Category: economics
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Add Kindle MOBI eBook to WordPress Online Store
The past few evenings I’ve been adding all my eBooks (9 at this point) to a new online store I’ve created on PlayingWithMedia.com, using WordPress and iThemes Exchange. The reason my total number of eBooks jumped so fast was my decision last month to start offering individual chapters of “Mapping Media” for sale as $2.99…
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Distressed Over the Rising Costs of College (and other things)
If you are not distressed over the rising costs of college in the United States, you are not paying attention. When I worked at the College of Education at Texas Tech University from 2001 to 2006, my first and WONDERFUL boss (Fred Hartmeister) used to compare the skyrocketing costs of a graduate course during the…
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Sheldon Whitehouse responds to Jim Inhofe on Climate Change
Sadly, against the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community, our Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe continues to believe and argue that climate change is a liberal conspiracy concocted to trick US voters. This position is false and ridiculous. Last week on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse responded to Senator Inhofe’s…
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Tornado Season is Here But Don’t Look For an Oklahoma City Public Storm Shelter
Spring has sprung in central Oklahoma at last, and that means tornado season is here. This past week we had our first set of storms in the northern part of our state, and I’m sure many more will come in the weeks ahead. Technically, tornados can form any month of the year, but statistically the…
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Why Our Family Ditched AT&T and Joined T-Mobile: Huge Monthly Savings
I’ve been an AT&T customer for years, but the rising costs of AT&T’s wireless charges for our family combined with T-Mobile’s simple and VASTLY less expensive family wireless plans have enticed us to switch over. T-Mobile’s 4G and LTE wireless data support in Oklahoma City for the iPhone is the other main reason we decided…
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T-Mobile and Verizon Hotspot Mobile Data Shootout
It’s official: I’m the 4th and final cell phone toting member of our family to ditch AT&T and switch over to T-Mobile. In upcoming days I’ll post more about this, and include a photo of our entire family in new pink T-Mobile tshirts which just arrived in the mail today for the occasion. We’re going…
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Hacker Cases Highlight Need for Greater Personal Account and Information Security
The more we rely on userIDs and passwords to verify our identity online, the more susceptible we are to attacks by people who, for different reasons, want to harm us or take control of our digital accounts. Several recent cases of hacked accounts highlight the need for greater personal account security and information security overall.…
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Academic Publishing and Relevance
Since finishing my PhD I’ve applied for five different tenure-track faculty positions. I’ve been invited to interview for just one of those. I may apply for another position sometime down the road, but I’m currently very happy teaching 4th & 5th graders as a STEM teacher, occasionally teaching teachers as an educational consultant/speaker, and regularly…
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Podcast412: Reflections on Prisons, Schools, Poverty and Families in Oklahoma
This Christmas Eve 2013 audio podcast is a recorded conversation with Shelly and Wesley Fryer, reflecting on their recent experiences on December 9th with the “Redeeming the Family” outreach ministry at Mable Bassett Women’s Prison in McCloud, Oklahoma. Redeeming the Family is an organization serving the innocent children of incarcerated parents in Oklahoma through the…
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That Camera Gear is SO 2007!
This weekend I put together a presentation / slideshow for my STEM students I titled, “Visual Notetaking and Dreaming Big.” In the presentation this week in class, I’m sharing with my students about my 2007 trip to MacWorld in San Francisco, when I saw Steve Jobs announce the iPhone to the world. Look closely at…