Digital Civilization

For those of you who felt like me upon seeing the Map of Knowledge and were discouraged at your ineptness. These are some fantastic ideas to get you started on the path to learning forever.

Encyclopedia entry on "California". The entry on America said that more specific information was given under the different regions. I decided to look up California, since that was one of the regions the entry listed. This is quite an entertainging description of California and it makes me wonder what their sources were.

The LDS church is member sourcing their new public relations by inviting people to submit their own "Mormon Message" video. The church is inviting people to make use of official LDS media (musical and video recordings, etc.) within their individual creations.

Great Video on Open Media and Crowdsourcing! You really ought to watch this! It's actually really interesting!!

Cool Flash Mob Videos!

How much money should be given to Science and Research?

Heidi Miller's blog about social media. Great content

Somebody you might want to follow...

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This is proof that you can find anything on the web. I hope you all enjoy. If you want to look deeper into any meaning that can be derived from this website, it would be that I found this website by doing the following: I looked on the digital literacy labs page, I clicked on the Create labs, I clicked the link to Slideshare.net, I looked at the top presentations which was done by a Heidi Miller, I followed Heidi Miller, looked at her profile, went to her blog, read some then scrolled down far enough and found this sweet gem of the internet.

Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world

Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.

Mike Lemmon made an excellent post on Personal Learning Networks, that led me to talk to him and Jeffery Whitlock about them. Jeffery led me to this book about declining social capital, and made a blog post about it.

Speaking of scale in class. I found this video.

In light of talking about different ways of thinking, and different scientific methods. I thought this would be appropriate.

Flipping back to our conversation about getting computers to understand our language, this google video explains the very interesting method which Google Translate utilizes for understanding human language.

Interesting ideas on how open access, open data, and open knowledge can all be incorporated into the field of science. Good video.