Tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

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“What’s for Lunch?” Pasta and Salad!

Long gone are the days when eating healthy (and eating vegetarian) meant eating raw celery and drinking a glass of water. Today’s ProfHacker column provides two easy vegetarian lunch options that move us far beyond the boring lunches of old: Tomato Salad and Pesto Pasta.

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Digital Natives? Naive!

We’re seeing increasing levels of skepticism about the idea that the generation who came of age surrounded by digital tools are fundamentally different than older generations in the way they think, learn, communicate, and express themselves.

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Creating Workshops for Students and Faculty

In January, I accepted a co-op position at Central Connecticut State University in our campus’ Instructional Technology Design and Resource Center. The plan was simple; figure out a way to inject new technologies into the classroom in a non-obvious way!

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The Creepy Treehouse Problem

Alex and Jason consider the problem of the creepy treehouse: Students’ antipathy to faculty-imposed requirements to use social media. We offer four strategies for making clear to students that your interest in their social media engagement is pedagogical, rather than personal (ew).

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Scrivener, Scrivening, Scriverastic

Guest author Ryan Cordell returns to explain the Mac-based word processor, Scrivener.

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What Is a Lecture For, Anyway?

In which Jason learns about the value of lectures from a presentation about toys.

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Calling Your State Legislators

Like all sane people, I hate making phone calls. Last week, though, a state legislator said that phone calls from constituents were the key way to get attention focused on an issue such as higher education funding. Here’re some resources for making such calls.

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The Profhacker Week in Review

ProfHacker’s traditionally late wrap-up of the previous week’s posts.

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Weekend Reading: Oscars edition

ProfHacker gets you ready for the weekend with five links plus a video.

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On the temptation to evil

Have you ever gotten some really bad advice? Not just advice that won’t work–advice that’s evil, but offered in good faith? Do tell!

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Multiple Choice Questions on Exams

Guest author Derek Bruff explains that multiple-choice questions, when properly designed and integrated into a class, can provide a useful way to assess how well students are learning concepts.

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When You Need a Substitute Teacher

If you had to immediately hand your classes over to someone else for one, two, or three weeks, would you be ready? What can we do to be ready should we not be able to teach our classes for more than a day or two?

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