Movie Monday: Battle of the Vid Apps

As I progress through my Ph.D., I keep my 📱iPhone📱 on ✈️Airplane Mode📳 more frequently, so I don’t 📴call, text or use wifi.

• D is for: DISPO * Dissertation * hopeful Doctor🎓
• D DON’Ts are for: Disturbances * Distractions🚫

While I ✨concentrate, I still play background 👂🏽noise, but I don’t always rely on my online📻 🎧music or 🎬videos. Sometimes I also stray away from my own played-out 💽collection…

My DVDs🎥 and digital videos📹 to the rescue! 👌🏽

During my study sessions📚 or school road 🚘trips or any foreseeable 🚀flights, I’d prefer to play a movie straight from my phone without needing an online signal, like some video application programs promise.

Not all of them have worked 🔇offline, though…

M-GO (e.g., 💃🏻Selena🎤)

• Pros: can play online
• Cons: loads⏳ and returns to 🏡home🏠 screen without playing at all offline 👎

 Vimeo (e.g., Everything Before Us)

• Pros: sometimes plays online and offline
• Cons: load delays or no-plays from some computer browsers (I have 🌎Internet🌎 🌏Explorer, Mozilla🔥 🐺Firefox, Google Chrome, 🍎Apple🍏 Safari) and phone☎️ app 😁

Amazon Instant Video (e.g., 👙Toned Up)

• Pros: always plays = 😅happy camper⛺️ (hey, maybe I even can watch while camping without wireless connection!)
• Cons: none whatsoever … Sharp, beautiful motion pictures on the screen every single time ~ no loading shown!  👏🏽

After several attempts for the first two apps, I’m still not satisfied with them. Fortunately, Amazon‘s app has consistently come to not disappoint! 👊🏽

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ConGRADulations, 🎓Class of 2015!!!🎉

Throwback: School Portraits of yours truly from Pre-K-12th Grade

My H.S. Grad: Abilene Cooper, Class of 1999

 

 For 🔔high schoolers, I’m imparting advice💭 that worked to my advantage when I prepared for college🏤 and throughout my career:

• College Applications📑
• College Internship💼
• College Bucket List📋

Additional Articles by Educator Elaine

For your health as a student:

• Healthy Lifestyle
• Stress Reduction
• Organized Desk

For studying and writing plus speaking :

• Note Mastery
• Writing Benefits
• *Speech Pros*

For learning:

• Intrapersonal Style
• Technology Enhancement

For student-athletes:

• Athlete Expectations

For exercise enthusiasts:

• Fitness Degree

For electives:

• Unique Courses

For graduate students and researchers:

• Ethnography Programs
• Dissertation Hypotheses
• Online References

Bachelor of Arts in Communication, McMurry University, 2003

I’ve been beyond blessed to have taught college students who were valedictorians (No. 1), salutatorians (No. 2) and top-ranked out of their class ~ two during this graduation season alone who are speaking🎤 at their commencement:

• Student Body President (female 💪🏽powerlifter) from last 🌞summer🌼
• Valedictorian (state 🏁championship🏆 🏈football🏉 player) from this past 🍀spring🌷

Master of Arts in Communication, Angelo State University, 2006

We present … The Graduates!!!👏🏽 {☝🏽️GOD-willing🙏🏽, I’ll walk👟 for my doctoral degree}