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Greg Williams

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

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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”
  • homely story
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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.
David Potter

List of additional websites and resources for the atomic age - 0 views

ocw.mit.edu/...related-resources

digiciv atomic

shared by David Potter on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • David Potter on 11 Nov 10
     
    Fantastic list of websites related to the atomic age from MIT open-course syllabus
Gideon Burton

Digital Library for Nuclear Issues - 1 views

alsos.wlu.edu/default.aspx

atomic age

shared by Gideon Burton on 10 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 10 Nov 10
     
    Great resource for atomic age issues, overviews, maps, history, etc.
Kristi Koerner

The Great War Society (1914-1918) - 0 views

www.the-great-war-society.org

shared by Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Kristi Koerner on 28 Oct 10
     
    good resource for information on WWI
Kristen Nicole Cardon

Game Theory - 0 views

www.gametheory.net/

economics

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  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 09 Nov 10
     
    A resource for educators and students of game theory
Madeline Rupard

Free Photoshop Textures - 0 views

www.photoshoptextures.com

blog tutorial photoshop digiciv media create

shared by Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10
     
    Check out my newest blog entry and you'll see that I have a photoshop tutorial posted! I discuss textures and their many uses in this entry, so it will likely be very useful for a good resource for textures if you want to create new media through the most powerful tool that is Adobe Photoshop CS4!
Madeline Rupard

A Tool to Pronounce Every Word in the World - 0 views

www.forvo.com/languages

digiciv open language technology international world

shared by Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 19 Nov 10
     
    It is what it is. A pretty cool, relatively simple resource.
Greg Williams

About | Working Notes - 0 views

petersbenjamin.wordpress.com/about

people resources digitalculture newmedia media information academia government digiciv education

shared by Greg Williams on 17 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Greg Williams on 17 Jun 13
     
    Met this guy at church today
Ariel Szuch

ScholarSearch - 0 views

primofe1.byu.edu/...search.do

open government scholarsearch

shared by Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Open government (View details) Perritt, H Government Information Quarterly, 1997, Vol.14(4), p.397-406 [Peer Reviewed Journal] updating... Full text available (GetIt) Add to e-Shelf
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    Article: "Open Government" by H Perritt
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    This article has a very interesting section on why open government is important to a democratic society.
Gideon Burton

Government 2.0: The Currents Of Our Time - 0 views

public.resource.org/currents

open government transparency

shared by Gideon Burton on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 27 Sep 10
     
    Speech from the Government 2.0 Summit  (Washington D.C. Sept 7, 2010) by Carl Malamud
Trevor Cox

Political Science Resource Blog - 0 views

polisciprof.blogspot.com

digiciv locke freedom

shared by Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cox on 30 Sep 10
     
    An older post here has a great commentaries on Locke and his social contract
Sarah Wills

Intelligent Design FAQs & Primers - 1 views

www.ideacenter.org/...faq.php

shared by Sarah Wills on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Sarah Wills on 18 Oct 10
     
    quick facts of evolution vs. intelligent design
Kevin Watson

Reassessing the industrial revolution - 0 views

www.admin.cam.ac.uk/...2010092101

digiciv industrial revolution

shared by Kevin Watson on 04 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Energy and the English Industrial Revolution, which is launched this week, suggests that the era not only stimulated unprecedented progress and growth, but opened a "Pandora's Box" of hazards. While new wealth was created and entire populations lifted out of poverty, the nature of economies also changed dramatically - from forms that were naturally self-limiting, to models which involve plundering finite natural resources without heeding the attendant dangers.
  • Kevin Watson on 04 Oct 10
     
    New views on the negative side of the Industrial Revolution
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

xroads.virginia.edu/...chapter10.html

shared by Erin Hamson on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
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  • 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
Katherine Chipman

Family - 0 views

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family

shared by Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    A great resource for information on the family from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
David Potter

Podcast on Capitalism and Growth - 1 views

webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php

capitalism

shared by David Potter on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    This is a collection of podcasts. Abstract:Economic Geography of the Industrial Word - Fall 2007. This course covers topics such as Industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North. Locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance. Geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor. Property, labor, and social conflict as geographic forces. Local, national, and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance.
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