30 Days to Understanding the Bible

I just started reading 30 Days to Understanding the Bible by Max Anders, The book helps anyone to learn the actual structure of how the Bible was written and who wrote which parts of God’s Holy Word. The book is setup for you to read a chapter in 15 minutes. It also includes great exercises to learn the different parts of the Bible and who’s in it and where specific events took place.

The author covers the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He breaks down books of the Bible into various themes and doctrines found throughout the Old and New Testaments. The author uses and shares about his experiences as an analogy for learning how the Bible was constructed and how God’s truths can be applied to our daily lives.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever ~ Hebrews 13:8. Amen!

Summer Teaching in Prison

Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering – Hebrews 13:3 NIV.

As an adjunct professor, it is hard to find summer teaching jobs at local colleges. Because unless your tenured teacher the availability of working is slim to none. However, there is one nonprofit organization that is in need of teachers every semester throughout the year. In fact, you are almost always guaranteed to have students and less likely to the class won’t be cancelled due to low enrollment.

I find it an absolute privilege to teach for Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prisons in Ossining, NY. The incarcerated students need education, as it boosts their morale while inside. It gives the a sense of purpose to be better person while providing the necessary knowledge and technical skills to re-enter society. I challenge you to step forward to teach your major inside a local correctional facility. You will find that giving back so others can gain education is very rewarding.

In Hebrews 13:3, God reminds us to remember those in prison, so this is why, I teach there. I am super excited this summer, as I will teaching at a correctional facility both inside and remotely. The online course is a first for with them. I am very honored to be selected by Hudson Link and NY State Department of Corrections to teach this way. So pray the technology works and that the online class is a huge success, as it is the wave of the future for all.

Media Theory Week 15

This is the last week for my Media Theory course. Students will continue to present their research projects. In class, we will be discussing more about the FB experiment and be analyzing quantitative stats as to how televised football games are portrayed in the media. For their final exam, each student will be writing a course reflection paper to show their understanding of course content.

Key take aways: The textbook was great at explaining key media theories and qualitative and quantitative methods used in media research. Students learned how to apply the course content by completing a research project. Overall, the class was able to comprehend how media can be manipulated to suit one’s culture, economic, or political agenda.

The students now have the knowledge how to recognize when these communication research methods are being used in media advertising. They also understand the ethical issues and global ramifications that can occur with fake news in today’s various modes of media. Thus, resulting in educated students who will seek to share scholarly truth and who are capable of communicating and understanding what is fair, honest, and balanced news media.

Media Theory Week 12

This week my Media Theory class reviewed more quantitive methods like experiments and statistics. I covered an introduction to basics of statistics such as: mean, mode, median, range, standard dispersement, frequency distribution and variance. For discussion, the students will be sharing the various media ethical issues by reviewing the Facebook (FB) Experiment. In June of 2014, FB knowingly changed 700,000 users accounts by feeding them either positive or negative posts without the user’s knowledge. As you can imagine this brought about a public outraged of having their newsfeeds manipulated by FB’s algorithms.

The group activity included asking students to explore the amount of television vs. commercials that children see in a month or year in America compared to different countries. students quickly realized that one’s culture, economic status, and the country’s political system can contribute to the amount of ads and tv shows children end up watching daily. For homework, students were assigned to complete their preliminary bibliography for their research project and to start writing a course reflection paper about what they learned through the semester.

Media Theory Week 11

My Media Theory class will be covering quantitative methods this week, which include content analysis and surveys. The in-class group activity was to compare 1995 comics to 2015 comics and share the differences. Students were asked to examine the comic strip’s content of the setting, the plot, the facial expressions of characters, types of speech bubbles along with what shapes were used to show movement in a scene, and lastly the context of the language used. One main issue with content analysis is knowing how to define an operational topic like humor or violence, as everyone may interpret and understand it differently.

Next, we will examine how surveys can be used to draw quantitative conclusions. For homework, each student will be creating a survey of questions for their own research papers. The students will be asked to analyze and share their results within their final paper and present stats along with a conclusion to the class. Students are finishing up their brief prospectus and starting their bibliography for their final research papers.