The ProfHacker Week in Review

The week that was at ProfHacker:

• In a guest post, Dave Parry speculated about “The iPad and Higher Education.” Guest author Amanda Watson–an actual librarian!–explained “Hacking Your Home Library with LibraryThing.” And don’t say ProfHacker never gave you anything: guest Cory Bohon offered the “Profhacker Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X.” George wondered, as part of the “Scheduling 101″ series, what “The Ideal Academic App” would look like. (Notice actual interaction from the CEO of Tungle!)  I asked for feedback on “Re-Imagining the Student Computer Lab.” Amy promoted filters, the under-used tool within Gmail: “Using Filters to Manage Your Inbox.”
• Ethan offered “Five Easy Steps (and One Completely Crazy Step) for Surviving a Grant Proposal.” Billie gets to the point of most writing advice: “Just Do It.” Phone interviews are notoriously tricky, but Erin suggests that “Prof-Hacking the Phone Interview” is possible.  I was crabby about an unreasonably DMCA takedown notice, and offered “5 Resources on Copyright Activism” (the real moral of that story: grown-ups probably shouldn’t post YouTube clips about The Clone Wars. Sigh.)
• When things go wrong: Natalie documented the “In Case of Emergency” acronym, and guest author Heather C. Whitney thought about ways to prepare for being sick, in “When ‘Hacking’ Is In Your Lungs.”
• In standing posts: Billie served up mushroom quesadillas for lunch. In “Open-Thread Wednesday,” folks discussed  evaluations, video game adaptations, and more. And, in weekend reading, I linked to posts about libpunk mentorship, buying & selling Twitter followers, and an interesting look at information overload.

Looking back at the past few weeks, it’s clear that ProfHacker gets the best guest authors!

Have a good week out there–especially those of you with Monday off!  (Or, maybe, especially those of you *without* Monday off!)

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