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Tag Archives: mentoring

Why Not to Set Up a Formal New Faculty Mentoring Program

October 14, 2009 in Life by Jeff McClurken

ProfHacker's series on mentoring continues with a look at some of the challenges of creating formal programs for the mentoring of new faculty within a department.

Four Points about Mentoring for the First Time

October 7, 2009 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones

About a month into my first year in current job, I became a mentor for the first time. Here are four things I wish I'd known in 2003 to make mentoring easier, plus a few resources.

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.

The ProfHacker Series on Mentoring

September 28, 2009 in Life, Pedagogy by Natalie Houston

Later this week, ProfHacker begins a series of posts on the topic of mentoring. Mentoring is one of those vague and slippery terms: sometimes you know (good) mentoring when you see or experience it; sometimes you only figure it out in retrospect.

Deploying Students as Tech Mentors

August 17, 2009 in Pedagogy by Jeff McClurken
One of the common concerns that faculty have when thinking about using digital technologies in the classroom is how much time they would need to spend in training an entire classroom of students on the same tool.  This task can be made more complicated given the varying student levels of technical expertise and comfort level [...]