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I am an assistant professor at Brigham Young University. In Diigo I save and share bookmarks related to K-16 technology integration, particularly as they relate to students of my IPT 286 class.

I am interested in instructional technology,distance learning,educational psychology,teaching,educational research. My favorite music are Broadway,acapella voice bands,crossover classical..

Member since Jun 09, 2009, follows 1 people, 1 public groups, 147 public bookmarks (147 total).

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  • ksl.com - Max Impact about 14 hours ago

    • Having sampled just a bit of the press reaction so far, I have sensed false indignation on behalf of many individuals--some of whom have spent a great deal of time prodding and poking, looking for or hoping for players (present and former) on both sides of the rivalry to say something provocative leading up to the BYU-Utah game.


      These media members promote contests and segments of programming dedicated to "trash talk" between the two sides. They mock and call disingenuous players who choose to play it straight and avoid bulletin board material. They want someone--anyone, to say something--anything, to stoke the fires. They know that inflammatory = entertaining, and they seek out the outrageous.


      Then, when a player like Max Hall lets loose and reveals his personal feelings of hurt (or hate), he is attacked by these same media members for a lack of sportsmanship and class, and is derided for his forthrightness.

  • Facts on Fatherless Kids on 2009-11-24
    • engage in greater and earlier sexual
      activity."
    • dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness,
      suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and
      criminality.
  • Statistics of a Fatherless America on 2009-11-24
    • Fatherly influence. Children with fathers at home tend to do better in school,

      are less prone to depression and are more successful in relationships. Children

      from one-parent families achieve less and get into trouble more than children

      from two parent families.


      Source: One Parent Families and Their Children: The School's Most Significant

      Minority, conducted by The Consortium for the Study of School Needs of Children

      from One Parent Families, co-sponsored by the National Association of Elementary

      School Principals and the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, a

      division of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Arlington, VA., 1980
    • ct now, pay later: "Children from mother-only families have less of an ability

      to delay gratification and poorer impulse control (that is, control over anger

      and sexual gratification.) These children also have a weaker sense of conscience

      or sense of right

      and wrong." 

      Source: E.M. Hetherington and B. Martin, "Family Interaction" in H.C. Quay and J.S. Werry (eds.), Psychopathological Disorders of

      Childhood. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979)





      Underpaid high achievers: Children from low-income, two-parent families

      outperform students from high-income, single-parent homes. Almost twice as many

      high achievers come from two-parent homes as one-parent homes. 

      Source: "One-Parent Families and Their Children;" Charles F. Kettering

      Foundation (1990)
  • LDS.org - Family Chapter Detail - “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” on 2009-11-24
    • Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.
    • By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families.
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  • Three Great Browser Extensions « The Playground on 2009-11-24
  • LDS.org - Ensign Article - One for the Money on 2009-11-22
    • 1. Teach
    • 5. Learn
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  • PsycNET - Option to Buy on 2009-11-18
    • Considers the definition and assessment of creativity and presents a componential framework for conceptualizing this faculty.
  • World History : HyperHistory on 2009-11-18
  • GoAnimate - Create your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don't need to learn Flash. on 2009-11-18
  • xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe on 2009-11-17

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