Profhacker.com takes as its domain pedagogy, productivity, and technology as they intersect in higher ed. Last week featured interesting posts across all three categories:
- Julie explained how to host your own website, while Ethan showed how to spruce up your academic WordPress blogs.
- It’s increasingly hard to ignore, or to resist, the allure of mobile computing. I’ve tried giving everyone in class an iPod Touch, while Julie loves her netbook.
- Ethan continues to explore alternatives to PowerPoint, this time taking up the Bee Docs Timeline. Alex points out that students can help drive the tech+pedagogy interface as well.
- The most controversial post of the week turned out to be Brian’s reflections about being yourself online, which elicited thoughtful dissent in the comments, particularly from Rana and Nels. (As someone who was first drawn to academic blogs by the Invisible Adjunct, I will always believe there’s a place for pseudonymity.)
- Not everything was technical! I confessed to some decidedly retro pedagogy, Natalie explained how to learn student names, the team collectively offered fast hacks for your syllabus, just in case anyone was procrastinating, and I took a premature look at grading rubrics.
- And not everything was teaching-related: There are things you shouldn’t say at a department meeting, and George explains how to use your calendar to remember everything, and then, once you’ve remembered, how to manage stress.
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