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leelah gitler

Should I purchase organic foods? - 2 views

www.nal.usda.gov/...BuyOrganicFoodsIntro.shtml

BGWOrganicSearch USDA organic foods organically-grown food environmentally friendly foods organic labels Is food healthier safer

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  • leelah gitler on 14 Jul 10
     
    On this site there are links to other articles and topics on organic food:\n\nA. Where are background resources? [A-3 sections]\n\nB. Does organically-grown food contain more or better nutrients - vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients - than conventionally grown food? [B-7 sections]\n\nC. Are there fewer pesticide residues on organic foods than on conventionally grown foods? Are there fewer antibiotic and hormone residues in organic meat, eggs and dairy products than in conventional animal products? Is organic food safer to eat? [C-5 sections]\n\nD. Are organic foods more environmentally friendly than non-organic foods? Do organic farming practices have fewer negative impacts on soil resources, water quality and climate change than conventional practices? Are organic farms more sustainable? [D-4 sections]\n
Rachel Mazor

Zotero | Home - 0 views

www.zotero.org

BGWsearchtools research citation tools reference bibliography firefox

shared by Rachel Mazor on 15 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Rachel Mazor on 15 Jul 10
     
    Another way to collect internet resources, with information about proper citation style
  • Rachel Mazor on 15 Jul 10
     
    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!
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    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.
Steve Goss

Horizon Information Portal - 0 views

bank.ipac.dynixasp.com/...ipac.jsp

field guide organic foods book Bank Street library BWGOrganic Search

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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    I know we're working to find online resources, but also being able to find "analog" resources online is also helpful.
Steve Goss

Agriculture and Food Supplies :: Food Quality, Safety, and Labeling. --  Brit... - 0 views

search.eb.com/article-229159

Encyclopedia Britannica BWGOrganic Search organic food labeling

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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    This is from the Britannica resource that BSC has as an online database resource. Always handy.
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:)
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.
Steve Goss

Custom Newspaper Product  Document - 3 views

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

organic natural foods supermarkets trends BWGOrganicSearch

shared by Steve Goss on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • 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
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.
Dov Campbell

Copyright | Media Education Lab - 0 views

mediaeducationlab.com/copyright

copyright fair_use resources

shared by Dov Campbell on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Dov Campbell on 21 Jul 10
     
    Resources to learn more about copyright
Dov Campbell

Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more - 1 views

www.google.com/cse

google search searchengine tools searchengines BGWsearchtools

shared by Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Dov Campbell on 19 Jul 10
     
    Allows you to create your own custom search within google that only searches resources that you have vetted.
Dov Campbell

Study Search Australia - 0 views

studysearch.com.au

BGWSearchTools searchengines searchengine kids

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  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Good site from Australia for searching resources. Geared towards K-12
Rachel Mazor

Ask Kids - 0 views

www.askkids.com

BGWsearchtools SearchEngine kids research search search_engine searchengines resources

shared by Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10
     
    This is the kids' version of ask.com, a search engine that I find helpful for directing me to clear, basic resources
Steve Goss

AP :: Images :: Search Results :: organic foods - 0 views

apimages.ap.org/Search.aspx

AP images organic foods BWGOrganic Search

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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    Could be a useful resource to illustrate concepts.
anonymous

Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine - 0 views

www.rollyo.com

custom search create your own search engine search engine students

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  • anonymous on 14 Jul 10
     
    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.
Steve Goss

Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food - 0 views

www.localharvest.org

local harvest organic farmers map area location find search BWGOrganic Search

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  • Steve Goss on 14 Jul 10
     
    Great resource for finding organic food sellers in your area. Would be perfect for research in the field.
Dov Campbell

Intute Research engine - 0 views

www.intute.ac.uk

research resources search engine searchengines BGWSearchTools searchengine search

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  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Helping students find the best websites for study and research
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
Rachel Mazor

Best Organics for the Buck - 0 views

proquest.umi.com/pqdweb

BGWorganicsearch Newsweek conventional organic article contaminants milk beef produce consumer behavior shopping

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  • Rachel Mazor on 13 Jul 10
     
    Newsweek article indicating which conventionally grown items are highest in pesticide contaminants
  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Hi Rachel, we're having some difficult accessing links that were bookmarked from the ProQuest database. I'm contacting Bank Street to see how we can get into the links. In the meantime, if you don't mind. Could you post a comment here with the DocumentID of the article on ProQuest so others can easily find this resource. Thanks.
Kerry Roeder

Simply Organic - 1 views

proquest.umi.com/pqdweb

BGWOrganicSearch organic article health

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  • Kerry Roeder on 13 Jul 10
     
    Proquest article from Vegetarian Times about how much healthier organic foods are.
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  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    Hi Kerry, I'm having trouble accessing this link. This can happen when sites are found through deepweb sites such as ProQuest since they are trying to protect their content. When I click on the link I'm asked for a username and password. I am going to contact the Bank Street librarian and see if she has a username and password that we can use to access the site via this method. In the meantime, if you don't mind, could you post how to find this article through ProQuest (perhaps by Document ID) so that others in the class can access the resource. Thanks
  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    After some further investigation, I found that if I bookmarked a site directly from the Bank Street ProQuest site that there was no problem accessing it through Diigo. A couple questions: are you accessing ProQuest through Bank Street? Are you accessing it from home or on campus?
  • Kerry Roeder on 14 Jul 10
     
    No, I was not accessing it through Bank Street, I was using my school's proquest account.
  • Dov Campbell on 14 Jul 10
     
    If it's possible to find the same article on the BS ProQuest and then post and delete this one, that would be great. Thanks. Dov
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