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Margaret Weddle

Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909... - 0 views

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literature education reading

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  • Margaret Weddle on 23 Sep 10
     
    The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education. Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!
Ariel Szuch

MIT OpenCourseWare | Architecture | 4.602 Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004 | Re... - 0 views

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mit opencourseware modern art modernism mass culture readings

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  • Ariel Szuch on 30 Oct 10
     
    This is the list of readings for the course on Modern Art and Mass Culture found on the MIT OpenCourseware website.
Mike Lemon

Global Food Shortage; A Serious Threat? | Healthmad - 0 views

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shared by Mike Lemon on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • With the global population bursting at the seams, the scarcity of rich land to grow food, and more demanding diets, food supplies are diminishing at an alarming rate.
  • The global population, which currently stands at 6.8 billion, is expected to reach 9 billion within the next 40 years. This is a lot of mouths to feed, especially in areas where population growth will be the highest; mainly Africa and India, which are already facing not only food shortages, but severe water shortages as well.
  • Mike Lemon on 28 Sep 10
     
    When I read about the Economy of Abundance, I couldn't help but remember this article I read a few weeks back. I'll be posting more on this on my blog.
Madeline Rupard

What Evolution Is Google Ebook - 0 views

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ebook google charles darwin biology

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  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Oct 10
     
    Although this is limited in page views, it has a great introduction. I read this book for my colloquium Honors Biology class with Dr. Evans. Our whole them revolved around evolution and this book was very logical and concise. An excellent read.
Bri Zabriskie

IA Books in Browsers 2010 Agenda - Reading 2.0 - 1 views

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open source publish revolution web2.0 media digiciv

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Monocle
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      is it the same as this?: "Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design." -- www.monocle.com
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      What do they mean by reader privacy?
  • ...9 more annotations...
  • Social Reading
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      Social reading -- sounds exciting. I've been thinking how cool it would be to have a class group textbook online. SO like you go online to yoru textbook for your class and you can see what other classmates have highlighted and commented on and tagged and add your own thoughts to the discussion. They can link to their blog posts about a subject in teh book that they did expanded self-directed learning on or just that they thought about more, etc. Sounds SUPER cool, huh? (ok ok, I'll blog about it)
  • discoverability
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      LOVE this word. Discoverability?! he he
  • A network of Books
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      yes! A network of books! just like webpages! 
  • Finding Shelf Space in a World Without Shelves
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      or rethinking the format we're used to!
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      hmm... a sticky subject. 
  • Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
     
    What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall of this conference.  Check out the contents!
Andrew DeWitt

A Tale of two cities - Google Books - 1 views

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google books tale two cities French revolution

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Sep 10
     
    A good historical fiction read on the French Revolution.
  • Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10
     
    This book is a great commentary on people and governments. If you haven't read it, you must.
Gideon Burton

We're Creating a Culture of Distraction | Joe Kraus - 2 views

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distraction multitasking technology consume

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 May 12
     
    A potent and sobering call for reflection about our uses of tech and media. This has the merit of not being dismissive and of being realistic and helpful. Worth reading.
Ariel Szuch

Academic Evolution: Dear Students: Don't Let College Unplug Your Future - 1 views

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academic evolution

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  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Dec 11
     
    An excellent, must-read post by our very own Dr. Burton.
torn halves

Ken Robinson, the Element & the Iron Cage - 0 views

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ken robinson max weber work the element finding your element critique economy

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  • torn halves on 27 Aug 13
     
    Reading Ken Robinson's The Element and Finding Your Element from the viewpoint of Max Weber's Iron Cage. Welcome to the Machine!
Mike Lemon

Intelligences - 0 views

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  • Mike Lemon on 21 Sep 10
     
    I read this a few weeks ago. It only seems fitting that I bring it up during this class on empiricism.
Andrew DeWitt

Speeches Website - 0 views

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open digiciv open movement capitalism giving byu forum free give

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
     
    BYU Forum. Great Talk!  This is a must read/listen about if you give more you will actually make more.  Link that to ideas of a free economy.  
Bri Zabriskie

Browse Challenges : Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Governmen... - 0 views

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open government

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 17 Sep 10
     
    This seems like an interesting step towards open government, if gentle. I read about the site on someone's blog and decided to check it out. It purports to present problems to the public for them to solve hand in hand with the government. 
Andrew DeWitt

Throw Grammar from the Train - 0 views

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Grammar blog words punctuation humanism humanist

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 29 Sep 10
       
      Fascinating!  You could subscribe to the Boston Globe to read "The Word" written by this author, or you could read her blog.  I'm thinking: open source, free media, etc.
  • Jan Freeman has written The Word, a weekly Boston Globe column
  • Andrew DeWitt on 29 Sep 10
     
    A Blogspot "Blog of Note" that emphasizes the fascinating power of words, grammar and punctuation.  A modern-day renaissance humanist
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

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  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10
       
      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
Mike Lemon

States claiming the most Presidents - The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies - ... - 0 views

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  • Mike Lemon on 11 Oct 10
     
    After reading today's pieces on frontier ideology and what not, I thought it would be interesting to see where Presidents come from.
Bri Zabriskie

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

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presentations education web2.0 digiciv literacy labs

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 14 Oct 10
     
    Here's some awesome ideas for digital literacy labs (or if you need a cool way to present your latest reading assignment). Prezi's not the only one out there. :)
James Wilcox

Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists - 0 views

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digiciv evolution

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  • James Wilcox on 09 Oct 10
     
    This is where it all started.  Darwin's "Origin of Species" A book that has sat on my to read list for way too long.
James Wilcox

Financial Times: The rise of a new generation of Mormons | Mormon Times - 0 views

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digiciv mormon

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  • James Wilcox on 21 Oct 10
     
    This is one of the best outside articles I have ever read about the church.
Margaret Weddle

Bowditch Online - 1 views

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Bowditch navigation piloting tides time sailing oceans ice weather

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  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    The American Practical Navigator Great stuff, if you've ever had an inkling of an interest in sailing, oceans, weather, etc! Read the Juvinile Fiction book, "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" to understand what this is all about - an old neighbor (a Navy Submariner) told me that this book is part of the standard library on every Navy vessel! VERY interesting browsing, this!
  • Margaret Weddle on 08 Oct 10
     
    Cool stuff that goes with our selected book!
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