Friday, May 6, 2011
The Trinity Eco Tourist Lodge
We will share our business plan for this endeavor and for the concession stands for the Trinity Wave park with City Councilmann David Neumann when he visits us on the week of the 16th - at that time, we will refer to him as newly elected Councilman David Neumann, because he will have won the elections on May 14th.
Video from Video Conference with UT Law Student Rachel Stone Regarding Students wanting to open concession stands in the new Trinity Wave Park
Heather K. Way, Director, Community Development Clinic, University of Texas School of Law asked her student Rachel Stone to research and present her findings to my students on the possibility of my graduating seniors to open concession stands in the new Trinity River Wave Park. We were not able to meet with Ms. Stone until during her final exam week, so we are very thankful for her diligence and thoroughness in researching the many City of Dallas rules and regulations involved with such an operation. Ms. Stone clarified that the current laws do not allow the setting up of tents and tables in the Trinity Wave Park. She gives us, however, the name of an attorney that very much like to assist us in this endeavor. Professor Way has also promised that she wants very much for her students from the Community Development Clinic work with my classes on our various South Dallas initiatives once the new school year comes around.
Click here to see the Powerpoint that goes with the video.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Alibaba is a business in a box
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Increasing Velocity of the Business Cycle
- Mr. Dell attributes the increase in business velocity to what 4 reductions in the business cycle?
- What developments in technology allowed for this change? Explain.
After answering questions, we had a class discussion over this.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
My Alibaba Buyer Contact
Copy This Text To Send To Buyer:
To Translate The Text:
- go to this page http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
- paste the text in to the left side of the translation box.
- Do not type in A. Maceo Smith in to the blank before High School, or it may translate strangely (you will type this in later).
- Do replace the blank with the product description.
- Note how carefully I chose the words to avoid any translation mistakes; I was also very careful not to misspell words.
- The left box's translation is set to English by default - leave it this way. Above the right hand box, choose the language that your buyer speaks; you may need to research the language for the buyer's country. If the buyer is from China, choose Chinese Simplified. If the buyer is from Taiwan, use Chinese traditional.
To Get Class Credit For This Activity:
Still in Alibaba,
- Click My Alibaba
- Click on Message Center
- Click on the "Sent" folder
- Click on and open the email that you sent
- Make sure that the alibaba window is fairly small (not full screen)
- With your cursor on the alibaba page, on your keyboard hold down the key and click the button (on the top left side of your keyboard) - you will not see anything happen
- Open the Paint program (Start - All Programs - Accessories - MS Paint and paste
- Save the file to your desktop as your name and file type .jpg
- Log into blogspot
- Open a new post
- Click to insert a picture
- Browse to the .jpg file
- Title your post "First Inquiry To Buyer of _____ in _______ country."
Questions to ask buyer in a follow up email
- What will you use this product for?
- How many of these items do you want to buy each time?
- How often do you want to purchase these items?
- How much are you willing to pay for these items? If you have a range of how much you pay, is the difference of low and high prices based on condition or something else?
- How do you require the items to be packaged? (boxes, wood crates, pallets)
- Do you require the items to be shipped by air or ocean?
- Do you require the goods be shipped with a specific freight company?
- Do your suppliers usually issue you a letter of credit? What terms do you expect on the letter of credit?
- Are there any import restrictions in your country for that item?
- Are there any import taxes on this item? If so, will you pay for these?
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Why does my "new post" or "edit post" page forever loading? As a result I can not post anything new in my blog! - ANSWER
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Export of Used Goods Project
From the Alibaba home page click the link "Buying Links". Type the word "used" in the search box so that you can see what used items people around the world are willing to pay money for.
Choose one item that you think you might be able to find for free here in the US that you could sell to an overseas company that is looking for that good (buyers on this page are only there because they want to buy something). Students, pick one item, click on the link and write down all the information about what the buyer requires and their contact info. Only choose an ad for a good (an item) that the buyer wants to buy that is available in the US; you might choose to sell an item that you have laying around your house like an old cell phone, you may have seen the item laying around (like old tires ), or you may have seen the item listed on craigslist or freecycle.com. Choose an item that is neither ethically nor legally problematic (some chemical compounds that are asked for on Alibaba are illegal to mine in the US).
Turn in your product choice to me and we will discuss your choice.
Copy This Text To Send To Buyer:
To Translate The Text:
- go to this page http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
- paste the text in to the left side of the translation box.
- Do not type in A. Maceo Smith in to the blank before High School, or it may translate strangely (you will type this in later).
- Do replace the blank with the product description.
- Note how carefully I chose the words to avoid any translation mistakes; I was also very careful not to misspell words.
- The left box's translation is set to English by default - leave it this way. Above the right hand box, choose the language that your buyer speaks; you may need to research the language for the buyer's country. If the buyer is from China, choose Chinese Simplified. If the buyer is from Taiwan, use Chinese traditional.
To Get Class Credit For This Activity:
Still in Alibaba,
- Click My Alibaba
- Click on Message Center
- Click on the "Sent" folder
- Click on and open the email that you sent
- Make sure that the alibaba window is fairly small (not full screen)
- With your cursor on the alibaba page, on your keyboard hold down the key and click the button (on the top left side of your keyboard) - you will not see anything happen
- Open the Paint program (Start - All Programs - Accessories - MS Paint and paste
- Save the file to your desktop as your name and file type .jpg
- Log into blogspot
- Open a new post
- Click to insert a picture
- Browse to the .jpg file
- Title your post "First Inquiry To Buyer of _____ in _______ country."
Questions to ask buyer in a follow up email
- What will you use this product for?
- How many of these items do you want to buy each time?
- How often do you want to purchase these items?
- How much are you willing to pay for these items? If you have a range of how much you pay, is the difference of low and high prices based on condition or something else?
- How do you require the items to be packaged? (boxes, wood crates, pallets)
- Do you require the items to be shipped by air or ocean?
- Do you require the goods be shipped with a specific freight company?
- Do your suppliers usually issue you a letter of credit? What terms do you expect on the letter of credit?
- Are there any import restrictions in your country for that item?
- Are there any import taxes on this item? If so, will you pay for these?
Friday, March 11, 2011
The difference between Democrats and Republicans view of Economics
I the US, the Republican Party is strongly on the side of the government's laissez faire relation with business. The Democratic Party is more concerned with protecting the people from corporate greed. Which way the pendulum swings depends on who is in power. In November 2010, the Republicans campaigned on reducing the size of the government. Many Americans who are out of work and are in debt, rallied around the Republican call for reducing the size of government in order to reduce the size of US debt and helped the Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives. Democrats (who still hold the majority in the Senate) prefer to reduce the size of the Government by eliminating redundancies and streamlining processes; they are against cutting social programs that help the less fortunate and regulation of business in protection of the people.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
How to keep up with your partner's and your classmates posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Bell Ringer Question: Multinational's use of GDP
What do you think the answer is to this question of how a multinational company uses the economic measurement of GDP to help it choose between two countries to build a new manufacturing plant in.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Wants, Needs and Scarce Resources
Friday, February 25, 2011
Installation instructions from those who received a webcam
After restarting your computer, click Start> Programs> Philips> - then click on, hold and drag the icon for the Funcam to your desktop to make a short cut. Double click the icon and your program opens.
Click file> capture to choose capture video or record audio. Clcik record and the program asks you to choose a place to save the file and what name to give it; choose a place that is easy to find like your desktop.
To use the camera to speak to your Australian partner, you must install Skype on your computer; Download it from http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-0.html?query=skype&platformSelect=Windows&tag=srch&searchtype=downloads&filterName=platform%3DWindows&filter=platform%3DWindows and follow the instructions. The installation will have you create an account for Sype. If you decide to use another computer later, you will have to install Skype on that computer, but you will use the same Skype account.
Because Skype is not like a telephone which has a ringer to tell you that someone is calling, you will need to set a time to meet with your partner on skype. Just exchange Skype usernames with them. When you log on to Skype, you can find them by their username. The only plausible time to do this is after you get out of school, they will be coming to school. Find out what time they are in Mr. Williams' class and can speak to you.
There is a limit to the size of the video that you can upload. I just made a 23 minute video that I cut in half and uploaded. You have to download Windows Movie Maker. From Movie Maker, click file> import and browse to your recording. This puts your video up in the workspace; you just need to drag your video on to the timeline. Save the file as “full video”. Listen to the video and find a good place to cut it; just pause the video and hit the cut button (on the right). Delete the second part of the video. Save the file as “video project part 1”, then click file> publish move> on my computer. Then go back to the “full video” and delete the first half. Save the second part in both the project format and the published movie. Watch where you save the movie file. Its file extension is .wmv – these are the files that you upload to your blog. You can put both parts in your one post, but each video has to be small.Below is the link to download Movie Maker for Windows XP
Video taken directly from the camera is in .avi format which is not condensed like Movie Maker files, so only a very very short video from the camera can be posted directly to a blog.
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Movie-Maker-Windows-XP/3000-13631_4-10165075.html?tag=mncol;1
The link for Windows Vista is http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Movie-Maker-Windows-Vista/3000-13631_4-10729231.html?tag=mncol;2
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Due Friday February 18th - Create your blog
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Academic Goals For February 7th - 18th
Due February 11th - Vocabulary Over Economic Scarcity: Needs and Wants
Due February 18th - Read Chapter One & Choose two of the four activities
- Students will create a collage of needs and wants. On one side of the paper they will cut out and paste pictures of their individual needs and on the other side they will paste their wants. The collage should describe the nature of economics. Discuss the relevance of the subject to class members, and point out how they may benefit from an understanding of the subject.
- Students will write a letter to their congressman explaining how scarcity affects their lives.
- Student will take an online reality check of how much money they will need to support their lifestyle on http://jumpstart.org/reality-check-page1.html. Write a short essay - does the educational and skill level you plan to achieve allow you to live the life style that you want to live?
- Think about a mall where you shop. Name examples of business that compete with each other. Compare the methods they use to attract customers. Why can you choose which store you go to? Can you open your own store? Why? What would you need to open your own store? What would happen if the government took control of the mall and they allowed there to be only one shoe store that sells shoes that the government designed and sell them at the price the government says to, and you can not shop anywhere else, nor can you open your own store.