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Erin Hamson

Consumer How To - Swipe Auctions Saving Consumers Up To 95% Off Retail Prices - 0 views

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free Digiciv economy

shared by Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Each bid placed on SwipeAuctions costs users $0.60. By collecting $0.60 for each bid placed, SwipeAuctions is able to afford giving away products on the cheap such as Macbooks for $23.72 or Nikon Digital Cameras for $57.42.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
       
      The "free" business model
  • There is no longer a need to spend several hours online looking to see where the best deal is. The answer is simple. It's on SwipeAuctions! Whereas scouring the internet for to save an extra 5% works for some people, why waste your time when you could save 75%! SwipeAuctions is so much more than economical.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
       
      Time v. price
  • Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
     
    Here is an example of a business model that is giving away the "free" stuff and making profit on other things.
  • Erin Hamson on 29 Sep 10
     
    Exactly today's topic!
Katherine Chipman

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 0 views

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lds civility

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Speaking of civility on a personal level, Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught Latter-day Saints how to respond to criticism: “Some people mistakenly think responses such as silence, meekness, forgiveness, and bearing humble testimony are passive or weak. But, to ‘love [our] enemies, bless them that curse [us], do good to them that hate [us], and pray for them which despitefully use [us], and persecute [us]’ (Matthew 5:44) takes faith, strength, and, most of all, Christian courage.”
Ariel Szuch

ScholarSearch - 0 views

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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.
Greg Williams

Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 0 views

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connectivism teaching learning education

shared by Greg Williams on 26 Sep 12 - Cached
  • What is the role of a teacher?
    • Greg Williams
      Greg Williams on 26 Sep 12
       
      And what is the role of education? Hard to know what the teacher should be doing if we can't answer that
  • How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means? How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
  • control is being replaced with influence.
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  • A curator is an expert learner.
  • they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored.
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.
Mike Lemon

Calls for longer school years face budget reality - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    • Mike Lemon
      Mike Lemon on 28 Sep 10
       
      Is lengthening the school day or year the answer?
  • Education reformers have long called for U.S. kids to log more time in the classroom so they can catch up with their peers elsewhere in the world, but resistance from leisure-loving teenagers isn't the only reason there is no mass movement to keep schoolchildren in their seats. Such a change could cost cash-strapped state governments and local school districts billions of dollars, strip teachers of a time-honored perk of their profession, and irk officials in states that already bridle at federal intrusion into their traditional control over education.
  • Texas already forbids school from starting before the fourth Monday of August, a provision designed to save money on utility bills and increase business for tourist destinations and other summer attractions. "Ultimately the states, not the federal government, should have the final word on this and other public school decisions," said Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry. In Kansas, sporadic efforts by local districts to extend the school year at even a few schools have been met by parental resistance, said state education commissioner Diane DeBacker.
Katherine Chipman

ExpoMuseum / The Great Exhibtion of the Works of Industry of All Nations (The Crystal P... - 0 views

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shared by Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace - from Victorian Station
    • Katherine Chipman
      Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
       
      Excellent overview!
Brandon McCloskey

Chinese Cow Manure Generates Electricity In Largest-Ever Methane Capture System | Popul... - 0 views

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science

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 23 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • A gigantic Chinese dairy farm is now the world’s largest methane farm, turning a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions into a lucrative renewable energy source.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 23 Nov 10
     
    How agricultural advancements are evolving their own energy converters.
anonymous

Media influence on politics and government - by Tatum Wilcox - Helium - 0 views

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media government

shared by anonymous on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Not only does the mass media have extensive authority in political campaigns, but they can even exercise power over government officials and affairs. The media and the president both need each other; "The media need news to report, and the president may need coverage." Therefore, both the president and the media work hard to utilize one another. Public problems that receive the most media coverage are considered to be the most important ones by the public, giving the media an important role in the public agenda. The media provides the government with a better understanding of the need and desires of the society.
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