Non-LCC Activities

WordPress Meetup Detroit – Feb 2015

Community Service, Non-LCC Activities, presentation, Presentations

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

    to

  • United Way – Campus Martius

    660 Woodward Ave. Suite 300, Detroit, MI (map)

  • Price: $5.00/per person

    Refund policy

  • If you make slide presentations with PowerPoint, Keynote, Slideshare, or other presentation software, WordPress can do much more than just provide a download-the-ppt link for interested readers.

    There are several methods for embedding and displaying slide presentations in WordPress posts or pages. Some methods allow you to easily embed a presentation. Others go further and enable you to use WordPress to deliver live, full screen slide presentations without using PowerPoint or Keynote. You can even write, edit, and create a slide presentation within WordPress using the Post editor.

    Jim Luke will demo and provide instructions on how you can easily use WordPress for slide presentations. He’ll also share tips for how to choose the right method. Many of these methods work for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress installations.

To register go to the Meetup Site.

The demo, basic info, instructions, etc are available here at a new post I created at Malartools.malartu.org on how to connect Powerpoint-style presentations with WordPress.

Busting the Medicare “Crisis” Myth – Again

Community Service, Economics, Econproph.com, Non-LCC Activities, Presentations

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 intended to cut benefits for seniors. The reality is more complex and less fearful.

The public is welcome. From the announcement:

SCAN – WAYNE COUNTY
JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT MEETING
THURSDAY, January 23, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Brush Park Manor
2900 Brush Street
Detroit, MI

Please RSVP to Annette Brown at abrown2@spectrumretirement.com
Cost: SCAN Wayne Members – No Charge; Guests – $10.00
Topic: Busting the Medicare Myths, A Reality Based Look at Medicare Finances
Presented by, Jim Luke, Professor of Economics
Breakfast will be served
Free Parking

The Powerpoint:

[gview file=”https://jimluke.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SCAN-Wayne-Medicare-23jan2014.ppt” save=”1″]

 

 

Busting the Medicare Myths

Community Service, Economics, Econproph.com, Non-LCC Activities, Presentations

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 less fearful.

The talk will be at Madonna University in Livonia, MI at 9:30am.  The public is welcome.

The Powerpoint is both downloadable and viewable here.  Click on the graphs in the Powerpoint to go to the original sources of the graphs.

 

TEDx Lansing 2012

Community Service, Non-LCC Activities, Presentations, TV, Web

An opportunity I’m pretty excited about.  I’ve been invited to speak at TEDx Lansing.  From the college’s announcement:

LCCTV is once again teaming up with organizers of TEDxLansing to live stream the upcoming event featuring more than a dozen presenters including one of Lansing Community College’s own Jim Luke.

When: April 13th 9am-2pm

Where: Washington Street Armory

Live Stream: www.lcc.edu/tv/watch

Buy Tickets/More Info: www.tedxlansing.com

Many of you are familiar with TED talks and their mission to promote Ideas Worth Spreading with a focus on technology, entertainment and design. At TEDx Lansing local thought leaders are handpicked from the community and are given 20 minutes to share their idea, inspiration or research.

TEDxLansing offers 11 speakers who explore creativity in its myriad forms, including filmmaking, engineering, advocacy and zombies. The event will include performers as well as TED Talk videos designed to spark deep conversation and connection.

Here’s the lineup for this year, it’s a diverse cast of characters including LCC economics professor, Jim Luke talking about education and technology, an idea further influenced by his role with LCC’s Learn Forward campaign.

His presentation is called “Will Plato Hack the iPAD?”

If you’re going to watch the live streaming on Friday, I’m scheduled to speak at 10:43 am to 11:00.

Malartu, Inc.

Non-LCC Activities , ,

Malartu, Inc, the non-profit I helped start (separate from any LCC activities and on my own time), has gotten some national recognition. (the picture is stock photo, not me).

Economics Professor Starts Designing Tools for Faculty That Meet Their Needs

By Tanya Roscorla
on November 21, 2011 Policy

While vendors make plenty of technology platforms and services that serve students, most of them don’t meet professors’ needs, according to the experience of Jim Luke, an economics professor from Lansing College.

They require a major time investment and make professors’ jobs harder, he said.

“Just in 10 years the amount of time and work it takes to be a good teacher has just really skyrocketed, and a good bit of it is because of the software and the systems. They are not friendly and easy to use.”

While billions of dollars pour into campus enterprise technology and services for students, few people look at the teacher’s job. And few people create tools for teachers that they need.

For these reasons, Luke decided to start a nonprofit called Malartu Inc. While projects exist in the early stages, he hopes that the tools he envisions will help professors be more productive and effective.

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