This post wraps up another week of tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

We certainly hope you found something useful from our posts this week, which included:

• Guest author Traci Gardner brought us the second installation of the Teaching Carnival—Teaching Carnival 4.2—which provided a ton of great links to blog posts on teaching and issues in higher ed.
• I reported on the success of DH Answers One Week In.
• Natalie rounded up some ProfHacker highlights and produced From the Archives: Be Prepared.
• A few posts asked for reader input: Heather asked how people keep up with job appliactions and George asked for Tips For Navigating Grad Student Limbo.
• George suggested a few, then asked for reader suggestions, for Online Tools For Collaboration.
• Jason discussed Sabbaticals and Productivity-Talk, while Nels suggested we all Get Lost.
• We...

A week ago in this space, I announced Digital Humanities Questions & Answers (@DHAnswers), a community-based Q&A board you can participate in for free, sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and in collaboration with those of us at ProfHacker.

Goals of DH Answers include:

• broadening the community by introducing people to topics related to digital humanities;
• serving the needs of multiple types of community members (not limited to or by academic discipline or rank);
• creating a friendly and inviting space where people can help each other with questions about languages, tools, standards, best practices, pedagogy, and all things related to scholarly activity in the digital humanities (broadly defined).

In just a week, nearly 200 people have registered with DH Answers, and there are close to 300 responses to questions across the topics of:

• Applications, Tools...

This post wraps up another week of tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

We certainly hope you found something useful from our posts this week, which included:

• George started the week by describing his Ideal Classroom, Part 1: Information Technology and soliciting user responses.
• I was pleased to annouce Digital Humanities Questions & Answers (@DHAnswers).
• Mark refreshed A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs, which many of us have adopted (and adapted) for our own courses.
• In standing posts, Heather reminded us about the benefits of granola, while George opened a thread to discuss Personal Versus Professional Web Sites.
• Billie rounded up Writers' Boot Camp tips.
• Mark wrote An Open Letter to Part-Time Graduate Students, full of tips from others.
• Kathleen provided Five Nifty Tricks in Google Chrome and Amy Revisit[ed] Using Google ...

Several months ago, we were lucky enough to have been approached by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) with an idea for collaboration that would help broaden (and serve) the digital humanities community—many of whom we know read the ProfHacker blog and interact in the commenting community we have here. The result of that idea, put forth by ACH Vice President Bethany Nowviskie, is Digital Humanities Questions & Answers, a community-based Q&A board you can participate in for free at:

http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/

(We also suggest you follow @DHAnswers on Twitter.)

The goal of DH Answers is to create a friendly and inviting space where people can help each other with questions about languages, tools, standards, best practices, pedagogy, and all things related to scholarly activity in the digital humanities (broadly defined). No question is too small, or too...

This post wraps up another week of tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

We certainly hope you found something useful from our posts this week, which included:

• Although it came in the middle of the week, I was most excited (and shall feature it first because I can) about the developments surrounding Zotero Everywhere.
• But George started us off by describing how to Save Time and Effort by Subscribing to Products You Use Regularly.
• We had several posts about specific software: Jason asked Does Awesome Note Live Up to Its Name?, while Billie suggested Using Writer's Cafe for Writing Projects, Kathleen talked about Clean[ing] Out Your Inbox with Taskforce, guest author Meagan Timney discussed Using Mailplane to Manage Multiple Gmail Accounts, George talked about Using Text-Expansion Software to Respond to Student Writing, and (finally...

Dear readers, I believe I've done a great disservice to you all. Despite mentioning the Picnik online image editing software in two separate ProfHacker posts (Productivity Through Firefox Extensions, from back in the day when I used Firefox, and Using Google Chrome and Chrome Extensions for Speed and Productivity after I switched), I've never written about Picnik proper. I feel bad about that, because I like the application, its ability to grab photos (and send them back) from wherever you store them—Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, your computer, and so on—and the availability of an API for even more "photo awesomeness" (as they say).

Believe it or not, the core functionality of Picnik is free. You don't even have to register to use the tools; if you want to take it for a test drive, you can upload a photo, work with all the crop, resize, rotate, effects, and font tools that are ...

When Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, announced plans for "Zotero Everywhere" [UStream], one could almost hear the collective jubilant exclamations of academics across the globe. While that may seem a bit of hyperbole, I don't really know that it is—that Zotero will soon be browser independent is a pretty big deal. Add on to that the increased access to content via a read/write API instead of read-only, and we have before us the potential for significant movement in the research mangement space.

At ProfHacker, we are always looking for the tool (or tool suite) that increases our productivity and ability to do our jobs well. As academics, that means some form of research management and citation tool; for some it's Mendeley, for others it's Zotero. Amy has written "Getting Started with Zotero" (part one and part two), and George has written about Teaching ...

This post wraps up another week of tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.

We certainly hope you found something useful from our posts this week, which included:

• Several posts provided opportunities for readers to weigh in on many different topics—and you did! For example, George listed 5 Analog Tools I Can't Live Without (and Why) and readers followed up with their own list; Erin discussed Five Wardrobe Essentials for the Female Academic in the Humanities and readers weighed in; Mark talked about Hacking Your Business Card and received more comments than I would have thought, and I asked about RSS Readers that you use (if you do), since the demise of Bloglines has many people scrambling for a replacement.
• We had two great guest posts this week. Amanda Watson gave us String Theory: Reflections on Knitting as a Hobby for Hacker...

Despite the fact that the ProfHacker RSS feed at the Chronicle is, shall we say, less than desirable [but we can't do anything about it], ProfHacker is a huge fan of using RSS feeds to increase productivity.

Mark has discussed Hacking Your Library's Catalog [Using] SMS and RSS, it's part of Amy's methods for managing multiple class blogs, guest author Matt Thomas uses RSS for Managing Twitter Favorites, guest author Lincoln Mullen uses RSS for Keeping Up With Journals, and I know at least one post later this week will discuss RSS in relation to the job market.

But that's not all! In September 2009, Jason wrote a simple, informative, and quite popular post on RSS itself: Keeping Up Online: an Intro to RSS. In Jason's post, he (rightly) notes that in order to read RSS feeds, you need a feed reader (or a "news aggregator"), of which there are many options. One of those options is Google...