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Category Archives: ProfHacker

An Update On Our Comments Policy

February 4, 2010 in ProfHacker by George H. Williams

Remember when we asked you to help us come up with an official comments policy? Some of you took us up on the offer! We’d like to give you about another week to contribute any edits before we officially adopt the policy.

Open Thread Wednesday!

February 3, 2010 in Open Thread by George H. Williams

What’s on your mind? How’s your semester going? Do you need advice or feedback? Do you have advice or feedback to share?

Open Thread Wednesday!

January 27, 2010 in Open Thread by George H. Williams

What’s on your mind? How’s your semester going? Do you need advice or feedback? Do you have advice or feedback to share?

Weekend Reading

January 22, 2010 in ProfHacker by Jason B. Jones

To help start your weekend, Prof. Hacker offers 5-ish links worth reading, plus a video.

Maintaining Sanity and Security: Why Use a Password Manager?

January 22, 2010 in Products, ProfHacker by Amy Cavender

We all know we should keep secure passwords, but a lot of us don’t. Maybe we’re afraid we won’t remember a password that’s really secure, and writing it on a post-it note we keep in our desk drawer kind of defeats the purpose of having a secure password in the first place. A password manager can help.

Open Thread Wednesday!

January 20, 2010 in Open Thread by George H. Williams

What’s on your mind? How’s your semester going? Do you need advice or feedback? Do you have advice or feedback to share?

Crowdsourcing Our Comments Policy

January 19, 2010 in ProfHacker by George H. Williams

We’d like you to help us craft a comments policy, and in this post we explain why and how.

ProfHacker Mixtape Results

January 19, 2010 in ProfHacker by George H. Williams

Well, that didn’t really work out as planned, now did it? I published a call for participation, and then I extended the deadline, but when all was said and done only one person actually submitted something. I’m left wondering why more readers didn’t take a stab at this. What do you think?

How to become a Better Academic? ProfHacking (Just ask Teach for America)

January 14, 2010 in Pedagogy, ProfHacker by Jason B. Jones

Teach for America says that what makes a great teacher is positivity and relentless experimentation. Those traits sound familiar . . . .

Open Thread Wednesday!

January 13, 2010 in Open Thread by George H. Williams

What’s on your mind? How’s your semester going? Do you need advice or feedback? Do you have advice or feedback to share?

Academics and Social Media: #mla09 and Twitter

January 9, 2010 in ProfHacker by George H. Williams

A great deal of Tweeting took place before, during, and after the 2009 meeting of the Modern Language Association. So… how did all those Tweets affect people’s experience of the conference? Let’s find out.

Lesson Planning for the University Classroom

January 7, 2010 in How-To, Pedagogy, ProfHacker by Billie Hara

Some professors can focus on their own research to the exclusion of teaching, they can be disorganized but brilliant, and they sometimes lecture from dated material. What these professor stereotypes fail to do—or do inadequately—is focus on student learning. Teaching in a university classroom requires preparation and a redirection of focus. The teaching is not about us; it’s about the students.