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Paperless Grading with GradeMark

January 6, 2010 in Pedagogy by Natalie Houston

Grading. Who wants to think about grading papers now, at the beginning of January, when the bitter end of last term might not have entirely faded from your memory? Yet the best time to consider changing the format or requirements for student work is now, before assignments are due. In this post, I'm going to discuss using Turnitin.com for receiving student work and its grading component, GradeMark, for digital grading.

Using Google Documents when others need paper

September 4, 2009 in Pedagogy, Productivity by Amy Cavender
You’ve decided that you want to reduce the amount of paper in your course and that you want your students to develop collaborative and technical skills. So (perhaps after reading Julie’s recent post?) you’ve decided to use Google Documents. The ability to check the revision history will be especially handy given that you’re teaching a [...]

A paperless classroom is a disease-free classroom

August 18, 2009 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones
Health.com has a slideshow up for college students the anxious parents of college students about the myriad health hazards associated with dorm life.  And while the slideshow may be a bit alarmist–leading with meningitis?  really?–there’s no question that dorms, and any other communal living areas of college students, can be pretty nasty places. At the risk [...]

Getting Started with Google Docs in the Classroom

August 18, 2009 in Pedagogy, ProfHacker 101 by Julie Meloni

What is Google Docs? It's a free Web-based word processing program. With Google "Docs" (and a Google Account) anyone can create or import spreadsheets and presentations in addition to documents. Once you have created or imported a document, spreadsheet or presentation, you can edit it, save it, export it, and print it to your heart's content. More importantly for my purposes in the classroom, these documents can be shared with collaborators.

Integrating, Evaluating, and Managing Blogging in the Classroom

August 13, 2009 in Pedagogy, Productivity by Julie Meloni
In a previous Prof. Hacker post, Jason Jones linked to Hillary Miller’s “Lessons from a First-Time Course Blogger”, which contains great advice such as making sure not to forget about the blog and not assuming students know everything about technology. This advice (and do read Miller’s entire post for an honest description of some [...]

What will you throw away today?

August 5, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones
My university this year has lost many, many faculty members to an early retirement program offered by the state as a cost-saving mechanism.  And while all of the faculty will be missed in their way, some are outright institutions, having taught for upwards of thirty, or even forty years. I overheard a conversation today in which [...]