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SURF Orientation Meeting Second 8-Week Session Begins Registration begins for Summer session 2012 100 Cow and 100 Acre Outreach Seminar Kickoff at 1:00 p.m. Advisory Committee Meeting at 1:00 p.m. Alternative Medicine Seminar at 7:00 a.m. NCTA NIRA Pro Rodeo Rough Stock Camp at 8:00 a.m. NCTA NIRA Steer Riding Clinic & Rough Stock Jackpot at 8:00 a.m. Aggie Days Invitational Judging Contests at 9:00 a.m. Spring Break Farm Safety Day for 5th and 6th Graders at 8:00 a.m.

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Vet Tech Has Much to Offer The Art of Researching NCTA Hosts Stock Seat Horse Show February Aggie of the Month Calendar of Events

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Kari Qualley was the Aggie of the Month in February. Photo by Aaron Couch

dards for herself and laudable aspirations for her future. A student in the Agriculture Production Systems department, Qualley will graduate in May 2012 with an emphasis in Animal Science and will transfer to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she will major in reproductive physiology. She hopes to start her own artificial beef cow insemination business.

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Kari Qualley of Valentine, Neb., was selected the Nebraska College of Technical Agricultures Aggie of the Month for February 2012. Qualley is president of NCTAs Women in Agriculture club and a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. She works part-time in the Student Services office and is a student ambassador and campus tour guide. Student Services-Retention Coordinator Kevin Martin said, Kari is everything you want in a student and employee: Dependable, hard working, always ready to step in and make a contribution. Bubbless personality and ability to make the best of situations will lead her down the path of success in the future. Assistant Professor Eric Reed added: Kari is a good student to have in class. She has high stan-

NCTA Student IHSA Results

Ashley Wiegand: 1st Open Reining, 4th Open Horsemanship Sandy Richtig: 2nd Intermediate II Horsemanship Bayliegh Murphy: 1st Novice Horsemanship Erin Cihak: 5th Beginner Horsemanship Ariel Buhrman: 6th Beginner Horsemanship Meylin Carrasquillo: 6th Beginner Horsemanship Erin Homan: 3rd Intermediate I Horsemanship

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The a variety of emphasis areas, such as companion Veterinary animal, equine, food animal or exotic animals. TechnoloThe lab classes are small and offer a great deal gy Departof hands-on experience for each student. The ment has a department utilizes its new facilities everyday lot to offer with nursing labs, exotic labs, large animal students, techniques, surgeries, etc., and The Dr. Walter including Long Veterinary Teaching Clinic, which allows these five students to gain experience in a clinic environment. Associate If you havent seen what the Veterinary of Applied Teaching Complex has to offer, stop by and Science someone will be happy to show you around. degrees: Currently students are assisting in surgeries Veterinary Ashley Wiegland and Tawny with Dr. Barnes and Barb Berg on Tuesday and Technician, Nekunda assisting Dr. Barnes with Thursday afternoons. A Facebook page has been Veterinary a cat spay. created to share information and pictures of what Assistant, Animal Husbandry, Animal Health Management, is going on in our program with others on and off campus. You can follow the page on Faceand Equine Health Care. Students may also book by going to NCTA Veterinary Technolobtain a 30-hour Animal Care Certificate. ogy. The Veterinary Technician Option requires 80 hours, is AVMA accredited program, and upon completion of the program graduates are eligible to sit for the National Board Exam and become a Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT). Graduates may also transfer to UNL Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences department towards the Veterinary Technologist Bachelors Degree. The NCTA Vet Tech complex has over 25 different animal species for students to work with. The students are responsible for care of all animals under the supervision of the teaching staff that includes three veterinarians Aaron Couch, Joe Stranghoner, Candace Cayer, Beth and two licensed vet techs. Students may Klinetobe and Lyndy Sorenson holding a few of Vet Tech choose to further tailor their education in snakes.

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Collecting, Organizing and Annotating Information

HP). This means you can access your information saved within Evernote virtually anywhere: laptop, a friends computer, school library or on your phone.

The Art of Researching Part One:

Researching is probably one of the most common things college students are required to undertake. It also is something that comes with quite a few complications and questions. However, there are tons of helpful and ubiquitous techniques, skills and methods that can help you land an A+ on your next paper. While gathering some research on how to research, I realized there was a lot of information on the writing of the paper, but not very much on the actual collection of the information and data. Ive decided to compile some helpful tips combined with my expertise to create a series of articles. Each article will illustrate a different aspect of researching: Collecting, Organizing and Annotating Information Searching the Internet for Content What to Use to Compose Your Research Paper In one of my classes, we were talking about research papers and how exactly they should be done. This topic inspired an idea for me: techniques that every college student should know about and use when researching content on the web. Im not going to go so much into the format of the paper that is a different subject. Along with providing helpful techniques throughout this article, I will introduce different tools to help you get the job done right. Some are browser extensions, others are websites, but all are free, trustworthy and essential tools in researching to help you easily collect and organize all your resources no matter what the project is. The Tools

with Diigo is stored in the cloud, all the highlights and sticky notes will stay on the page when you revisit, even from a different computer or device. The other tools offered by Diigo work nicely with the Evernote Web Clipper and/or the Diigo browser add-on. Read Later, like the name implies, allows you to easily save pages to read later. Quick Note is a small extension where you can make a note and title it. Awesome Screenshot allows you take a picture of your screen. It even has a few tools to edit the image such as cropping, adding text or adding shapes to emphasize a certain part of the picture. All of the information and content retrieved or created with these tools can be saved in the cloud in what Diigo calls My Library. you can quickly find them when searching. The Diigo browser add-on has many more features than Evernote. The two really arent comparable. Diigo allows you to save your information in many ways. You can highlight specific bits of a web page to save and remember for later. You can also capture the page as an image or bookmark it as a link. You can also add sticky notes to any area of the web page. Because all the information you collect Conclusion Now that Ive covered the tools and techniques to save your research, the next issue will cover organizing your information that youve collected. If you have any questions or comments concerning what Ive talked about, please contact me at aaron.r.couch+AggieUp@gmail.com or leave a note on the Aggie Up Facebook page.

Diigo is a cloud-based information management system, much like Evernote. It provides you with tools in all major web browsers, Android, iPad and iPhone to help you collect and access a variety of information. Diigo differs from Evernote though, in that it allows you to add highlights, sticky notes and annotations to web pages, as well as doing many other things. Both tools are great to use cohesively. Diigo also has three other helpful tools that allow you to collect information freely on the web. These browser extensions are called: Read Later, Quick Note and Awesome Screenshot, all of which are available for Firefox and Chrome (Awesome Screenshot also works in Safari). Saving Your Hard-Earned Research One problem with researching online is storing and saving all your resources. It can be a huge pain and has happened to the best of us: You are working on a computer in the library and find some awesome sources. Then you forget to write them down so that when you go to work on your laptop, you have to redo all that work finding those sites. Or you email yourself links, which works alright at first, until you have to sift between all the forwards from your Aunt Betsy, spam from Viagra and those stupid newsletters you have yet to unsubscribe from. There are some much more effective ways to save this information and two services excel in this area: Diigo and Evernote. Both Diigo and Evernote offer additional browser extensions for all major browsers. Evernotes is called Evernote Web Clipper. The Web Clipper automatically detects an article and clips only that text. You can then save it to specific Notebooks in Evernote and also title and tag your notes. Tagging is useful to categorize your notes so that

NCTA students placed well at the NCTA Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Schooling Horse Show February 11 at 7:00 a.m. in the Livestock Teaching Center in Curtis.

NCTA Hosts Stock Seat Show

Evernotes slogan is remember everything and it helps you do just that. It is completely free, although there is an upgradeable version with a few more extras. Evernote comes in the form of a web app (which is simply an application in website form that can only be accessed via the Internet), desktop application for Apple and Windows, and smartphone and tablet apps for virtually every mobile operating system: Android (Google), iOS (Apple), Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft) and WebOS (Palm/

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