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3 avril 2016

Digital Distractions: Interactive Cats

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . With my semester hitting crunch time, I’ve been using a number of digital distractions for quick breaks in between grading and editing. The internet is, of course, great at providing cat pictures for those who turn to Facebook or Twitter for diversion — but there’s also a number of recent awesome cat-centric interactive works that can provide both cool models of interactivity and cuteness. Read more...

3 avril 2016

Showcasing Digital Student Work

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Digital projects have been at the center of a number of ProfHacker posts: the easy and free availability of cool tools for making things gives us all sorts of possibilities for the classroom. Read more...

3 avril 2016

Twitter Enhances Accessibility with Alt Text for Images

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . This week, Twitter announced that it has added an important function to its service, one that enhances accessibility for people who are blind or who have low vision: support for alternative text to describe images. Read more...

3 avril 2016

Open Data Button Aims to Set Data Free

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . This week, the people who brought you the Open Access Button have released the beta version of their new “Open Data Button,” a browser add-on with a simple but powerful purpose. Read more...

3 avril 2016

When Should You Reply to Email?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . An uncomfortable truth about the modern workplace is that many people are buried under a seemingly-endless flow of email. Reading it, responding to it, and managing it can take a lot of time unless you have a good system in place. Read more...

3 avril 2016

Curing the Blue Light Blues

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . As Jason pointed out recently, many of us are suffering from sleep debt — and that’s not only the amount of sleep we know we’re missing, but the additional amount of sleep we would need to move past our usual level of accustomed tiredness to something closer to optimal function. Read more...
3 avril 2016

How to Ask Great Coaching Questions

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Over the last two decades, the field of personal and professional coaching has grown and diversified. Today, the International Coaching Federation website offers a directory of coaches specializing in everything from ADD to leadership to spiritual development. Read more...
3 avril 2016

Making Beginnings Out of Endings – @DigPedLab Cairo #DigPed

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . I write this the day immediately after the end of the Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: an AMICAL institute. We had three intense days, followed by a full day unconference. We had a lot of virtual options (livestreams of keynotes and recordings of Virtually Connecting sessions here). We had fun. Read more...
3 avril 2016

Hidden Scholarship: Achievements Academics Don’t Report

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Have you ever thought of all the really important effort and work we do as academics that we actually never get an opportunity to report on as achievements. Read more...
3 avril 2016

NearPod for Class/Workshop Polling

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/profhacker-45.pngBy . Last week, Amy Cavendar wrote about using Google Forms for polling. I agree with the general direction of moving away from “clickers” that need dedicated hardware and instead using software that allows students to use their own mobile devices (phones, tablets, laptops) to respond. Read more...
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