Category: economics
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Podcast319: Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle by Dean Mantz and Brian Richter (PodStock2009)
This podcast is a recording of Dean Mantz and Brian Richter’s presentation on May 2, 2009, at the PodStock 2009 conference titled, “Integrating Podcasting into the Classroom Using Moodle.” The session description was: How you use podcasting in the classroom-Integrating them into the class using moodle. This will include a quick lesson on how to…
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Is the Obama Administration Dooming Us to HyperInflation?
According to today’s English WikiPedia entry, “hyperinflation” in economics is: …inflation that is very high or “out of control”, a condition in which prices increase rapidly as a currency loses its value. Definitions used by the media vary from a cumulative inflation rate over three years approaching 100% to “inflation exceeding 50% a month.” In…
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Podcast315: Exemplary Educational Entrepreneurship in Higher Education – The Fort Hays State University Connection to China by Dr. Edward Hammond
This podcast is a recording of the luncheon presentation by Dr. Edward Hammond, President of Fort Hays State University, at the Rotary Club of Manhattan, Kansas, on April 30, 2009. Dr. Hammond shared the extraordinary story of Ft Hays State University and their relationship to the government as well as educational institutions in China. He…
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AT&T billing finally figured out I don’t work for them anymore
This is a slightly HUGE increase bill in my monthly home phone bill: From $1.17 per month to $215.65! I resigned from AT&T (as a state “education advocate”) back in July of 2008. As an employee, I received free local phone service with all the optional services / bells and whistles. Because we live outside…
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Go Green! Go Electric! (A Film on the Fly! Earth Day Video)
Today I took two of my children to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the Miles Automotive Group where we learned about electric vehicles and shot our Film on the Fly / Earth Day cell phone video, “Go Green! Go Electric!” The description for this video which we included on YouTube was: The children have the answer! Tomorrow…
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WiFi Connectivity Options at Starbucks, AT&T hotspots, and Rural Broadband over Power Lines
My wife is a much more regular coffee drinker than I am, so it seems a bit ironic I was the first person in our family to purchase a “Starbucks Gold card.” The card can be used as a gift/money card for Starbucks coffee and gives you a 10% discount on purchases, but the feature…
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The Tyranny of Oil, The Danger of Unregulated Markets, Power, and Populism
This week I listened to the hour and a half lecture “The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It” by Antonia Juhasz, which she shared at the University of Chicago on November 20, 2008. I found this podcast because I’m subscribed to the outstanding University of…
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Join The New Energy Army’s Virtual March on Washington Today
We’ve got a continuing energy crisis in our world, and it is important we each take action to change the economic and political course we’ve been on for 40+ years which has led to our condition of foreign oil dependence. Today, April 1, 2009, is an excellent day to take concrete action with millions of…
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Podcast308: A Long Overdue Personal and Professional Life Update (March 2009)
If you listened to Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train, you might have wondered just want sort of disruptive changes were taking place in my life (this past January) which I was only able to reference obliquely in that podcast. In this 40 minute podcast recorded in the car this past week driving up…
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Just how many electronic whiteboards are school leaders buying?
According to the SMART Technologies press release “SMART’s 2008 sales more than double its nearest competition” from 13 February 2009: Futuresource noted that 557,000 interactive whiteboards were shipped in 2008, a 32 percent increase over 2007. More than two million interactive whiteboards are now installed worldwide, and the product category continues to exhibit strong growth.…