(Student) Blogging and the Fact of Other People
[This is a guest post by Rebecca J. Hogue (@rjhogue), a multi-affiliated (aka adjunct/contingent) online lecturer (University of Massachusetts-Boston, Brock University) and avid blogger. She teaches...
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[This is a guest post by Emily Johnson, a Texts & Technology postdoc at the Games Research Lab at UCF. Her work focuses on gameful learning, motivation, serious games, and embodied learning. You...
View ArticleUsing Video and Audio to Share Our Scholarship
[This is a guest post by George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and an associate professor at Royal Roads University, where he teaches in the MA in Learning...
View ArticleFive Things That Helped Us Survive Summer 2016
You don’t have to be Stephen Merrit to know that summer is coming to a close, so it’s about time for us to tell you about five things that helped us survive summer. Here at ProfHacker, we have a...
View ArticleHow to Use YouTube Live Streaming for Free Lecture Capture
[This guest post by Timothy A Lepczyk also also appeared on his own blog, Eduhacker, today. --@JBJ] When I first heard that Google was discontinuing Hangouts on Air, I panicked. However, that was...
View ArticleSwitching to a Tiling Window Manager, and Why You Might Want To
[This is a guest post by Nabeel Siddiqui, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at The College of William & Mary, where his research focuses on personal computers and the intersection of the...
View ArticleElection 2016: How Did Higher Ed Leaders Respond?
[This is a guest post by Robin DeRosa, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. Her current research focuses on Open Pedagogy, and how learner-driven...
View ArticleOpen Thread Wednesday
Often on Wednesday, ProfHacker hosts an open thread discussion. Sometimes a specific topic is announced, and sometimes the discussion is completely open. Please remember to abide by our commenting and...
View Article10 Things We Learned Producing a Podcast at a University
This is a guest post by Carol Jackson, the digital content strategist at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and lead producer, with Alison Jones and Karen Kemp, of the school's...
View ArticleWhat First Years Might Not Know & What To Do About It
[This is a guest post (actually, a collated series of tweets, by Anne Trubek. Trubek is Director of Belt Publishing and author of The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting--and, to her points...
View ArticleUsing Digital Archives to Teach Data Set Creation and Visualization Design
Kate Holterhoff @KateHolterhoff is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research areas include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British...
View ArticleKeybase: Crypto for (Almost) Everyone)
Encryption has been written about on ProfHacker a few different times but, in light of the really bad week we’re having security-wise, it seems like a good opportunity to look at a relatively new...
View ArticleScary Deep-Learning AI with Shelley
ProfHacker has addressed collaborative writing before, be it in Google Docs or in annotations around the web, but here’s a new one: MIT Media Lab‘s Scalable Operations project joined the party and is...
View ArticleThree Slack Bots to Try
Image from Unsplash user Joseph Chan. I’m somewhat taken aback when I mention Slack to someone in November of 2017 and am greeted with a blank look, followed by, "What’s that?" I forget that I live in...
View ArticleGamify Your Writing Group
[This is a guest post by Emily Johnson, a Texts & Technology postdoc at the Games Research Lab at UCF. Her work focuses on gameful learning, motivation, serious games, and embodied learning. You...
View ArticleUsing Video and Audio to Share Our Scholarship
[This is a guest post by George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and an associate professor at Royal Roads University, where he teaches in the MA in Learning...
View ArticleFive Things That Helped Us Survive Summer 2016
You don’t have to be Stephen Merrit to know that summer is coming to a close, so it’s about time for us to tell you about five things that helped us survive summer. Here at ProfHacker, we have a...
View ArticleOur Students Aren’t In Our Heads With Us: Teach Writing In Your Field With...
Rebecca Weaver (@WeaverRew) is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University-Perimeter College, where she teaches composition and some literature. She has published articles about teaching in...
View ArticleAccessibility, Audio Texts, and the Persistence of Print
[This is a guest post by Michelle Morgan, who is Assistant Director of Educational Technology at Yale University and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Connecticut College. Her scholarly work...
View ArticleExpand Your Writing Potential with a Smart Notebook and Pen
[This is a guest post by Kendall Giles, an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He also teaches in VT’s online Masters of...
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