From the Archives: Start Your Semester Off Right
Beginning-of-semester and end-of-semester posts are something of a ProfHacker tradition, as well as the setting of resolutions for the new season. (See, for instance, last year’s From the Archives:...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Academic Conferences
Conferences are an important part of many people’s academic careers: they provide the opportunity to present your research to specialists in your field; to talk with friends and colleagues at other...
View ArticleDigital Workflows for the Archives
[This is a guest post by Dan Royles, a lecturer at the University of Angers in western France, where he teaches American Studies and English as a foreign language. You can find him online at...
View ArticleWhy Not Spare a Little Bandwidth for the Archive Team?
Do you remember Seti@home? It was the first really widely loved example of a crowdsourced distributed computing project. You install a cool looking screensaver and in the background your computer...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Using Twitter
The essential ProfHacker introduction to Twitter is Ryan’s appropriately titled post, How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To). He covers all the basics, including creating your profile, using...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: All About Games
From playing games, to teaching with games, making your own games, and even gamifying your email — the ProfHacker archives have a lot to offer when thinking about games. Games in the Classroom...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: On Grading (II)
Grading student assignments is a significant feature of many academics’ workload, especially as the end of semester nears. In the years since our first round up post, From the Archives: On Grading...
View Article#TAGS: New Homepage for Twitter Archiving Google Sheet
Here at ProfHacker we’ve written quite a bit about Twitter over the years (as our archive of posts with the twitter tag reveals). One Twitter topic that we’ve addressed often is how best to maintain...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Preparing for the New Semester
It’s that time again . . . here are some tips from the ProfHacker archives. Designing/Revising Your Syllabi If you’ve only got a few minutes, check out 11 Fast Syllabus Hacks for useful updates to...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Closing Out the Fall Semester
Because of the ways academic calendars are constructed, the dates for the end of fall term classes, exam period, and final grade entry at different colleges can be spread out from late November to...
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