfo.com

BGWOrganicSearch

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  • LaVerne White on 14 Jul 10
     
    Clearly compares the benefits of organic grown foods and the conventionally grown foods. Short and easy to read for kids.
  • Heather Lorenz on 18 Jul 10
     
    I like how this website has kid-friendly search engines listed!!
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    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.
leelah gitler

What is organic food? - 0 views

www.buzzle.com/...what-is-organic-food.html

BGWOrganicSearch organic food pros and cons of organic food what is organic food organic labels pesticides advantages of organic foods farming

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    Buzzle.com has many links to other articles about organic products, advantages of organic foods, differences between organic and non-organic foods, organic farming, etc...
Rachel Mazor

YouTube - Organic Food vs. Conventional Food : Identifying Organic Foods - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

BGWorganicsearch YouTube video organic definition USDA certification claims food

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  • Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10
     
    YouTube clip explaining USDA organic certification levels (100%, 95%, etc.) This is one of a series of videos addressing issues related to organic food (irradiated food, conventional processing, etc.)
Dov Campbell

Tour: Research | Diigo - 0 views

www.diigo.com/research

socialbookmarking research

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  • Dov Campbell on 11 Jul 10
     
    Tour of some of Diigo's features
Steve Goss

Open Directory - Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: Farming - 1 views

www.dmoz.org/...Farming

search resource DMOZ open directory farming gardening resources kids teens BWGSearchTools

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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    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.
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    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
  • Steve Goss on 19 Jul 10
     
    Done and done:)
leelah gitler

Organic food info - Advantages of organic food - what goes in to your food? - 0 views

www.organicfoodinfo.net

organic food advantages BGWOrganicSearch

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    a website with many readable articles on topic of organic food
leelah gitler

My Visit to an Organic Farm - 1 views

www.ecokids.ca/...play_visitthefarm.cfm

organic farm organic farming benefits of organic farming free range soil erosion crop diversity composting sustainable farming industrial farming locally grown food difference between organic and conventional farming BGWOrganicSearch

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    interactive tour of an organic farm. students must find 8 things about organic farming and why they are beneficial to our environment.
Rachel Mazor

Organic.org - 0 views

www.organic.org

BGWorganicsearch organic FAQ advice advocacy resource

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  • Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10
     
    Website of the Organic Alliance
  • Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10
     
    Website of the Organic Alliance
Dov Campbell

My Maps for teaching Physics and Literature - 0 views

google-latlong.blogspot.com/...maps-for-teaching-physics.html

maps tools presentation options google maps

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  • Dov Campbell on 21 Jul 10
     
    Examples of using mapping in the classroom
anonymous

Methodology | Environmental Working Group - 0 views

www.foodnews.org/methodology.php

dirty dozen clean fifteen produce pesticides BGWOrganicSearch

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  • anonymous on 14 Jul 10
     
    A list of the Environmental Working Group's "dirty dozen" and "clean fifteen"-- most and least pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables.
anonymous

EBSCOhost: Basic Search - 1 views

web.ebscohost.com/...search

BGWOrganicSearch database sustainability environment

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  • anonymous on 14 Jul 10
     
    A free database of information concerning human beings' relationship to the environment.  Note the search options.
Steve Goss

Custom Newspaper Product  Document - 3 views

find.galegroup.com/...retrieve.do

organic natural foods supermarkets trends BWGOrganicSearch

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  • The difference between "organic" and "natural" foods is that the word "natural" isn't regulated. Manufacturers can call any product "natural," except for meat and poultry. It would be up to the consumer to decide whether to trust the company. Not so with organics.
    • Steve Goss
      Steve Goss on 13 Jul 10
       
      Great piece of information I did not find elsewhere.
  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Hi Steve, when I try to access this site it asks for a "UserGroup Identification". How did you access this resource?
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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    I accessed all of these resources through the Bank Street Library databases. Since I did my work from the school I had direct access. I assume that if you use the Bank Street Library log on information that everyone received, you would be able to access this resource.
  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Unfortunately the code that we were given doesn't work on this prompt. I will write to Kristen and see if there's a fix for this.
  • Heather Lorenz on 18 Jul 10
     
    Dov - were you able to get a code to access this doc? I would love to read this as it seems to be relevant to my search! Thanks
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    Unfortunately not. Steve, I noticed that this article came from the Albany Times Union. If you don't mind could you try to find the article on their website and post the link in the comments here or as a separate bookmark. Thanks.
  • Steve Goss on 19 Jul 10
     
    This is the best I came up with. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-163029099/organic-foods-taking-root.html I will keep searching.
  • Dov Campbell on 20 Jul 10
Dov Campbell

Pomodoro technique for minimizing distraction - 0 views

m.lifehacker.com/...r-brain-away-from-distractions

distractions productivity video

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  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Goes along with idea of using a timer and setting goals
Dov Campbell

ipl2: Information You Can Trust - 0 views

www.ipl.org

reference library research BGWSearchTools search searchengine searchengines

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  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    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.
Dov Campbell

Bank Street College of Education - 2 views

www.bankstreet.edu/www

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    • Dov Campbell
      Dov Campbell on 06 Jul 10
       
      I'm thrilled that you are exploring the features of Diigo
    • Steve Goss
      Steve Goss on 06 Jul 10
       
      Interesting.
    • Kerry Roeder
      Kerry Roeder on 08 Jul 10
       
      I really like the sticky note feature.
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