I would like to share with you 3 news items that I found noteworthy in the past few months. 1. Free credit freezes started on September 21st Starting September 21st, a new federal law came into effect. This new law regulates that we now can freeze and unfreeze credit files without paying fees. It is […]
New Web Resources In The Field of Personal Finance
This blog post provides information about four resources for financial information. Next Gen Personal Finance This website offers a wealth of hands-on ideas for teaching personal finance topics. I use this website by picking a topic on the curriculum site and look over the lesson guides. These guides contain a quick overview of hands-on activities, […]
News from the field of personal finance
1. Credit card companies are no longer requiring a signature on purchases At the end of April, large credit card issuers such as, American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa, will no longer require customer signatures to complete credit card purchases. Nevertheless, retailers may continue asking you to sign. We can expect that the handwritten signature […]
Personal finance blogs (and beyond): Blog that I read regularly
Blogs are a great way of getting new ideas and staying up to date on topics of interest – our LiveSmartOhio blog certainly falls into this category! There are also a few personal finance blogs that I read carefully, and often use in my student teaching. I wanted to share three of them with you […]
How to use active learning to teach (the often dry, touchy and technical) personal finance topics
I am teaching two undergraduate courses in our OSU financial planning track this semester and have been thinking about how to best teach personal finance topics. They are often dry, technical, and uncomfortable. I learned about several new resources, books and websites, at a professional development event at OSU last December, where the speaker, HDFS […]
Financial tips at the end of the year
The end of the calendar year is a perfect time to review our financial lives of the past year and make plans for the new year. I have used the following four websites in my research and for my undergraduate personal finance course at OSU, and organized them into four steps. I hope you find […]