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Tools for Synchronous and Asynchronous Classroom Discussion

January 11, 2010 in Pedagogy by Julie Meloni

In this post, I discuss a few features of synchronous and asynchronous discussion models and the various tools that can help you achieve your scholarly needs—both in the virtual and physical classroom.

Tools for managing multiple class blogs

December 23, 2009 in Pedagogy by Amy Cavender

Moving away from a full-blown CMS for your courses and using blogs instead? In this post, you'll find a brief discussion of tools that can be very helpful for managing multiple course blogs without going crazy.

Using a Blog to Run Your Courses? Why You Might Consider WPMU.

December 11, 2009 in Pedagogy, Products by Amy Cavender

You're thinking of using a blog in conjunction with your courses, and you like what you see in the WordPress platform. Do you go with WordPress, or with WordPress MU?

Talking About Blogging in Tenure and Application Documents

October 6, 2009 in Life by Nels P. Highberg

How exactly do we talk about our blogging and other social networking activities in tenure dossiers and job application materials? This post offers one example and calls for more.

Writing in the Internet’s Margins

October 2, 2009 in Productivity by Brian Croxall

Over the last year, several academic manuscripts have been posted online to allow for commenting before the are ever sent to the press. ProfHacker takes a quick look at two of the tools--CommentPress and digress.it--that power such projects.

Mentoring Graduate Students Through Social Media, or How I Made it Through the Last 5 Years

September 29, 2009 in Life by Julie Meloni

After Amy recently wrote about how social media led her to Prof. Hacker, I was reminded that social media led me to graduate school in the first place. Without a doubt, I would not have started graduate school—nor would I be finishing, I don't think—without social networking. In this post I will talk about what social networking has meant to me, from the perspective of a graduate student.

Using Social Media to Network, or How I Got to be Part of Team ProfHacker

September 25, 2009 in Life by Amy Cavender

Last week George asked, "What’s been your experience with regard to social media and the academic world?" This post details one academic's experience of using social media for learning and networking.

Academics and social media: ymmv

September 15, 2009 in Life by George H. Williams

When it comes to social media and the academic world, we should remember that not everyone can--or should--adopt the same strategy. More than four years after the outbreak of 'Tribble jitters,' we're still working out exactly how new media are affecting our work and our lives. And that's okay.

Why use a blogging client?

September 10, 2009 in Productivity by Amy Cavender

A blogging client allows you to write and publish your posts from your desktop. Once that’s done, if you need the same information on another blog, just grab the post, drag it onto the name of the next blog, and hit the publish button. It's much quicker than working with web interfaces.

Thinking about WordPress Plugins?

September 3, 2009 in Productivity by Julie Meloni
Following on Ethan Watrall’s recent post, Finding the Best WordPress Themes for your Academic Needs, my intention was to write a short post about finding the best WordPress plugins for your academic needs. But that’s difficult to do when “academic needs” is a really broad topic, and your level of access to installing plugins [...]

Trying a course blog? Trying to get others to blog?

August 11, 2009 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones
Last semester, Hillary Miller tried a course blog for the first time, using Baruch College’s implementation of Wordpress MultiUser, Blogs@Baruch. Reflecting on the experience at Cac.ophony, the group blog of Fellows in Baruch’s Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Miller marvels at the relative ease of blogs vs. Blackboard, and offers new bloggers some useful insights: [...]