Robert Ranstadler • 12th February 2025

Dad's DIY: Replacing an Auto Battery

Today's DIY project will be broken down into four steps. First, we'll cover some basic tools you'll need to get the job done. Second, we'll figure out how to tell a good battery from a bad one. Next, I'll show you how to remove a bad battery and select a proper replacement. Finally, we'll install a new battery and get back on the road.

Delta County Airport • 10th January 2025

Sample Articulate Rise 360 Course (Compressed PDF)

This course provides Delta County Airport (ESC) Airfield Operations personnel initial and annual 14 CFR Part 139 training in accordance with FAR (Federal Aviation Regulation) 139.303(c)1: Airport Familiarization, Including Marking, Lighting & Signs.

Delta County Airport • 30th August 2024

FAR Part 139 Wildlife Hazard Management Lesson

This lesson trains Operations personnel to perform duties outlined in FAR 139.337, Wildlife Hazard Management Program (WHMP), relative to Delta County Airport (ESC). It satisfies recurrent training requirements that must be completed every 12 Consecutive Calendar Months (CCM). All learners will demonstrate proficiency in the above topic area by a method selected and documented through the use of a summative assessment or evaluation.

Delta County Airport • 17th May 2024

Complete Airport Security Plan Proposal

I am writing on behalf of the Delta County Airport Advisory Board to ask that you please consider and forward for approval, to the Delta County Board of Commissioners, the enclosed proposal. The Airport anticipates its current airline operator... to permanently up=gauge aircraft to capacities larger than 61 seats, which will require the development of a complete Airport Security Plan (ASP).

Delta County Airport • 13th May 2024

Delta County Airport Fuel Prospectus

This report is being provided at the request of the Delta County Airport Advisory Board, in response to the Airport Management's growing concern about the material condition and serviceability of the airport's current Jet A refueler truck. Multiple subject-matter experts and industry representatives have recommended the airport replace the in-service truck as soon as possible.

Delta County Airport • 8th January 2024

FAR Part 139 Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) Training Curriculum

This curriculum is intended to supplement, but not replace, Part 139.319 recurrent training that local Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) personnel typically receive from regional or online providers over the course of a calendar year. It is designed to provide local ARFF personnel with airport-specific training requisite to performing their duties at Delta County Airport (Intenational Air Transport Association code: ESC).

Delta County Airport • 1st November 2023

Program/Project Management

In addition to his expertise in creating and delivering various training and curricula, Robert is also an accomplished program and project manager. This document is a self-generated inspection record he produced to correct program discrepancies, related to vehicle upkeep and maintenance, while serving as the Delta County Airport Manager.

Liberty University School of Education • 27th March 2023

The Impact of the Underuse of Digital Games in Social Studies Education

When it comes to digital games-based learning – specifically, regarding the use of digital games in the social sciences – education lags behind other major institutions, including government, business, and medicine. Although researchers, administrators, and educators have made many strides in the application and use of educational technology, advancements concerning digital games have been less consistent over the past 20 years. Thus, the aim of this literature review is to determine the impact of the underuse of digital games in Social Studies education.

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 19th November 2019

Disciplinary Literacy: A Cure for the Illiteracy Epidemic Plaguing America’s Public Schools?

This literature review aims to demystify the relative value of disciplinary literacy in education by answering a single question: Is disciplinary literacy a valid teaching and learning strategy for improving student reading and communication skills in public schools (K-12)?

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 16th August 2019

Sheltered Content Unit Plan: Founding Documents of the Republic of Texas

A sheltered content unit plan (SCUP) specifically designed to teach ELs (English Learners) about some of the founding documents that were instrumental in establishing the Republic of Texas. This content was created while enrolled in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Christian University.

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 9th August 2019

Teaching with Technology: Then, Now, and Beyond

Like technology, or perhaps because of it, American society is undeniably moving at breakneck speed... In of itself, technology is a broad term—one that could potentially lead an unwary author and his or her unassuming audience down a figurative rabbit hole of no return... [T]he present inquiry shall be confined to the role of technology in education over the last 30 years—a span of time characterized by the emergence and exponential growth of the Internet, which spurred unprecedented socioeconomic change and educational reform in the United States.

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 16th April 2019

Unit Plan: Seventh Grade Texas History – “Unit 3: Mexican Texas, 1821 – 1836”

The first of several unit and lesson plans Robert created while earning his Master's of Education in Curriculum & Instruction at Houston Christian University.

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 11th March 2019

Sample Parent Newsletter

Welcome to the 2021-22 school year and the inaugural issue of Harlon Henry Block Middle School’s 7th Grade Social Studies Parent Newsletter! This is a mock newsletter Robert created while attending the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Christian University (produced using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat).

COEBS, Houston Baptist University • 6th March 2019

Timeline of the Texas Revolution Infographic

A sample infographic Robert created while enrolled in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Christian University (produced using Cavna, MS Word, and Adobe Acrobat).

COEBS, Houston Christian University • 30th January 2019

Graphic Organizer: Transforming Learning with Technology

A sample graphic organizer Robert created while enrolled in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Houston Christian University (produced using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat).

The Digitorian • 29th October 2018

Digitorian Update: Places and Faces with Sophie Hammond and Pacific Atrocities Education

Ever wonder what it's like to research and write about the unsettling and more unsavory bits of past? Take a trip on the darker side of military history and 20th-century conflict, with Sophie Hammond and Pacific Atrocities Education, in this latest installment at The Digitorian. #MilitaryMondays #WWII #China

Announcements • 1st October 2018

Author's Update

Back in the saddle!

Announcements • 2nd July 2018

This Week's Featured Work: The Fegurson Rifle

​A brief look at the Ferguson Rifle​, a British long gun that almost won the American Revolution during the nascent years of the conflict.

Announcements • 26th June 2018

G. I. Jobs Article: 10 of the Fastest Growing Jobs in 2018

A tongue-in-cheek look at some of the best jobs for veterans, spouses, and transitioning service members in 2018. Featured along with some of my other articles on G. I. Jobs.com!

Announcements • 19th June 2018

It Lives!

As part of my new focus on making freelance writing a new full-time career, I decided to resurrect my WordPress blog that started it all, The Digitorian. Stop by and check out the new update​ today!