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For help with how to use the web and social media for education and business - http://jnthweb.caI’m attending the PBWorks Camp for teachers, and this is my homework for my second week, a screencast made using Jing on how Styles in MS Word can help in writing long pieces such as academic papers or business reports:
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I re-did this a number of times, dealing with -
- fitting what I wanted to say to the time available
- figuring out what to leave out
- making sure my set-up worked
- reducing the size of my Word screen so I could fit everything into a smaller frame
- stumbling while I was recording
I really like learning from screen captures myself, so I enjoyed creating one
All the brouhaha about financial game playing and our perilous financial system has brought a question to my mind: why do we talk about wages with percentages?
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If someone, A, making $20,000. gets a 5% raise, that’s $1000.00 dollars and they now make
$21,000.
If someone, B, making $200,000. gets the same percentage, 5%, they get $10,000, and now make
$210,000.
Both get 5%, which sounds equal, but, in fact, A got 10% of what B got, and B got %1000 of what A received, or half of A’s salary.
In plain language,
B received $9000. more than A.
So a year later they each get a 5% raise again.
A started at $21,000. this time and got $1050. which gave A a total of
$22,050.
B started at $210,000. this time and got $10,500. which gave B
$220,500.
This time
B received $9,450. more than A,
that is, at the same percentage rate,
the actual difference in money increases by $450.
and each time they get another 5% raise, the difference will increase.
The rich get richer, faster.
Here’s my refined Querulous Question #1:
Why do we use percentages to talk about wage increases when that only increases the disparity every time? B gets increasingly more than A, so the difference between their wages keeps increasing. Why don’t we just say what the actual numbers are?
I’d really like to know if it’s just habit and convenience or if there’s an actual, communication-based reason for this.
Dealing with copyright can be confusing. In case you don’t know about CreativeCommons, or want a quick visual review, I found this through Dave’s Whiteboard
more about “Wanna Work Together?“, posted with vodpod
You might want to check out http://creativecommons.org/videos/ccsearch-screencast too.













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