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Great overview of organic foods and their nutrition from the Mayo Clinic. Includes a side by side comparison of conventional farming v organic farming.

\nLearn the difference between organic foods and their traditionally grown counterparts. Decide which is best for you, considering nutrition, quality, taste, cost and other factors.

Dr. John Swartzberg, head of the Wellness Letter Editorial Board, explains how organic food is better for the environment, but not necessarily your health

Simple overview of what organic food means

Overview of organic food, includes links to articles, pro/con issues, and interactive video.

I'm having trouble accessing this site too. How did you access this site?

Again, I got to this through my school, but I thought sirs was part of proquest and should be available to see.

It seems that ProQuest has a variety of different products so Bank Street may have the main ProQuest database, but not SIRS. I'll ask the librarian.

After viewing the MonkeySee video, one thing that stood out to me was that organic foods with multiple ingredients may contain less than 100% organic food ingredients, with the remaining 5% approved non-organic ingredients. I was curious as to what that list was and this article does a nice job of explaining.

This MonkeySee video gives a clear and concise explanation of the USDA standards for labeling food organic.

This is to correct the URL of my previous post.

This article supports the idea that organic foods are better for us than non organic foods.

Explanation of tools such as delicious and Diigo

Turorial on the Read it Later feature of google. 

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.

Example of using websites for student projects 

Hi Heather, great job finding, sharing and commenting on resources on Diigo! I would like to make one suggestion. You will notice that the title of this bookmark is "Document View - ProQuest", which is what Diigo automatically puts in as a title when you bookmark the article. Since this is too generic and not very helpful to let other students know what the article is about, it would be useful to edit the title (either at the moment you are bookmarking or after) to include the actual title of the article. Again, thanks for your great contributions to the course.

Article describing the concept of Infographics and how they can be used in the classroom

Good overview of Copyright and Fair Use in Education

Examples of Digital Storytelling

EDU version of glogster.  Let's you manage students.

Great documentary on food politics told from the perspective of two eleven-year old kids.

Teens Healthy(!) Habits is a good overview of what kids currently eat and how healthy their choices are. Again, may be a good article to go with the other kids perspective looks at eating and organic foods.

This is a great resource for teachers looking to limit their students' searches to a collection of specific sites.  Try creating a quick search to test it.