Occasionally, ProfHacker will break out of our standard three-posts-per-day schedule to publicize CFPs and other events we believe would be of special interest to our readers. This is one of those times, as a very exciting tweet came across the wires earlier today.

Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University tweeted: "One Week, One Book: Help @dancohen and I publish an edited volume, "Hacking the Academy," in a week".

Following is the entire CFP, also available online:

Tom Scheinfeldt and I [Dan Cohen] have been brewing a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy. Let’s write it together, starting at THATCamp this weekend. And let’s do it in one week. [Ed. note: you do not have to be a THATCamper to participate, and all disciplines are welcome, which is why we're helping to announce it to the world.]

Can an...

In "Preparing NOW for Next Year's Job Market", Brian Croxall discussed the benefits and provided some examples of preparing your materials for next year's job market. In this post, I will discuss the enormously helpful and most highly recommended dossier and credential management service, Interfolio.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am an Interfolio user as are several other ProfHacker authors. None of us have received a thing for writing this particular post in the Chronicle space. In fact, I reckon that all of us combined have paid Interfolio several hundreds of dollars, despite having other document management services available to us from our respective institutions.

My reason for writing this post is two-fold: first, to introduce Interfolio to potential job-seekers otherwise unaware of its presence, and second, to give a little free publicity to a group that really gets it...

This post wraps up another week of ProfHackery goodness; each week we try to deliver tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

We certainly hope you found something useful from the fifteen or so offerings this time around, such as:

• Guest author Amy Earhart's post on Using NINES Collex in the Classroom.
• Speaking of classrooms, Nels provided great tips for Leading Effective Classroom Discussions on Controversial Issues, as did Amy for Modeling Civility and Use of Evidence in the Classroom. I took up less personal matters when I wrote about Using Creative Commons Licensed Material in Your Classroom.
• For the writers in the audience, Billie offered another installment in the Writer's Boot Camp series; this week was the Inspiration Edition.
• From the department of planning ahead, Erin wrote about Effective Summer Planning, while Heather...

Previously at ProfHacker, I've discussed talking about fair use in the classroom and George provided some links regarding intellectual property. All of the ProfHacker content previously found at ProfHacker.com and now here at the Chronicle carries a Creative Commons license, and ProfHacker authors are committed to providing content under such a license whenever possible. For example, on many of our own web sites you can find course material licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license or something similar.

Your mileage may vary. You may want to keep your course content entirely to yourself—after all it is your work product—and that's just fine, of course. This post isn't about that, or even about open courseware in general. For Chronicle coverage on such matters, see their articles such as "Students' Push for Open Education Meets Faculty...

This post wraps up the first week of the full ProfHacker schedule, in which we try to deliver tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education every weekday at 10am, 2pm, and 6pm EST.

As a reminder, the "we" in this instance includes the fifteen independent contributors (and guests) who band together to form this blog hosted in the Chronicle space. This past week, over 100 of you have joined us in the commenting section of our posts, and we are quite pleased to have heard from new members of the audience as well as the "old guard" from our original home at ProfHacker.com. We anticipate this trend will continue, and look forward to future discussions.

• After I introduced new authors Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Heather M. Whitney, and Ryan Cordell, they each followed up with great posts (as expected). Kathleen offered tips for How to Get More Than...

After two weeks of introductions and over thirty new posts on a wide range of topics, we want to hear from you about the sorts of "tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education" that would be of use. We ask that question weekly, in Open Thread Wednesday, in the hopes of soliciting specific topics readers would like addressed.

But since we have many new readers I thought perhaps we should just step back for a moment and say, "Hi. How are you? Are you interested in pedagogy? Productivity? Software? Software and pedagogy? Hardware and productivity? Wellness? Are you a researcher? Instructor? Librarian? Archivist? All of the above? None of the above? In the sciences? Liberal arts? Business? Communication?" You get the idea.

We aim to serve a broad community. In our previous home, we had a good sense of our community, and we want to continue ...

One of the first posts I wrote for ProfHacker was "Getting Started with Google Docs in the Classroom", and in that post I talked about the potential for using Google Docs with students, how I used it with two sections of Introductory Writing, and lessons learned for future use in the classroom. In this post, I will draw your attention to some of the new features of Google Docs and discuss how I might use these features with students when next I have the opportunity to do so.

For those of you who might not know, Google Docs is a free Web-based word processing program—actually a suite of tools (spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings). You can import documents or create new ones, then edit, save, export, and print. More importantly for my purposes in the classroom, these documents can be shared with collaborators. If the Google Docs concept is new to you, I recommend taking...

This post is a celebration. With it, we have reached the end of the author introductions and can take a moment to call attention to our fabulous guest authors, and we are now entering the first week of our regular publishing schedule. From now on, look for ProfHacker posts at 10am, 2pm, and 6pm Eastern time.

The first ProfHacker newcomer I'd like to mention is Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Kathleen is Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California. She is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press, and of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and available for open peer review online. She is co-coordinating editor of MediaCommons, and has published articles and notes in journals including the...

After spending the last two weeks easing in to our new digs at the Chronicle, everyone at ProfHacker looks forward to resuming our regular three-per-day publishing schedule on Monday. We only have one more introductory post—tomorrow morning at 10am—in which readers will learn about our two newest authors, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Heather Whitney. We will also take a moment to celebrate the fifteen different guest authors who have written posts for us—and issue a call for more.

But enough about the future. This past week I had the pleasure of introducing Natalie Houston, Nels P. Highberg, Brian Croxall, Erin E. Templeton, and Alex M. Jarvis, Jeffrey W. McClurken, and Ethan Watrall. Many of these authors followed up with a new post of their own:

• Natalie discussed the value of delegating tasks to yourself—namely, to "your tired self, your less motivated self, the self you know...

In this post you'll learn about three of ProfHacker's less-frequent but no less informative contributors: Alex M. Jarvis, Jeffrey W. McClurken, and Ethan Watrall.

Alex M. Jarvis is currently an undergraduate at Central Connecticut State University, and his role at ProfHacker is to talk about technology and classroom interaction from the perspective of the undergraduate student. Alex has a special studies major in the Digital Humanities, and while working on finishing his degree, learning several programming languages, writing a few amateur comic books, and working on a project to galvanize local geek culture, he also maintains his own web site.

Alex's posts include:

• Modeling Technology in the Classroom: A Student's Guide
• Defending RateMyProfessors.com
• Creating Workshops for Students and Faculty

Read more of Alex's ProfHacker posts, or find him on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and ...