Author: Jim
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WordPress Meetup Detroit – Feb 2015
I’m speaking at the WordPress Meetup Detroit on Feb 9, 2015. From the promo: WordPress Presents! How to Boost (or Even Replace) PowerPoint With WordPress Monday, February 9, 2015 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM United Way – Campus Martius 660 Woodward Ave. Suite 300, Detroit, MI (map) Price: $5.00/per person Refund policy If you make…
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Ten Easy Steps to Powerpoint Resurrection
No more “death by Powerpoint”. Stop killing your students’ interest with dull Powerpoint presentations. Don’t get me wrong, this is not another anti-lecture screed. I’m not against lecture and I’m not against using Powerpoint (or Keynote for you Apple fan boys or Libre/Open Office for the liberated). I’m against bad lecture and bad Powerpoint. It…
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Blogging to Engage Students
Malartu Inc is helping professors find their voice on the web at the Teaching Professor Technology Conference 2014 in Denver. Here’s the presentation that Jean Ramirez and Jim Luke of Lansing Community College are giving about “Blogging to Engage Students, Enhance Learning, and Save Time”, or in other words, how to get your own voice…
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Community Presentation: How to Get Started Blogging
A presentation I’m doing March 27, 2014 for SCAN-Wayne, a metro Detroit community group/network of aging services businesses. They’re interested in how to build a web presence.
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Intergenerational Transfers: Is the Older Generation Stealing the Younger Generation’s Future?
Presentation to Jill Reglin’s classes today:
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Effective Strategic Planning in Disruptive and Challenging Times – HLC 2014
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Michigan Online Enrollments – Opportunity?
For reference on online enrollments in Michigan community colleges: http://mfeldstein.com/online-education-us-public-2-year-institutions-focus-michigan/
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Busting the Medicare “Crisis” Myth – Again
I’ll be presenting to the Senior Coordinating Aging Network (SCAN) – Wayne County Thursday, January 23, 2014. It’s a slightly shorter version of the the Busting the Medicare Myths I gave last fall. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering…
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Busting the Medicare Myths
I’ll be presenting to the Michigan Intergenerational Network again Wednesday, November 13. This time the talk is about Busting the Medicare Myths. I’ll be showing how a lot of the rhetoric about the future of Medicare and the Federal budget deficit is fear-mongering intended to cut benefits for seniors. The reality is more complex and…
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Intergenerational Transfers Presentation – Again
I repeated the Intergenerational Transfers presentation to Jill Reglin’s writing classes today. It’s especially timely given the efforts by some well-heeled Wall St types and some “journalists” to convince college-age students that somehow older Americans can only benefit if younger people lose – a pit-the-generations-against-each-other concept. But that’s not really how it works. For the…