Comments on: 5 Sites Your Undergrads Need to Know http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/ Tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:06:48 -0400 hourly 1 By: William Patrick Wend http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1935 William Patrick Wend Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:30:55 +0000 http://www.profhacker.com/?p=2456#comment-1935 <p>Great, I am going to show this posts to my classes the next time they are in the computer labs. Thanks.</p> Great, I am going to show this posts to my classes the next time they are in the computer labs. Thanks.

]]> By: XML, Tracking Grades, and Blogging in Your Tenure File: the ProfHacker Week in Review - ProfHacker.com http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1911 XML, Tracking Grades, and Blogging in Your Tenure File: the ProfHacker Week in Review - ProfHacker.com Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:51:22 +0000 http://www.profhacker.com/?p=2456#comment-1911 <p>[...] posted a roundup of sites your undergrads should know, suggested a way to teach them about citation practices, and asked about juggling multiple e-mail [...]</p> [...] posted a roundup of sites your undergrads should know, suggested a way to teach them about citation practices, and asked about juggling multiple e-mail [...]

]]> By: Billie Hara http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1648 Billie Hara Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:03:57 +0000 http://www.profhacker.com/?p=2456#comment-1648 <p>Over the past few years, I have introduce students to Delicious bookmarking, but I do it-- not as a part of a lesson-- but as an aside, "Oh, you might find this useful." Interestingly, the students are much more receptive to the addition of a social networking tool when it's an aside than when I've evaluated their use of that tool.</p> Over the past few years, I have introduce students to Delicious bookmarking, but I do it– not as a part of a lesson– but as an aside, “Oh, you might find this useful.” Interestingly, the students are much more receptive to the addition of a social networking tool when it’s an aside than when I’ve evaluated their use of that tool.

]]> By: Fran Barton http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1613 Fran Barton Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:57:06 +0000 http://www.profhacker.com/?p=2456#comment-1613 <p>I think Brian's comment contains wise advice - recommend sites that you <em>really</em> use, or have used. I'm doing a little induction sesh for students this week where I'll be introducing them to delicious and twitter, both of which I use regularly. I think unless you can actually model to students that "this is how I use this site, it really works and this is why...," you are on shaky ground.</p> <p>I'll also be introducing the group to the concept of RSS feeds and how useful they are, so no specific website, although I will use Google Reader to show one way of processing them.</p> <p>My first comment - I've loved this site so far, and look forward to more - thanks people!</p> I think Brian’s comment contains wise advice – recommend sites that you really use, or have used. I’m doing a little induction sesh for students this week where I’ll be introducing them to delicious and twitter, both of which I use regularly. I think unless you can actually model to students that “this is how I use this site, it really works and this is why…,” you are on shaky ground.

I’ll also be introducing the group to the concept of RSS feeds and how useful they are, so no specific website, although I will use Google Reader to show one way of processing them.

My first comment – I’ve loved this site so far, and look forward to more – thanks people!

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]]> By: Brian Croxall http://www.profhacker.com/2009/10/05/5-sites-your-undergrads-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 Brian Croxall Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:56:03 +0000 http://www.profhacker.com/?p=2456#comment-1611 <p>One of the things that I find students having a hard time doing in my freshmen literature courses is finding a quotation in a novel that they know they have seen. To get around this problem, I refer them to <a href="http://books.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Books</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Book-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=10197021" rel="nofollow">Amazon's Search Inside!</a>. With either of them, there's a decent chance that the novel will be fully searchable. And if the book isn't on one of the sites, I've found that that doesn't mean it won't be on the other. To use Amazon's service occasionally requires logging in to an account, but creating one--if one doesn't already have one--is far less onerous than scanning through all 350 pages again. I continually use these tools in this way for my own work and figure my students will benefit just as much, if not more.</p> One of the things that I find students having a hard time doing in my freshmen literature courses is finding a quotation in a novel that they know they have seen. To get around this problem, I refer them to Google Books or Amazon’s Search Inside!. With either of them, there’s a decent chance that the novel will be fully searchable. And if the book isn’t on one of the sites, I’ve found that that doesn’t mean it won’t be on the other. To use Amazon’s service occasionally requires logging in to an account, but creating one–if one doesn’t already have one–is far less onerous than scanning through all 350 pages again. I continually use these tools in this way for my own work and figure my students will benefit just as much, if not more.

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