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Gideon Burton

digital research tools wiki (DiRT) - 0 views

digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com

research tools digital literacy

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  • Gideon Burton on 20 Sep 10
     
    A librarian-hosted wiki about digital research tools. Looks like it mostly was produced around 2008 but still has much useful info, including categories of tools and reviews of these.
Gideon Burton

100 Search Engines for Serious Scholars - 1 views

www.onlineuniversities.com/...h-engines-for-serious-scholars

consume search Scholars Research Engines tools

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 10
     
    A great set of starting points for serious academic online research
  • Brian Earley on 24 Sep 10
     
    Prof. Burton, ceaseless amazement.
Jeffrey Chen

Open Science Project - 2 views

www.openscience.org/blog

Science 2.0 open sourcing blog digiciv

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 21 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Jackie C on 21 Sep 10
     
    I loved how I went to this URL and the first entry was about molecular simulation. I'm just starting a research project with this. I hope that other people will get excited about the prospect of open science, or even as excited about the research and software as I am :)
  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Great link Jackie! I followed your link and really enjoyed reading some of the posts. One that I found particularly interesting is called "What, exactly, is Open Science?" I hadn't really thought about the importance of having research be available and open to everyone, but this article made me think about it and I agree. Thanks again for the link.
  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    A great website that shows how science is becoming more open. A group of scientists "who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."
Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

www.lds.org/...index.jsp

lds priorities information

shared by Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
Erin Hamson

Transparent science - 1 views

www.nature.com/...embor241.html

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      Erin Hamson on 21 Sep 10
       
      Of course they want mess with the data, other wise the fundung companies pulls out from under you...
  • However, whether consciously or subconsciously, the danger is that these data may sometimes be interpreted in a certain, more favourable, light. With private funding of basic research on the increase, potential conflicts of interest are becoming more With private funding of basic research on the increase, potential conflicts of interest are becoming more frequent frequent and scientists may have more than their reputations at stake when making their results public
  • Shuan Pai on 21 Sep 10
     
    Looks into how much is actually disclosed in scientific studies
Kristi Koerner

Virtual Economy Research Network | News, research and discussion on virtual goods, curr... - 1 views

virtual-economy.org

economy Digitial

shared by Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10
     
    A site that helped explain virtual economies and how this is playing a role in our emerging global economy.
Kevin Watson

UK science risks relegation, warns Royal Society - physicsworld.com - 0 views

physicsworld.com/...41938

Science digiciv Royal Society uk risks

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  • Kevin Watson on 22 Sep 10
     
    How much money should be given to Science and Research?
Brandon McCloskey

The History of the Airplane - Orville and Wilbur Wright. - 0 views

inventors.about.com/...blairplane.htm

airplane

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 15 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Brandon McCloskey on 15 Nov 10
     
    Researching airplanes and their impact
Katherine Chipman

Facebook, texting help first-year students connect IRL - 1 views

news.byu.edu/archive10-oct-facebook.aspx

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  • The first-year students averaged 52 minutes per day on social networks such as Facebook. On average, they sent between 11 and 20 text messages per day and spent 45 minutes texting or talking on a cell phone. Most students had between 150 and 200 Facebook friends.
  • More significantly, Jacobsen’s analysis reveals that Facebook and cell phones facilitated face-to-face interactions for this group of students. Initially the researchers suspected that digital media would partially replace offline socializing. Instead they found that face time increased by 10 to 15 minutes for every hour spent with social media and cell phones.
  • LeeAnne Lowry on 04 Nov 10
     
    BYU researchers are saying that Facebook is taking away from college students' social skills and face-to-face interactions....
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 18 Nov 10
     
    This BYU study found that facebook actually increased time students spent together
  • Katherine Chipman on 03 Dec 10
     
    Very interesting results to a BYU study regarding Facebook and texting.
Andrew DeWitt

open link in new tab html code - 1 views

forums.techarena.in/...1184576.htm

open link html code anchor digiciv forum

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Oct 10
     
    I enjoy writing parts of my blog using html code, and I have been frustrated with my own blog that my links do not open up new tabs/windows so I thought I'd so some research on the subject.  Well, this is how!
  • Sarah Wills on 28 Oct 10
     
    thanks for sharing! that annoys me too.
anonymous

YouTube - Voltaire-(Lyrics)The Industrial Revolution (and how it ruined my life) - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

youtube lyrics voltaire the industrial revolution how it ruined my life economics

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  • anonymous on 27 Nov 10
     
    This is a song I found as I was researching the Industrial Revolution. Interesting take on how the industrial revolution ruined our lives.
Gideon Burton

The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...he-internet-we-built-that.html

internet history anthology

shared by Gideon Burton on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
  • What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
  • Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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  • We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
  • what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

www.wired.com/...future-shock

future shock wired

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Erin Hamson

Bacon, Francis [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] - 0 views

www.iep.utm.edu/bacon

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  • Bacon to his credit accepted the judgment against him without excuse. According to his own Essayes, or Counsels, he should have known and done better.
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      Erin Hamson on 20 Sep 10
       
      If this (highlighted) is the purpose of science then why do companies make millions, through keeping their research locked up? I would like to see knowledge like atomic weapons locked up but the rest of it?
  • anonymous on 20 Sep 10
     
    Insight into political/professional life. Not taught regularly in school
Chase McCloskey

Movement of Video Game language into Popular Culture - 0 views

www.stanford.edu/...ent_of_video_game_languag.html

VideoGames language digiciv

shared by Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10
     
    This is an interesting phenomenon that I also chose to write about on my blog. There's still a lot that needs to be researched though.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

technology communities

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Brandon McCloskey on 28 Sep 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is making it easier for people to get by with less knowledge
  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Sep 10
     
    Great article! It brings up some interesting points. This is something that I have thought about a lot lately, because with a lot of technology options today we don't even have to remember information, we can simply save it and have easy access to it later...just not in our brains but on our phones, computers, etc. Also, a really great reference to some interesting research that has been done with taxi drivers.
Kevin Watson

Scholarly Communications @ Duke » What is Open Science? - 1 views

library.duke.edu/...what-is-open-science

digiciv duke communications scholarly open science

shared by Kevin Watson on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The spirit of these principles is that there should be transparency to the methods, observations, data collection, data access, communication, collaboration and research tools.  Instead of limiting the sharing of the practice of science to publication of selected results, the entire scientific process should be exposed to potential users, collaborators and extenders of the work.
  • Kevin Watson on 21 Sep 10
     
    Good short blog on some applications of using Open Science.
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