By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A few weeks ago, coincidentally during Day of DH 2016, it was brought to my attention that Voyant, a web-based text analysis tool, had upgraded to Version 2.0. Read more...
1 mai 2016
1 mai 2016
Research Day @AUC – do we need more such cross-disciplinary campus events?
By Maha Bali. On March 30th, the American University in Cairo held its first Research Day. The highlights included posters by graduate and undergraduate students (competing for prizes) and 2-minute research pitches by faculty (also competing for awards). Read more...
1 mai 2016
What I Learned from Student-Created Learning Taxonomies
By Maha Bali. My assignments are often inspired by things I learn about from my Personal Learning Network (PLN), and this particular assignment is inspired by several people. Read more...
1 mai 2016
5 Ways to Make End-of-Semester Grading More Enjoyable
By Maha Bali. I know I know. Enjoyment isn’t usually something we think we should be seeking about grading… Right? I had originally titled this post “how to make grading fun” but thought no one would take me seriously. Read more...
1 mai 2016
Backup and Development with Installatron
By Amy Cavender. It’s no secret that we love WordPress here at ProfHacker. It powers this blog, and many of us use it for our own personal, professional, and/or course sites. Read more...
1 mai 2016
Through Another’s Eyes: Troubleshooting with User Switching
By Amy Cavender. Last week, I introduced readers to Installatron, a tool that’s very useful for backing up and cloning WordPress installations. This week’s post continues the WordPress thread.
Many of us who use WordPress use it for maintaining a personal website and/or a professional portfolio; we’re the only users registered on our sites. Read more...
1 mai 2016
Tools for an Effective Workflow
By Amy Cavender. Many of us have favorite tools that suit our workflows well, helping us accomplish our tasks and keep track of needed bits of information. Below you’ll find a list of applications, services, and utilities that I use almost daily. Read more...
1 mai 2016
Looking for an Exchange Calendar for Mac? Try Fantastical 2.2
By Jason B. Jones. Like most of the apps Apple bundles with OS X, Calendar is very . . . eh. The best thing you can say about it is that plays pretty well with the various iDevices, and it can be used as a source of data for other calendaring apps. Read more...
1 mai 2016
Transadaptation
By Ilan Stavans. Efforts to translate a text within the same language, from, say, the French of Molière to the present-day language of immigrants in Paris, are common today. Not long ago, I got a copy of Andrés Trapiello’s faithful modernization of the entire Don Quixote, all 126 chapters. His argument is that today’s readers, especially young ones, no longer read Cervantes’s novel. Since its antiquated language might be one of the causes, why not render it it in 21st-century Iberian Spanish. More...
1 mai 2016
Introductions and Outroductions
By William Germano. What’s the opposite of an intro? If outro comes to mind, you may be riding a trend. The word shows up in student papers. People say it. People hearing it don’t ask what you mean.
The term outro is now often used to describe the ends of things — music mainly, but other forms, too. “Sympathy for the Devil” has an outro, and we know this because there is at least one YouTube tutorial to help you master it. More...
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