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Getting into the Blogging Spirit
13th September 2009
A new school year and for their first assignment my students have been asked to blog on any topic of their choice providing it has a business / economics / financial theme. For new students in particular I find that it encourages them to develop a narrative. The new Open University blogging module for Moodle works well. I will showcase some of the blogs over the coming days - but students have been writing on an eclectic range of topics, among them:
Mature banking - Italian banks and the parmesan cheese makers Malaysia and the palm oil boom Trade in the 1930s Galaticos and the European football transfer market Financial crisis one year on The Setanta disaster Do our Newspapers have a future? Market record of 75 million Euros for televisions in Muslim countries during Ramdan The Opportunity Costs of Football Transfers Neuroeconomics and the perverse effects of anti-smoking campaigns I’m out ... the collapse of SpinVox Power to Africa - better government needed to make investments worthwhile The US Bailout Plan: ‘A Dagger in the Heart of Capitalism?’ Why Low-Quality Stuff Sells
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.