For those of us who aren't economists working in D.C. this segment helps to explain how the economy works in ways we aren't aware of. One goal that is mentioned is to remove the burden that failed banks' and corporations' risky bets have made. The shift removed public dollars (our tax dollars) and places it back on the institutions that made the risky bets in the first place.

http://pancheetah.podbean.com/e/discussion-on-wsj-segment-on-banking-the-economy-and-congress-july-2014/

THE INEQUALITY GAP IS TAKING ITS MORE OF A TOLL THAN YOU THOUGHT -- You might want to trade in your echo chamber (of doom) and take a closer look.
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The life you can pay for as one of the well-heeled anointed looks nothing like the lot tossed to everyone else: living in a home you own on some upscale cul-de-sac with your hybrid car and organic, grass-fed food sure beats renting (and driving) wrecks and subsisting on processed junk from supermarket shelves. But there’s a related, looming inequity so brutal it could provoke violent class war: the growing gap between the longevity haves and have-nots.

NOTE: I just moved from out of a neighborhood with a life expectancy 5 years lower than the one I'm in now. I've had two hybrid cars, eat organic food, live in a new green healthy home, have health insurance 'up the wazoo,' oh yea that PhD, and more.
You can hate me, come up with one of those rationalizations I hear so often from students ("It doesn't matter how much you make") but the question I have is, when are you going to do something about the growing inequity that has you in its sights? Young and old all around us are getting involved, even if it means a tiny slice of activism, like voting, getting more informed or joining an organization that really (and I mean REALLY) represents your self-interest. 
http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/will-new-drugs-mean-the-rich-live-to-120-and-the-poor-die-at-60/

Psychology 1105 Welcome and Tour

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This video shows you how Blackboard is used in our online course and provides some additional information which will help you determine if this is the right course for you.

New Mexico State Senator Dede Feldman Delivers a Health Care Reality Check

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We expect and hope that by the time our children reach school age they know their abcs and have mastered the rudiments of counting. As mature adults much more is expected of us. We're expected to know the basic facts that will affect ourselves, our families and our communities. It's time for all of us to face the facts about health care costs and to distinguish facts from fantasy and truth from rumor.

New Mexico State Senator Dede Feldman Delivers a Health Care Reality Check

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We expect and hope that our school age children know their abcs and can count to ten. MOre is expected of us as adults; as mature adults we're expected to know the basic facts that will affect ourselves, our families and our communities. It's time for all of us to face the facts about health care costs and further to distinguish the facts from fantasy and truthy from rumor.

Using Camtasia to make comments on student papers

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I read a comment by Michael Wilder about using Camtasia this way and tried it out. See Michael's work on his blog and website at Web: http://faculty.unlv.edu/wilderm/ Blog: http://tinyurl.com/d7j4be (Twitter: michaelwilder )

More Moodle -2

After the initial Moodle exploration I decided to continue exploring by picking features I use and describing my experience with them. Ninehub came back up but was down for 4 days. This was frustrating. It also would have been disastrous if it had happened at exam time. I'm going to look into signing on with Classroom Revolution next.

In the meantime I continued exploring moodle on ninehub and the next feature I looked at was 'course backup.' My developing course is still small so backup time was really fast. It also was easy to use. There are numerous settings that allow you to backup very little or a lot of your course. I appreciated this since backing up courses on other platforms can be cumbersome. I was able to both save the .zip file on the ninehub site and also download for archiving onto my computer.

The one aspect of backup that still have to explore is restoring a backup. I'll report on that later.