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Dov Campbell

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

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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    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?
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    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?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
Heather Lorenz

Document View - ProQuest - 4 views

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    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.
Steve Goss

Custom Newspaper Product  Document - 3 views

  • 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.
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      Great piece of information I did not find elsewhere.
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    This is the best I came up with. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-163029099/organic-foods-taking-root.html I will keep searching.
LaVerne White

Organic Food for Thought - 3 views

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    interesting article taking the view that organic food is not necessarily the correct choice, and it certainly will not solve the world's food problem. I used another search engine--Kidinfo.com
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    Really interesting article, LaVerne. This is the first time I've seen this point about "romanticizing" pre-industrial food practices. It's a complicated issue, but certainly worth wondering about.
leelah gitler

Animated Movie About Organic Food - 2 views

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    \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
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    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/
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    I LOVE BrainPop!! great post!!
leelah gitler

Should I purchase organic foods? - 2 views

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    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
LaVerne White

Kids and Organic Food - 2 views

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    short interesting article that deals with health(kids) organic foods
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    Hi LaVerne, I get an error when I click on this link. Would you be able to find the article and post it to Diigo again. After you've done that you can delete this bookmark, but clicking on More and then 'Delete this item' above.
Dov Campbell

Bank Street College of Education - 2 views

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

38 Non-Organic Ingredients Found in 'USDA Organic' Foods - The Daily Green - 2 views

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      The politics behind organic foods is quite an interesting subject.
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    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.
leelah gitler

The Truth About Organic Foods - Pros and Cons of Organic Food - Redbook - 1 views

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    Explains why organic foods may have higher nutritional value than conventionally grown food and when it is worth paying the price for organic foods
Kerry Roeder

Simply Organic - 1 views

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    Proquest article from Vegetarian Times about how much healthier organic foods are.
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    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
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    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?
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    No, I was not accessing it through Bank Street, I was using my school's proquest account.
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    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
Kerry Roeder

Does 'organic' make it; Consumers should weigh cost vs. benefit when deciding what prod... - 1 views

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    Article from Proquest from the Orlando Sentinel that argues an organic label does not imply that is healthier.
leelah gitler

Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious? - 1 views

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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.
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    \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.
Kerry Roeder

YouTube - Is Organic Really Better?: John Swartzberg interview - 1 views

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

ORGANIC FOOD - 1 views

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    "Organic Food" article from Science World, with quiz
Dov Campbell

[ Tagamac ] [ Tagging best practices ] - 1 views

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    Tagging best practices
LaVerne White

New evidence confirms nutrition superiority of plant based organic foods - 1 views

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    This is to correct the URL of my previous post.
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    This article supports the idea that organic foods are better for us than non organic foods.
LaVerne White

Fat secret - 1 views

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    This site is good for nutritional information-uses cereal as an example
Steve Goss

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

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    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.
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    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
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    Done and done:)
Kerry Roeder

The Organic Food Myth - 1 views

  • On the other hand, eating commercially grown fruits and vegetables carries the risk of ingesting potentially toxic pesticides.
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