The ProfHacker Week in Review

ProfHacker knocked off a little early last week, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have plenty to talk about:

• Once again, lots of tool-related posts this week: Billie rounded up mind-mapping software, Amy continued her ProfHacker 101 series on getting started with Zotero,  Julie introduced us to Creately and George offered 3 must-have bookmarklets.  I insisted that e-mail is not a tool for revision (the comments to this post show how widely disciplinarity affects even basic online habits–very cool stuff going on), and bid a fond farewell to one online calendar.
• John Jones invited us over to HASTAC for a conversation about grading, while I noted new AAUP articles about faculty governance in a time of crisis.  Brian Croxall offered timely thoughts on getting the most out of student evaluations.
• George collected some interesting articles on the need to unplug now and again.
• In her standing post, Billie Hara offered potato curry soup for lunch. According to Heather Whitney’s latest guest post, community-supported agriculture might be a good source for those spuds.

Though there wasn’t a post about it, we’d be remiss if there wasn’t at least one link here about the student protests in California, so try Angus Johnston’s blog, Student Activism,

And since I didn’t give you a weekend reading post last week, here’s one to kick off the holiday-shortened week: “Stardate 2378: A Starfleet Captain challenges a final grade,” by Miriam “The Little Professor” Burstein: The quizzes were suitable for humans and other species lacking eidetic memories.  Requiring a Vulcan to take such a quiz is illogical.  Under the circumstances, penalizing me for devoting my time to more constructive pursuits reflects a certain…small-mindedness, inappropriate in an instructor of intergalactic literature.

Image by flickr user Allan Siew / CC licensed