By Courtney Kueppers. How does a flagship university become the subject of a famous rapper’s Twitter rant? Book him for a speaking engagement, withhold $2,500 from his fee for not fulfilling his end of the deal … then wait. More...
28 février 2016
28 février 2016
An Experiment with Student Portfolio Management
By Prof. Hacker. One of the final assignments in a business writing course I teach involves having students write an action plan based on an assessment of their writing over the course of the semester. They create portfolios with the items they’ve written, reflect on the progress they’ve made and identify areas for growth. Read more...
28 février 2016
The Storm of Creativity: Meditating, Not (Necessarily) Producing
By Prof. Hacker. Kyna Leski insists that with The Storm of Creativity (MIT Press) she is not writing a self-help book. Read more...
28 février 2016
On the Importance of Process
By Amy Cavender. It’s been an interesting few months in academia, and not in a good way. Two institutions of higher education — Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland — have found themselves in turmoil. Read more...28 février 2016
Using DataBasic for Simple Data Analysis
By Anastasia Salter. I love teaching with visualized data: something as simple as running a text through Wordle (a word cloud tool) can reveal all sorts of fun things about what’s going on in a text through making patterns more visible. However, a lot of the tools for next-level data analysis aren’t particularly easy to use and can be overkill for simple lessons. Read more...27 février 2016
Accessing Your WordPress Database with Adminer
By Amy Cavender. This week, I’d like to make a brief note about another helpful WordPress plugin. Sometimes, particularly if you’re running a WordPress network, you might need to access data about your users (e.g. email address, username, registration date, etc.) That information resides in the wp_users table of your installation’s MySQL database, and it’s a relatively simple matter to export the data from that table to a CSV file that can be imported into your favorite spreadsheet application. Read more...27 février 2016
The Open Dissertation
By Maha Bali. Last week, Prof Hacker Lee Skallerup Bessette drove to Virginia Commonwealth University to livetweet the thesis defense of Laura Gogia (in some circles better known by her Twitter handle @GoogleGuacamole). The hashtag used was #GoGoDoc. Read more...27 février 2016
When the Virtual and Physical Networks Converge
By Maha Bali. While curating the keyword Networks (with Mia Zamora) for the MLA collection entitled Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models and Experiments, we were reminded not to focus solely on digital networks to the exclusion of physical/analog ones. Read more...27 février 2016
Basic Twitter Analysis with twXplorer
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. There have been a number of posts here on ProfHacker about using Twitter, particularly around archiving tweets. Our favorite method has been Martin Hawksey’s free TAGS template for Google Sheets. Read more...27 février 2016
Create a New Habit with an App
By Natalie Houston. In Three Steps for Creating a New Habit, I outlined three key elements that can help you be successful in creating a new, positive habit, whether that’s related to writing, exercise, or rest and renewal. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)