Author: Jim
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Blogs! What Are They and How They Can Help Professors and Students
I’m giving a presentation/workshop at LCC Center for Teaching Excellence on Oct 15, 2013 about Blogs! What Are They and How Can They Help You and Your Students? From the description: Come to this session and learn what “Blogs” are, how they work, how you can use a blog to help your students and improve…
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Reprise: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
Today, I reprised my presentation from last July to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. This time the setting and audience was a guest lecture to the Madonna University Gerontology Dept.’s Policy The…
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The Cloud and WordPress – Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup
I’m speaking Sunday, Sept 8, 2013 to the Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup group: Amazon doesn’t just sell books. They’re also the largest provider of “cloud” computing resources. Jim will give a simple intro to Amazon Web Services “cloud computing” and demo how you can use Amazon S3 in WordPress to speed up downloads of media…
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The MOOC’s Are Coming! The MOOC’s Are Coming!
I’m giving and hour-long workshop in the LCC Center for Teaching Excellence today on MOOC’s. It’s kind of an introduction for faculty to the phenomenon and controversy that are MOOC’s. (thanks to M.Branson Smith for the graphic) Download the Powerpoint file here. I will be expanding this presentation and making it into a full-online discussion…
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Fall Semester 2013
Classes starting today! Welcome to my Principles of Econ-Micro ECON 201 (online), Principles of Econ-MACRO (f-2-f and hybrid), and my US Economic and Business History ECON 213 (online) students.
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Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?
I gave a presentation today to the Michigan Intergenerational Network. The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young? An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. The Powerpoint file, MIN-IntergenerationalTransferPrograms-30jul2013 is available here. An overview of the talk below the fold:
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Conference: WordCamp Chicago, 2013
Attended and participated in the two-day WordCamp Chicago, 2013 in Chicago. Highlight of the conference was an open Q-and-A with Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and co-founder of Automattic.
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Conference: HighEd Web Michigan 2013
I attended the HighEd Web conference in Flint, Michigan, May 2013.
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Conference: Higher Learning Commission, 2013
I attended and participated in the Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference in Chicago, April, 2013, including the AQIP Colloquium.
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Cliffs, Ceilings, Bombs and Explosions: When Metaphors Go Bad – Presentation to Jill Reglin’s Classes
I presented this presentation to Jill Reglin’s writing classes today. The students will use this as background information for their writing assignments. CliffsCeilingsBombs-metaphorsGoneBad-20130130